In this edition of News Uncut:
1: It really is crazy golf – how venue turned away my autistic son because he could only pay cash.
2: Watch an interview by Roger Guttridge, journalist at Holding The Line, with Deanna Kline, author of the book, “Vaccine” Injuries, Lies, and Deaths: The Alarming Facts About the Covid Vaccines and Helpful Resources for Healing.
3: How Phillip Schofield’s game of playing the victim is crass and insensitive.
How the drive to a cash-free society will hurt the most vulnerable – a personal experience and a warning to us all
By Laura Berrill
I HAVE a 22-year-old son who has high functioning Asperger’s and ADHD. He has been out of education for several years due mainly to the lack of suitable, special educational needs providers and, of course, the lockdown insanity.
He has carers who take him out to do various activities he enjoys while we wait for him to be given a residential educational placement, which has been offered to him but which the Local Education Agency (LEA) representative keeps turning down.
This story is about the pervasive creep towards a cashless society and how this will – and already does – impact the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society.
My son plays crazy golf at Mr Mulligans at Stevenage Leisure Park (owned by parent companies Adventure Leisure Ltd, the Burhill Group and privately by the Guinness family), which he enjoys.
Previously the sessions had been during school holidays, so it made sense to book. No problem. However, for this recent trip I called to ask if I had to book, seeing as it was term time and the receptionist said “no problem, just turn up and the carer goes free”. I sent them off with some money to pay for the golf and some food.
When the carer came back, she told me they had refused my son entry to play because they didn’t accept cash. My son was extremely disappointed. I called the manager and asked why this was and whether they realised they were discriminating against certain sections of society, like my son who, at the moment, cannot use a bank card.
I initially spoke to the Stevenage branch’s assistant general manager who said: “We opted to stay cashless post Covid because of the risk of cross contamination from the virus on surfaces”.
We have known for a very long time that Covid was airborne, so the argument does not wash.
Annoyed by this brush off, I sent the company a number of questions, asking them to clarify why they are refusing cash based on the widely de-bunked surface-spread theory and why they discriminate against people without bank cards.
In response, a spokeswoman told me that Mr Mulligans opted to become a cashless venue “in line with many other leisure operators”. The statement added that “this is to help us provide a seamless service to our customers in the smoothest and most efficient way”. Again, the spokeswoman failed to grasp that this “seamless” approach is, in fact, anything but seamless for families like mine.
The non-sequiturs continued. “We also aim to protect both our team and customers with cashless payments, in terms of safety, fraud and more,” said the statement, before adding how the company tries “to make our venues as accessible as possible”.
She offered my son two free tickets “as a gesture of goodwill...to enjoy the full Mulligans experience,” without addressing the crux of my complaint: that he and others like him will not be able to enjoy the “Mulligans experience” in the future, unless the company amends its cashless policy.
This rush towards a cashless society is not just impacting people like my son.
As an AgeUK spokesperson told News Uncut: “Many people with health conditions, disability and dexterity issues find paying with cash much easier than with a bank card or phone. It’s not as easy for someone with sight loss to use a card reader, or someone with bad arthritis in their hand to hit the right buttons on a smart phone.
“Being cut off from cash and banking services is tantamount to being excluded from society and is a risk for many more of us than is often assumed. Being able to use cash helps people on low-income budget more effectively.
“It’s time for the Government to recognise how important banknotes and coins are to all our lives and treat the cash system as the essential piece of infrastructure it is.”
Hannah Regan, Payments Policy Adviser at the British Retail Consortium, echoed AgeUK’s concerns, saying: “Cash remains an important method of payment with more than two million people entirely dependent on cash in the UK.”
Sadly, a number of companies are making it increasingly difficult for those people to pay by cash.
In recent years, many Asda stores have removed the majority of their manned tills and replaced then with self-checkouts (again, something many people with autism or physical disabilities find problematic). Worse, a large number of these tills are card-only.
On the plus side, an Asda spokesperson told News Uncut that the company still very much welcomes cash.
“Any suggestion that we’re looking to move away from cash is false. We joined a pledge led by [the consumer group] Which? to ensure that all of our stores will continue to accept cash into the future.”
The Which? pledge has been signed by a number of high street retailers and supermarkets, including Aldi, Co-op, Waitrose, John Lewis and Lloyds Pharmacy. Other major stores, including Lidl, Boots, Morrisons, Wilko’s and Tesco were at pains to stress to us that they recognise the role cash plays and they had no plans to stop accepting it.
Yet, at the same time, many stores, like Boots, Wilko and Tesco are tearing out manned tills and replacing them with large numbers of card-only self-service checkouts.
It is time for the so-called Conservative Government to wake up to this socialist creep and discrimination. And it is up to those of us with voices to make our objections heard.
I wrote this book to honour the fallen and injured
A REGISTERED nurse for 30 years and a nurse practitioner in primary care for the past five and a half, Deanna Kline says that she wrote the book “to honour the fallen and the injured” and to “stop the mocking of the injured and the censorship of the truth”.
The book is based upon Deanna’s experience of treating patients suffering from the effects of the experimental Covid injections. She saw every person whose case is mentioned in its pages.
In spite of the horror, Deanna has witnessed and reports on so acutely, she has a wealth of wisdom on how to heal and rebuild.
This is a powerful interview. You can find Deanna’s book on Amazon
Watch the full interview on HTL’s Odysee channel
CRASS AND INSENSITIVE
By Oliver May
PHILLIP SCHOFIELD promoted Government propaganda to millions every day on mainstream TV. He told millions of impressionable people to get their Covid jab. He sat two metres away from co-host Holly Willougby while the cameras were rolling and did the opposite behind the scenes.
Phillip Schofield, married with a family, had an affair with a young man.
It has been reported that he first met the runner with whom he later had this extra-marital affair when the boy was just 15. He lied to his wife and children about this affair and lied about his sexuality. He denies any wrongdoing, insisting nothing he did was illegal.
He has recently been pictured in the mainstream media hugging his mum. Pictures that scream: I am the victim.
News Uncut wonders how Matthew McGreevy, Schofield’s former lover and runner, his family, Schofield’s wife and his children are feeling this morning…
The boy was only 10 when Schofield first met him!
Referring to the discussion about a cashless society: The piece rightly and clearly raises some real and ominous concerns. But I object strongly to the author associating the rush towards a cashless society as part of a socialist agenda. There are plenty of folks on the left who are worried about this; and there are many on the right who embrace the concept. Just look at the make-up of the WEF, for goodness’ sake