The End of Cash

[Mrs Steve R]

The BBC seems to have taken up the cause, so don't expect it to hang around for much longer.

Give it a while, and everybody will be saying what a great idea it is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048lb46?

My guess is we will start to get stories of people doing dodgy deals using cash so they can't trace them blah blah blah, probably involving drugs, nobody wants to buy drugs with a debit card

[Wales-Bales]

My guess is we will start to get stories of people doing dodgy deals using cash so they can't trace them blah blah blah, probably involving drugs, nobody wants to buy drugs with a debit card

Wot, no mention of weapons of mass destruction assembled from ingredients bought down Splott Market for a fiver? Or the Child Maintenance Service being unable to collar an absent father because he paid cash for drinks down the Wynford after a one-night stand?

[Mrs Steve R]

Wot, no mention of weapons of mass destruction assembled from ingredients bought down Splott Market for a fiver? Or the Child Maintenance Service being unable to collar an absent father because he paid cash for drinks down the Wynford after a one-night stand?

I'm sure there will be a few of those too

[Wales-Bales]

I'm sure there will be a few of those too

I bet they've already drawn up a list of suspect "benefits", those Behavioural Psychologists in the Nudge Unit don't miss a trick, and they'd probably make a trip to the gas chamber sound appealing

[Mrs Steve R]

I bet they've already drawn up a list of suspect "benefits", those Behavioural Psychologists in the Nudge Unit don't miss a trick, and they'd probably make a trip to the gas chamber sound appealing

So many solutions, they can't make up the problems for them quick enough.

[Wales-Bales]

So many solutions, they can't make up the problems for them quick enough.

[Mrs Steve R]

What's that grin for?

[Wales-Bales]

So many solutions, they can't make up the problems for them quick enough.

Oh yes they can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37555025

[Mrs Steve R]

Oh yes they can

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37555025

British jockeys? an obvious target but the banks are "unwilling and incapable" to do anything about it, they must be chomping at the bit.

[blue matt]

My guess is we will start to get stories of people doing dodgy deals using cash so they can't trace them blah blah blah, probably involving drugs, nobody wants to buy drugs with a debit card

by all accounts, the " molly " dealers in the US are using prepaid mastercards for bigger deals, they hand over 50 pills and the buyer hands over a prepaid card loaded with X amount ( checked online with a mobile )

[Mrs Steve R]

by all accounts, the " molly " dealers in the US are using prepaid mastercards for bigger deals, they hand over 50 pills and the buyer hands over a prepaid card loaded with X amount ( checked online with a mobile )

Where there's a will there's a way

[blue matt]

Where there's a will there's a way

by all accounts the Police have no way to tell how much is on the card, when the dealer gets his phone call, he calls a " money man " who empties the card to somewhere else, thus even if the police go to a court and get the company to tell them how much is on the card, its gone