Is It Possible To Phase Out The Old Bangers And Mash?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1661639/cash-phased-out-five-years-banks-atm-cards-online-banking/amp
TBH I'm not bothered either way but for now I do use cash, mainly because that's how I keep track of my day to day spending, I also don't like having a 95 page bank statement with every tuppenny halfpenny item on it. What do we think?

[Gromit]

They are not phasing out cash.
Just that no one will have any money by the time this useless Government have done trouncing the economy.

[Canary42]

My views have already been covered in previous threads, but I do tend to agree re lengthy bank statements (although I don't think I've managed 95 pages yet LOL).

[barry1010]

I don't get paper bank statements

[ToraToraTora]

who mentioned paper bank statements?

[Hopkirk]

Sorry, what's cash?

[barry1010]

If you don't get paper statements why are you bothered by a long bank statement?

[Bazile]

I hope not .
My local chippy only accept cash

[ToraToraTora]

barry: "If you don't get paper statements why are you bothered by a long bank statement?" - because it's a pain to find anything and you have to page through it.

[ToraToraTora]

It would be a great anti crime measure mind. Money laundering would be much more difficult for example.

[barry1010]

I bought something in a shop a while back and paid with my credit card. A few weeks later it broke and I couldn't find the receipt, but they accepted the transaction on my credit card statement as proof of payment so I got a full refund. It would have been my bad luck if I'd paid in cash.

[davebro]

I stocking up on wampum.

[tomus42]

It will become harder to use cash. Some places won't take it now. I don't know if it will go altogether though.

[ynnafymmi]

Up here in Scotland if we ever get indendence(ho-hum),we will all be looking out our old Monopoly sets from the attic.The Monopoly money will be worth a lot more than the official Scottish currency,thats for sure.

[Ken4155]

Wouldn't be as much fun collecting off the bookies trackside when you've had a tasty winner. Nothing better than watching the bookies faces when they're reaching into their satchels for a thick wad of the folding stuff :-)

[ynnafymmi]

@14.21.I wouldnt know,Ken.Ive been following your horse-racing tips for the past five years.

[Ken4155]

Pity you didn't follow my football bets when i won £3,107.90 earlier this month, fanny.

By the way, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record, i don't do tips. If i was always successful when placing bets, i would. But you'd have to pay for them

[ynnafymmi]

No probs,old boy.Sorry if i rattled your cage.

[Ken4155]

Now that you have rattled my cage; you can't have been 'following' me that closely. I gave you 5/1 and 7/1 winners on Thursday evening. For free!! :-)

[FatticusInch]

Do you start these diversionary threads on purpose, as Gromit alluded to last week?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1808372.html

[Old_Geezer]

Authorities do what they want without giving a guano about the public. But anyone with any sense should fight it 'tooth & nail'.