Get the App and Lose Your Freedom

By Harry Hopkins

I arrived at the bus stop ten minutes before the scheduled arrival time. This was the X84 that was the ‘express’ service into Leeds from my home town. It failed to turn up. When it did arrive I had been waiting a full hour and some of the agitated crowd who were also waiting had been nursing frozen feet for much longer. As each boarding passenger asked the cause of the delays, the driver gave a shrug and a glassy look which conveyed ignorance and apathy. When my turn came I hastened up the stairs so that I could enjoy the views as the ‘express’ hurtled into town at breakneck speed – as if.

Sitting comfortably I couldn’t help notice the adverts pasted on the bus walls which exhorted passengers to get the ‘APP’. This marvel of the latest technology was really something and was described thus:

‘Download our updated First Bus app for improved live bus tracking, journey planning and search features. The First Bus app is the smarter way to catch the bus. You’ll never have to worry about losing your ticket or forgetting your change, as you can buy and store tickets on your phone. Just scan each mobile ticket when you hop on board and you’re ready to go. Running late? No problem! Using real-time information, the First Bus app lets you track your bus live on a map – so you’ll know exactly where it is and when it’ll arrive. You’ll also know how many wheelchair spaces and empty seats there are, allowing you to easily plan your journey.’ (https://www.firstbus.co.uk/buy-tickets/ways-pay/first-bus-app)

All very innocent and helpful and designed to give a wonderful service to the paying customer. What’s not to like? Well, quite a lot actually. What this ‘APP’ fails to convey to the gullible, trusting majority, who fail to see the plans being laid for the Great Reset, is just how this APP is a component on the road to a society in which we are all required to carry a ‘mobile wallet’ in the form of a smartphone. If the Great Resetters get their way, without a mobile wallet we will be non-persons and will not be able to take part in society. With the wallet everything about our lives will be recorded and monitored to make sure we are compliant citizens. Freedom to choose will be a concept that is only a fond memory as we become subservient parts of the mass that is manipulated to the will of those who have the power. Am I raving? I think not.

Aside from the health passport implications, the digital currency and the strict carbon usage measurements that will be assessed on an individual basis, there will be strict monitoring of where we are at any given moment and how it complies with limits imposed on us with regard to the 15 minute cities and limited travel allowances.

A closer look at the First Bus APP (for those of us with eyes to see) reveals the following:

‘You’ll never have to worry about losing your ticket or forgetting your change.’

Tickets will be non-existent, so the possession of a smartphone will be mandatory in order to get on board. Public transport will be the only way many people will be able to go places on account of the war on motorists that is being ramped up. No smartphone, no public transport, no movement. You won’t have to worry about ‘forgetting your change’, this being coded language and ‘nudge messaging’ that cash is an outdated commodity and will be replaced by a digital currency.

‘You can buy and store tickets on your phone. Just scan each mobile ticket when you hop on board and you’re ready to go.’

But without this technology you most certainly are not ready to go. Even if you can go, you will have credits and limits as to frequency and destinations and these will form part of your allowance in keeping with your carbon footprint. But don’t worry about any interaction with the driver that might pass for the niceties and social interaction of a civilised society. Scan your phone to a driverless bus and technology will do the rest.

‘Running late? No problem! Using real-time information, the First Bus app lets you track your bus live on a map – so you’ll know exactly where it is and when it’ll arrive. You’ll also know how many wheelchair spaces and empty seats there are, allowing you to easily plan your journey.’

If you can track the movements of a bus, complete with vacant seats and arrival times with the technology in your pocket, it goes without saying that an alternative objective behind this technology is to track YOU and to monitor your every move, where you are, what you’re doing and whether or not it meets with authoritarian approval and if not qualifies for a sanction. It would appear that ultimately the simple activity of boarding a bus and going to a demonstration would be a thing only those of a certain age could tell their grandchildren about.

In conclusion. By a simple act of hopping on a terribly late bus and reading the advert for their latest ‘APP’ I think I’ve been given a glimpse into the future. Am I conspiracy theorist or have I taken leave of my senses after having experienced the madness of the last three years? You be the judge. But like very many people, I can see where this technology will lead us if we don’t do something to rein it in. The technology in your pocket is becoming your own worst enemy.