Sunlit Uplands
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Clouds and their silver linings
It's possibly the first time he said something I'd agree with. The current lot of Tory politicians are useless and they have mismanaged the UK.
It's not an adjective you'd ordinarily expect to find in a sentence preceeding the name of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Has The Buffoon handed his phone over yet? Or is no-one arsed anymore?
On another front, instead of Rishi stopping the boats, it might be easier to force The Buffoon to have the snip. It's hard to fathom which has the greater effect on UK population.
He's "lost" the password to it
Hey, don't be so cynical! These things DO happen. At least it hasn't gone over the side of a North Sea ferry, to be lost forever.....just yet!
Can't we just lock him up and "lose" the key?
Can someone please do everyone a favour and off Farage, sick of the cunt.
Irritating as he can be he's brought to light an important matter. It can't be right to cancel a bank account because you don't agree with someone's views. Apparently there have been thousands of accounts cancelled without explanation or recourse.
I second that. The whole thing is scandalous. If you think it's OK for them to do it to someone you happen not to like, you'll be next.
I bet the frog faced, victim playing, spawn of the Mail was on the side of the bakery in the whole gay wedding cake saga.
Should banks be closing accounts because of political beliefs? Probably not. But if I was a tradesman who went to quote up a job and there was nazi memorabilia all over the place I would refuse their custom. Like all humans, I’m a bit of a hypocrite. The difference to the wedding cake scenario, Coutts haven’t stopped taking his business due to a protected characteristic.
Everyone who is up in arms over it are also the same lot who have the point of view that the market should dictate how things are run. So Farage can do one and I hope he rots on the streets.
There's no "probably" about it. Allow that and Orwell's "1984", with the thought police and the rest, becomes a reality. The real difference between this and the wedding cake business is that a bank account is a necessity whereas a wedding cake from a specific bakery is, er, not.
For most of my career I worked in special education admin, saw and had to try and cope with the damage that a market-led approach did to vulnerable kids and families (and those of us trying to do more with less for them every day) so I can assure you the first sentence of your final para.is wildly off the mark.
For most of my career I worked in special education admin, saw and had to try and cope with the damage that a market-led approach did to vulnerable kids and families (and those of us trying to do more with less for them every day) so I can assure you the first sentence of your final para.is wildly off the mark.
Banking at Coutts is not a necessity either. He was offered an account elsewhere according to some. Back to my Nazi scenario, another trader may not give a shit and still do the work.
The bank kicking him out for being for being a cunt when they act like cunts themselves is laughable. The banks are part of one of the most despicable industries out there praying on the poor. Even now they are preying on mortgage holders under the guise of higher rates whilst taking in mega money. Like those energy twats have done over the last few years.
There also hasn’t been any other furore over other groups/charities having their accounts closed. Just this fucking weasel’s. The biggest shouters and screamers include the frog, Braverman and Sunak.
In short, fuck the banks, fuck capitalism, fuck the tories.
I don't think his bank account was closed just because of Brexit. I also think he didn't have enough money. Don't forget that it was only a short while ago that he was telling anyone who would listen how skint he was.
Obviously it doesn't make it right that they even mentioned Brexit, but they were within their rights to close the account. I mean, Coutts is a specialist bank. If I walked in there and asked to open an account I'd be refused.
What may have been misreported slightly is that he would have been offered a different account, no matter what he says. It is written into law that everyone is entitled to a bank account. Everyone is not entitled to whichever one they want, but they can have one. The banking system can't make you a non-person.
Obviously it doesn't make it right that they even mentioned Brexit, but they were within their rights to close the account. I mean, Coutts is a specialist bank. If I walked in there and asked to open an account I'd be refused.
What may have been misreported slightly is that he would have been offered a different account, no matter what he says. It is written into law that everyone is entitled to a bank account. Everyone is not entitled to whichever one they want, but they can have one. The banking system can't make you a non-person.
If what you think is correct does seem strange that senior executives are resigning over it doesn't it?
Surely the criteria for operating a bank account is a financial risk assessment not a 'values' judgment.
Man of the people? He went to a Private school and got his first City job through an old school tie friend at a round at a private members golf club. Classic working class rags to riches story, it ain't.
I know that, but he likes to come across as a man of the people who looks after the working class.
I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
The amount of people who've been continuously hoodwinked by this agent of the illuminati is breathtaking. It's even weirder now the country is firmly in the bin. It's all still someone else's fault somehow. The outrage loudest from the arseholes who broke everything. Like a spoilt bastard kid moaning that the Xbox they just pissed in isn't working.
Him and his crony’s need kerbing American History X style.
The execs resigned because the bank made the wrong commercial decision. Essentially the decision backfired, because the decision to exclude Farage has led to more reputational damage than keeping him would have done.
Businesses can ultimately choose who they do business with, and they are allowed to base this on things like whether the customer would cause reputational damage.
If a pub, for example, started having a load of arseholes going in, so much so that other people don't want to go there, then they are free to bar the arseholes. That is excluding customers for reasons of reputational damage.
Now I personally doubt that many people who wish to (and are allowed to) bank at Coutts would care less if Farage was a customer there, but that's where the bank has made a big error.
One could say that banks are different, because you have to have a bank account, and it's true that you do have to have one. But the law provides for this. Everyone has a right to access to banking. Everyone does not have a right to whatever account they want, at whatever bank they want.
