- “Nigel Farage playing victim in NatWest row, says Emily Maitlis” – Emily Matlis, a former BBC Newsnight anchor, says the former UKIP leader has somehow turned “utter entitlement into victimhood” over closure of Coutts account, reports the Telegraph.
- “Coutts CEO Peter Flavel resigns” – Coutts Chief Executive Peter Flavel has resigned, less than 48 hours after his boss Alison Rose also quit over the Coutts-Farage bank scandal, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “U.K. banks make free speech commitment after NatWest-Farage row” – The heads of Britain’s largest banks, in a meeting with the Financial Services Minister, have pledged their commitment to the principle of “non-discrimination based on lawful freedom of expression”, reports Reuters. So will they be offering Farage an account?
- “Rishi Sunak fails to back NatWest Group Chairman” – Rishi Sunak refused to endorse NatWest’s Chairman ahead of key meetings at which he will be confronted by investors for the first time since the debanking scandal broke, says the Telegraph.
- “The customers who had their bank accounts shut without any explanation” – This is Money has spoken to dozens of people whose bank accounts were shut abruptly without any explanation.
- “Dame Alison’s ousting lifts the lid on banking’s wider moral pickle” – Banks today operate within a vast, creaking construct of regulation designed to avoid reputational disasters. In the hands of over-zealous, ‘purpose-led’ middle-managers, it’s bound to go wrong, says Martin Vander Weyer in the Spectator.
- “Coutts has forgotten what the job of a bank is” – Dame Alison Rose’s departure is a major achievement, but the reluctance is a symptom of the problem, says Charles Moore in the Spectator.
- “It’s not just banks forcing views on people – it’s many of our institutions” – The Farage-Coutts scandal is just the tip of a very big, ugly iceberg, says Matthew Goodwin in the Sun.
- “Forget Nigel Farage and Coutts – banks have been locking ordinary people out of accounts for years” – Debt adviser, Amy Taylor, says banks have been quietly closing accounts without giving their customers any reasonable explanation for decades, reports the Guardian.
- “The Farage and Coutts case shows that low decouplers threaten liberal democracy” – Many liberals have been unable to separate dislike of Nigel Farage from his liberal-democratic rights, says Thomas Prosser.
- “Nigel Farage has landed a blow against woke capitalism” – The Coutts ‘debanking’ scandal has exposed the authoritarian instincts of our capitalist elites, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Farage clashes with Nick Robinson on Today Programme” – Nigel Farage has a heated clash with Nick Robinson on the Today Programme, after Robinson suggested that the NatWest saga might be a pretext for Farage to return to frontline politics, reports Guido Fawkes.
- “Banks’ closure of racecourse bookmaker accounts described as a ‘scandal’” – Numerous racecourse bookmakers have revealed they have had accounts closed by banks without explanation, reports Racing Post.
- “Chase shuts down bank accounts of Mercola and key employees” – Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and owner of Mercola.com, warns of political targeting and the potential implications for social credit systems and digital currencies after his JP Morgan Chase bank accounts were closed with no explanation.
- “Covid’s lost pupils ‘will cause huge crimewave’” – Ministers’ failure to get children back to school after the pandemic could lead to the creation of thousands more violent offenders, according to an analysis reported in the Times.
- “Paper that killed Covid lab leak theory should be retracted, experts demand” – Over 30 scientists from around the world have called for the official retraction of Proximal Origin, the scientific paper credited with killing the idea Covid leaked from a lab, reports the Mail.
- “The Covid lab leak deception” – Scientists who signed a paper claiming a natural origin turn out not to have believed it themselves, say Matt Ridley and Alina Chan in the WSJ.
- “How minor lockdown-promoting academics with no relevant expertise came to shape German pandemic policy at the highest levels” – Eugyppius reveals Chinese pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan’s role in Western lockdowns through connections with influential advisors and containment efforts in Wuhan.
- “‘Ethical’ advertising activists rely on cash from controversial mining firms and Russian oligarchs” – GB News reveals that a significant advertising organisation, associated with activists who organise boycotts, is receiving funding from an investment firm that has profited from sanctioned Russian oligarchs and controversial South American mining operations.
