by Rhoda Wilson, Daily Expose:
At the same time local governments in the UK are attempting to implement 15-minute cities a top banker claims the rollout of a digital ID “super app” is inevitable. Both are dystopian control tools and neither is inevitable.
It’s not only in the UK that cities are signing up for the 15-minute prison concept. Edmonton in Canada, for example, is also planning to implement the draconian control structure needed to restrict residents’ rights and freedom of movement.
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The UK government will eventually roll out a “super app” that houses each citizen’s combined economic footprint, from credit ratings to know-your-customer details, a top banker has predicted. This economic digital ID would aim to follow in the footsteps of the swift and widespread adoption of the UK government’s NHS health app.
The NHS app was first launched by the UK government in January 2019 as a “one-stop shop of the health data for each UK citizen.” The UK’s financial sector has taken note of the NHS app’s “popularity” and one top banking official predicts that the launch of an equivalent digital ID for UK citizens’ economic data is inevitable.
Referring to this “super-app” that could carry all of the financial data of each UK citizen, Chair of UK Finance Bob Wigley said: “This will be the year that we finally persuade the banking system that we need an economic digital identity system, just like the NHS app.”
Speaking at the New Digital Assets and Money Symposium conference in the City of London on Tuesday, he added: “This financial app will be personal and attached to each citizen as we need a wider fully digital economic identity programme.”
Wigley is not telling the truth. It is not inevitable and we don’t need it.
In the video below, UK Financial Preparedness gave a round-up of bizarre and concerning news from around the world relating to the dystopian and anti-human agenda. He begins with the above report followed by a report about 15-minute cities in the UK. It’s not difficult to imagine how an economic digital ID and the restriction of movement using the 15-minute cities concept will seamlessly merge into one.
If the video above is removed from YouTube you can watch it on Rumble HERE.
Last year we published an article on the proposed plans by Oxfordshire County Council which included 15-minute neighbourhoods and low-traffic neighbourhoods in Oxford. Oxford is one of the 1,143 cities and local governments around the world that have joined C40’s ‘Cities Race to Zero’ – cities whose leaders are “working urgently toward a decarbonised economy.” C40 is a global network of mayors “taking urgent action to confront the climate crisis.” There is of course no climate crisis and a “decarbonised economy” is psychobabble, which when translated into plain English, means they want to tax us more and raise the cost of living while at the same time removing our rights and freedoms.
The 15-minute cities concept isn’t based on democratic principles of people deciding together or agreeing on an idea. The reality is, as James Corbett said on a recent episode of The Corbett Report, we are talking about city councils starting to take control and starting to herd people into carefully controlled spaces.
As well as Oxford, other cities in the UK are jumping in on the bandwagon. Canterbury has published plans to divide the city into 5 “traffic zones.” London is planning the expansion of ultra low emission zones (“ULEZ”). Bristol and Sheffield Councils have signed up to the plans to restrict freedom of movement within the cities. Swansea Council has also confirmed plans to become a 15-minute city. Lancaster is attempting to sell their dystopian 15-minute neighbourhood plan by comparing it to “becoming like Amsterdam.” And Scotland has published plans to implement 20-minute neighbourhoods nationwide.
But the British are fighting back. On Wednesday, the Echo reported that the Southend Council has ruled out ever signing up for a 15-minute city scheme. And on 9 February, in the House of Commons Nick Fletcher, Member of Parliament for Don Valley, called for MPs’ time to be set aside “for a debate on the international socialist concept of so-called 15-minute cities and 20-minute neighbourhoods.”
“Ultra low emissions zones in their present form do untold economic damage to any city, however, the second step after these zones will take away personal freedoms as well,” he said. “Sheffield is already on this journey and I do not want Doncaster, which is also a Labour-run socialist council, to do the same.”
Further resources:
- UK official ‘super app’ for citizen economic data rollout inevitable, says top banker, Yahoo Finance, 7 February 2023
- 15-minute city plans to be unveiled for the West Midlands, Stourbridge News, 8 February 2023
- The 15-Minute City: A Climate Solution? Or Just an ‘Excuse for More Control’? Children’s Health Defense, 8 February 2023
- Video: Welcome to C40 Cities, Richard Vobes, 1 February 2023 (10 mins)
- Video: 15 Minutes Cities – UK Column News Report (extracted from UK Column News 10 February 2023), Richie Reports UK (8 mins)
15-minute city project is preparing to help Edmonton reach 1.25 million people
The following was originally published on 27 January 2023 by Western Standard’s Alberta Report
It appears the City of Edmonton, Canada, wants to be a 15-minute city for residents.
District Planning is a multi-year project to build a “community of communities — small towns in our big city,” where people can meet many of their daily needs within 15 minutes of where they live in Edmonton.
“When I envision an Edmonton for everyone, I picture a city whose form makes the lives of people living in it easier. I picture neighbourhoods designed to reduce energy consumption for all, and I think of vibrant communities with active streets and citizens,” City of Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said in his policy campaign.
“Over the past year and a half, some Edmontonians have changed the way they work, and where they work. As this shift becomes more permanent, we know more people will spend more of their time in their own neighbourhoods instead of commuting across the city.”
Sohi said he believes he needs to create a city that supports this and provides local amenities important for both business and leisure. The city has listed some maps on its website.
“That is why I support the city’s planning goal of creating 15-minute districts, ‘small towns in our big cities,’ which will allow all of us to live locally, accessing shopping and amenities within 15 minutes,” Sohi said.
According to city documents, the 15-minute city project is preparing to help Edmonton reach 1.25 million people.
An unaccredited map of Southeast England was shared on Twitter recently which got the conversation started because it had the word “Edmonton” on it as people failed to recognise it’s a map of the UK.
