Farage has bank accounts closed

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Jokester said:
Well, that's what this lot did:

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PlacidCasual said:
These days it's more likely he mis-gendered someone or suggested some other modern shibboleth was untrue. It needn't be the act of Government everyone major business thinks their on the right side of history for refusing services on the basis of politics now.
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Seems reality has been warped without my help.
 
Caracus2k said:
apparently you're so limited in your lateral thinking and maybe lacking in principles that you are not even able to consider that me mentioning Corbyn is exactly because *I would defend him from being treated in the way Farage claims he has been treated* despite me being far from a fan of his politics.

Because unlike you I understand that laws and regulations need to be applied consistently and with as much transparency as is practicable.

For example in this quote from the below thread where I rebuked people for condoning political violence against people and groups they didn't like
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My bold, apparently not because you don’t do the training
 
CapitalOne said:
Was it closed because of his views (unlikely) or for another reason? I don’t have the facts. Could he have tweeted about it like a manbaby for attention that there a
is a socialist plot to lock him down or shut him up? Definitely.

Edit “very right wing” isn’t dodgy? Show me where your line is!
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Do you believe being right wing makes someone inherently dodgy? someones politics shouldn't shut down bank accounts the same as communist in Britain shouldn't have their bank accounts closed.

I'm not sure why toby had his bank account closed.. Konstantin Kisin is also another that had his bank account closed, a liberal I believe.
 
Caracus2k said:
Do you have to spend much time coming up with such ridiculous analogies or do they come naturally?

Because every time my car has failed an MOT (I have owned three Fords in the past by the way) I have been given a document that explicitly stated the reasons why the MOT test had failed and was therefore able to correct the issue of issues and re submit the car to be retested
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Naturally, naturally.

So, back on topic, have we confirmed the plane crash survivor (props for that, excuse the pun) is telling the truth? And if so what he fell foul of? Or are we still in “my guy” love in conspiracy territory?
 
Mickie said:
Do you believe being right wing makes someone inherently dodgy? someones politics shouldn't shut down bank accounts the same as communist in Britain shouldn't have their bank accounts closed.

I'm not sure why toby had his bank account closed.. Konstantin Kisin is also another that had his bank account closed, a liberal I believe.
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“Very right wing”. Are we certain they were closed, or was this a bit more ephemeral? Let’s face it Toby Young is a Covid denier who thinks he represents people without asking (i.e. standing for a vote) I have the same disdain for anyone who stands on a political platform without actually standing on a political platform.
 
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Caracus2k said:
Do you have to spend much time coming up with such ridiculous analogies or do they come naturally?

Because every time my car has failed an MOT (I have owned three Fords in the past by the way) I have been given a document that explicitly stated the reasons why the MOT test had failed and was therefore able to correct the issue of issues and re submit the car to be retested
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Indeed, and as part of the account closure process you are usually given the reason (I used to run a KYC system for a bank).

In the end it's a company and not public sector, as a financial company you must comply with KYC and fraud/money laundering. If the individual will not or cannot comply then you must close the account or suffer fines from the regulators. That applies across to everyone. The bank is free to provide it's services with restrictions to limit loss (both directly with you or by being seen to be operating with you).

So the question is - is Farage attempting to remove the financial regulation that aims to ensure money from drug lords, oligarchs, warlords, murder, identity and cyber theft etc?? If people don't pander to his facilitating corruption, then cancel culture is invoked to the cry of Brexit.. and attempting to ensure that the parity laws with the EU (again making it more difficult to return to the EU or operate with EU companies as a supplier or partner.. even sell into the EU).

Farage is a joke.
 
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CapitalOne said:
So, back on topic, have we confirmed the plane crash survivor (props for that, excuse the pun) is telling the truth?
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I have been explicit is saying, from the outset of my posting in this tread, that we don't know.

But that we do know that there is an issue of Banks and other important private companies cancelling accounts for people or groups holding legal views on political and social issues

CapitalOne said:
And if so what he fell foul of? Or are we still in “my guy” love in conspiracy territory?
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Your ongoing apparent inability to understand that maintaining principles should override ones partisan political affiliations is very telling
 
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NickK said:
Indeed, and as part of the account closure process you are usually given the reason (I used to run a KYC system for a bank).

In the end it's a company and not public sector, as a financial company you must comply with KYC and fraud/money laundering. If the individual will not or cannot comply then you must close the account or suffer fines from the regulators. That applies across to everyone.

So the question is - is Farage attempting to remove the financial regulation that aims to ensure money from drug lords, oligarchs, warlords, murder, identity and cyber theft etc?? If people don't pander to his facilitating corruption, then cancel culture is invoked to the cry of Brexit.. and attempting to ensure that the parity laws with the EU (again making it more difficult to return to the EU or operate with EU companies as a supplier or partner.. even sell into the EU).

Farage is a joke.
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But he’d know that if only he’d taken my advice and done the annual mandatory training.
 
Caracus2k said:
But that we do know that there is an issue of Banks and other important private companies cancelling accounts for people or groups holding legal views on political and social issues
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Do we though? FCA regulated ones? Cancelling accounts of people who aren’t on a list of fraudsters, terrorists or money launderers? To be fair they wouldn’t be able to open an account in the first place these days. In these situations there is always the offshore UK market of course.
 
CapitalOne said:
But he’d know that if only he’d taken my advice and done the annual mandatory training.
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I'm actually finding your attitude to this terrifying.

For a second here, who gives a **** who Farage is, and what he could possibly have done, mingled with, blah blah brexit, pint, plane, boat watching etc.. If there is a CHANCE that the bank is refusing to give him a reason, when requested, as to why the account is being closed - that just in itself is a big, big, problem as we hurtle towards a cashless future.

Now if he has done something wrong, the bank have told him why, but he's just throwing his toys out the pram like he usually does because he doesn't like that he's been caught out, then yea, fair play have at him.

Problem is here, we don't know. That's what I find worrying.
 
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