I’m continuing to watch this thread with interest. My mother is following a strikingly similar trajectory to that of your father. Last year when she visited me, I took her into the local town for lunch and she lost her mind when I parked the car and opened the Ringgo app to pay for the parking. Something about the government extorting money and tracking my vehicle movements. Then when it came to paying for lunch, she insisted on paying but the place didn’t accept cash. Cue a huge scene with her going off on a rant to the poor waitress about how a cashless society was going to be the end of all of our freedoms. I had to make profuse apologies and usher her out of there. She doesn’t insure her car, it has also been reported as exported. She doesn’t drive her car, she ”travels” in it. She no longer pays utility bills and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the courts catch up. Earlier this year she sent me a handwritten letter with a wax seal, urging me to give up my job with a large airline and speak to some of her reporter friends to expose the chemical spraying conspiracy as an insider.
The really sad part is that she has cashed in her substantial final salary pension after 35 years in the public sector, totalling almost 7 figures and handed most of it over to some conman who is acting as her ‘advocate’ when asserting her rights as a ”living woman”. I have reported this to the police, but as she has not been deemed incompetent and the money has been handed over by mutual agreement, there’s not a damn thing they can do about it. I have reached out to the police, action fraud and others but nobody can help. It’s a hopeless and very sad situation which I am powerless to influence. Mental illness is a terribly despondent thing to deal with, but those who actively target and wilfully exploit the ill really are the lowest of the low.
