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Sunlit Uplands

Given what's happening in this country, what's happening in the world, the fact that this cunt is dominating sections of the media is insane.

As reported for about an hour this week, child poverty in this country, the 5th biggest economy in the world, is worse than ever. But, never mind, Farage, the cunt. Who is probably earning off this has become a beacon for justice?

You cunts, who are obvious, need to have a look at yourselves.
 
Saw an interesting video that said, that if all the people that voted in 2016, that are still alive, voted again today the same way, it'd go the other direction.
 
Wasn't the issue that Farage had the account for ages, so his argument was you can't make the excuse of not enough money for threshold now because I've had no money for ages.

Anyways, the omg it'll be like 1984 lot can wind down, it happens a lot to lots of ppl just that Farage has mates in high places and kicks up a fuss occasionally to stay relevant.
 
Irrelevant. The fact that it happens to others as well doesn't make it right. A bank account is a necessity nowadays and the right to one is recognised in law. Banks should not be interfering with that because of a customer's political views, whether it be Farage or whoever else. It's not up to them to act as some kind of thought police.
 
Irrelevant. The fact that it happens to others as well doesn't make it right. A bank account is a necessity nowadays and the right to one is recognised in law. Banks should not be interfering with that because of a customer's political views, whether it be Farage or whoever else. It's not up to them to act as some kind of thought police.

But the law gives us the right to basic banking services, not the right to open any account at any bank.

That said, those decisions are generally made on financial history, and I rather doubt that Farage would share the profile of most people who have basic bank accounts.

However, these are private companies. All private companies can make decisions based on reputational risk. As long as people have access to what the law entitles them to, why should banks be any different to other private companies?

It's fairly clear that they made the wrong decision here, but I would still just about fall on the side of them being able to make that call.
 
But the law gives us the right to basic banking services, not the right to open any account at any bank.

That said, those decisions are generally made on financial history, and I rather doubt that Farage would share the profile of most people who have basic bank accounts.

However, these are private companies. All private companies can make decisions based on reputational risk. As long as people have access to what the law entitles them to, why should banks be any different to other private companies?

It's fairly clear that they made the wrong decision here, but I would still just about fall on the side of them being able to make that call.

The answer to that bolded question is that, if one bank's permitted to withdraw services from a given individual, there is then no way to prevent the rest of the banking sector from doing the same thing to them, as indeed seems to have happened to Farage. As long as there is a legal right to basic banking services (which there needs to be in this day and age) the law has to apply to all banks in the same way, and that wouldn't be the case if Coutts were held to be within their rights but some other bank further down the line wasn't.
 
But basic banking services were not withdrawn. The Coutts account is not considered a basic bank account, and that service is provided within that group by Natwest, with whom Farage was offered an alternative service.
 
But basic banking services were not withdrawn. The Coutts account is not considered a basic bank account, and that service is provided within that group by Natwest, with whom Farage was offered an alternative service.

...which wasn't a business account but a personal one. Unless you're arguing that there's no difference between the two, in which case why offer both?
 
I know that, but he likes to come across as a man of the people who looks after the working class.
Man of the people......????????
Looks after the working class......??????

'Kinell!!!!!! He's a right wing cunt who did so much to visit the disgraceful br*x*t on this country, and loves sucking up to the likes of Trump/Johnson.
 
One of the first things my accountant told me when I was a kid was that there's no difference between a personal and a business bank account, legally. Just the charging mechanism.
 
That's not what we were told studying for the company secretary accounts paper I had to pass in the 90s. I can't recall all the details but there was stuff about your personal finances being at greater risk if you didn't separate the accounts from one another.
 
We were told different if you want to avoid making your personal finances vulnerable to business creditors. Maybe things have changed since.
 
Man of the people......????????
Looks after the working class......??????

'Kinell!!!!!! He's a right wing cunt who did so much to visit the disgraceful br*x*t on this country, and loves sucking up to the likes of Trump/Johnson.
I didn't say he was one, I said he likes to come across as one.
 
I didn't say he was one, I said he likes to come across as one.
I never suggested you did say that, mate. I was just venting about bastards like him, with their bullshit 'man of the people', 'good bloke' shtick that fooled too many idiots before. If people cannot see him and his ilk for the poisonous cunts they really are, they should get down to Specsavers.
 
Does anyone doubt that Nadine Dorries is the worst MP ever? And I mean ever.

Think about some of the cunts we've had lately; Johnson, Mogg, Dorries, Williamson, Hancock, Patel, Braverman, who votes for these gobshites?

And she must be the worst by miles!

She's an obvious class traitor yet some weirdos still persist in following her. Not bothered with her constituency in over 2 years yet some sheep would re-elect the twat. Madness.
 
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