Also in the News - Part 2

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

WTF has the daft **** done now?  I'm guessing something to do with payments from Russia.

 

At least he's not drawing attention to it

FYP.

[Bellend Sebastian]

21 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

FYP.

Come on, let's maintain at least some air of mystery!

 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the number of folk who are vocal about how they think he's being victimised because of his politics outnumber those that assume he's done something bad by quite a lot

[Lionator]

You don't just have your bank accounts shut down. There's obviously more to it.

[leicsmac]

10 minutes ago, Lionator said:

You don't just have your bank accounts shut down. There's obviously more to it.

Of course, but Farage knows he doesn't have to say what really is, just instead spin a story of "truth" that those who believe him blindly will buy into.

 

In this digital age, that's all he needs.

[iniesta]

Banks cannot exile one of the country’s most prominent political voices. It is not in the remit of banks to decide who can and who cannot operate in this country. Is having a bank account not a fundamental human right? Sovereign is he who decides on the exception…

[Lionator]

1 minute ago, iniesta said:

Banks cannot exile one of the country’s most prominent political voices. It is not in the remit of banks to decide who can and who cannot operate in this country. Is having a bank account not a fundamental human right? Sovereign is he who decides on the exception…

More than likely Farage is lying so that he can make his merry men think that the world is against them. Putin, Trump etc they’re all at it.

[Lionator]

I think all of us can agree that unmitigated open border to asylum seekers is untenable, especially from countries like Albania who are not at war. However we can also agree that performative expensive nonsense like sending people to a deprived third country with a terrible human rights record is not the solution. 

[Zear0]

20 minutes ago, iniesta said:

Banks cannot exile one of the country’s most prominent political voices. It is not in the remit of banks to decide who can and who cannot operate in this country. Is having a bank account not a fundamental human right? Sovereign is he who decides on the exception…

No

[Super_horns]

Sure certain papers and media outlets will be all over this!

 

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-air-force-unlawfully-discriminated-against-white-male-recruits-in-bid-to-boost-diversity-inquiry-finds-12911888

[Daggers]

5 hours ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

WTF has the daft **** done now?  I'm guessing something to do with payments from countries we're not supposed to be doing business with.

 

At least he's not drawing attention to it

It’s clearly Pt.1 of a new grift. 
 

Expect him to be selling monkey pictures for a legal fund to the brainless very soon. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

18 minutes ago, Daggers said:

It’s clearly Pt.1 of a new grift. 
 

Expect him to be selling monkey pictures for a legal fund to the brainless very soon. 

The dodgy financial adviser persona really works on people doesn't it?

 

Incredible really 

[leicsmac]

Next step: "Political prisoner" and "#FreeNige".

[leicsmac]

As an aside, another example of why this digital age is manna from heaven for the grifter.

[Jon the Hat]

9 hours ago, Lionator said:

You don't just have your bank accounts shut down. There's obviously more to it.

Banks can choose who they have as customers, and often choose not to have a customer who they perhaps don't like politically.  

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Banks can choose who they have as customers, and often choose not to have a customer who they perhaps don't like politically.  

Multiple banks at the same time?

 

That then begs the question as to why do this now, and not last week or next month.

[Jon the Hat]

3 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Multiple banks at the same time?

 

That then begs the question as to why do this now, and not last week or next month.

Well no, he was told his accounts would be closed by one bank (Coutts by the sounds of it) and then has applied to other high street banks who declined him an account due to their PEP policies.  I am sure there is a private bank out there who will welcome his business.

 

Banks often close accounts - especially for people who live overseas.  My wife had her Natwest account closed due to lack of activity.  Presumably they also review customers who are political to see if they want to be associated with them.

Edited 30 June 2023 by Jon the Hat

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, Jon the Hat said:

Well no, he was told his accounts would be closed by one bank (Coutts by the sounds of it) and then has applied to other high street banks who declined him an account due to their PEP policies.  I am sure there is a private bank out there who will welcome his business.

Then it sounds like there is a good reason for the banks to refuse him service and this is about preventing him the opportunity to launder dodgy cash, rather than any political motive.

[Jon the Hat]

Just now, leicsmac said:

Then it sounds like there is a good reason for the banks to refuse him service and this is about preventing him the opportunity to launder dodgy cash, rather than any political motive.

PEP is literally about political motive.  They don't like his politics and choose not to be associated with him.  Their choice.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

PEP is literally about political motive.  They don't like his politics and choose not to be associated with him.  Their choice.

https://www.newbanking.com/articles/pep/

 

A PEP (Politically Exposed Person) is an individual who has a high-ranking job in a government or some other type of political position. In other words, it’s a person who possesses a certain form of political and institutional power.

Because of that power they’re considered high risk in relation to money-laundering, blackmail, bribery and other types of corruption – both voluntary and involuntary.

 

I don't see how this is to do with his personal politics, instead more about preventing corruption.

[urban.spaceman]

First they came for Nigel Farage, but I did not speak out, for I was not Nigel Farage.

 

Instead I held the door open and pointed at Nigel Farage.

Edited 30 June 2023 by urban.spaceman

[Lionator]

4 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Well no, he was told his accounts would be closed by one bank (Coutts by the sounds of it) and then has applied to other high street banks who declined him an account due to their PEP policies.  I am sure there is a private bank out there who will welcome his business.

 

Banks often close accounts - especially for people who live overseas.  My wife had her Natwest account closed due to lack of activity.  Presumably they also review customers who are political to see if they want to be associated with them.

But surely it’s a private matter? And while Farage is not a palatable person, he’s hardly bad enough for them to do that. 

[HighPeakFox]

42 minutes ago, Lionator said:

But surely it’s a private matter? And while Farage is not a palatable person, he’s hardly bad enough for them to do that. 

I suspect they know stuff we don't...

[Lionator]

5 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I suspect they know stuff we don't...

Fingers crossed

[Grebfromgrebland]

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Maybe because he takes money from Russia Today and other sanctioned people.

 

The fact we've let an enemy directly interfere in our politics and government is a stain on this country's history that's as big 1066.

 

Yet because it involves people life Boris and farage we're ok with it.

[Daggers]

Funny how the “It’s their business they can do what they like” crowd support the idea of landlords popping gollywogs up in a pub but not support banks removing accounts from shady Russian puppets. Odd that.