- “‘Help! I have a heat pump – but still need a log burner when it’s cold’” – The Telegraph profiles Steven Oakley, who has embraced green improvements, but cavity wall insulation is impossible for his bungalow. Is his only option to pay £18,000 for an alternative?
- “The UN’s climate alarmism has gone too far” – If you are going to tell people they are effectively doomed, what, then, is the incentive to do anything about it, asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Let the nightmare in Japan be a warning to childless millennials” – Last year, Japan’s population plummeted by almost a million, and the way things are going, Britain will soon be in the same boat, warns Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “Flip-flopping Starmer can’t be trusted to defend women’s rights” – U-turns are starting to look like a feature, not a bug, in Starmer’s leadership, says Nicole Lampert in CapX.
- “Why does the Beano want to cancel itself?” – ‘Diversity and inclusion’ introduces criteria to publishing other than that a story should be well and grippingly told, says Melanie McDonagh in the Spectator.
- “The doctrine of intersectionality is a dud” – The almost complete absence of anything remotely resembling an intersection in the progressive doctrine of intersectionality poses a problem for those on the Left who adhere to its idiotic credo, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
- “Meghan, Harry and the truth about sexist adverts” – Surely only social isolation can explain Meghan and Harry’s latest focus on pushing advertisers to “break the gender binary”, says Joanna Williams in the Spectator.
- “Female swimmers had to undress next to ‘six foot four biological male’ Lia Thomas ‘18 times a week’” – Female athletes at the University of Pennsylvania changed in the bathrooms to avoid drying off next to transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, says the Mail.
- “U.S. women’s team branded ‘disrespectful’ in row over national anthem at Women’s World Cup” – The U.S. women’s football team has sparked a divisive row at the World Cup after six players elected not to sing the U.S. national anthem in a silent protest, reports the Mirror.
- “‘Nigel Farage has had the greatest political treble I have seen in my whole life’” – Kelvin McKenzie celebrates GB News and Nigel Farage for his victory against the establishment.
‘Nigel Farage has had the greatest political treble I have seen in my whole life.’
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Banks and bankers can be blamed for many things. But the problem of people having accounts shut has been caused by government.
Banks and the financial system have been weaponised by government to go after its enemies. When governments put sanctions on countries or individuals they force the banks to close accounts and prohibit transactions with them. When banks fail to do so they get enormous fines.
In practical terms that means that banks have to monitor everyone and every transaction. Its the only way they can ensure compliance.
I’m not saying that some banks might not relish the task and become overzealous, but this starts with governments using banks as their financial police agents and not just giving them the power to shut people down, but demand that they do so.
In all this Farage saga, its plain to see that government has no intention of stopping banks from doing their spying work on the population. They’re going to give a lot of lip service to free speech but banks will still be charged with monitoring the population and shutting down “legitimate” enemies.
“Nigel Farage playing victim in NatWest row, says Emily Maitlis”
He is the victim, you silly cow…
…..over 4000 comments, and pretty much none that I could see in support of Maitlis’s view..which has got to be encouraging…..?
What I would like to know is do all of these known jihadists, hate preachers like Choudary etc have bank accounts? Well they must do if they’ve been in the country for any length of time. And do criminals get to keep their bank accounts after they’ve committed heinous crimes, even if they avoid being sent down? Because these are the very scum that should surely warrant banks cancelling their accounts, not, from what I’ve read, decent law-abiding citizens. See below as an example. He’s a uni student, I want to know if he’s still got his bank account;
”A North London schoolboy who started a bomb scare at the O2, writing ‘kill yourself you stupid white filth’ and ‘Long live Al Qaeda’ to the Metropolitan Police, has been spared jail. University student Faress Mezine, 18, of Exchange Close in New Southgate, was labelled ‘immature’ and an ‘idiot’ by his defence lawyer as he appeared at Harrow Crown Court on Wednesday (July 19).
Prosecuting Dipan Varsani told the court how on April 8 2022 Mezine sent multiple direct messages to the Met Police’s Instagram account, threatening to blow up Europe’s biggest music arena in Greenwich. “Multiple messages were sent, one in the Arabic language translated ‘Kill yourself you stupid white filth’. Another said ‘I will bomb the O2 in 13 hours’ and ‘Long live Al Qaeda’,” Mr Varsani said.”
https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/idiot-north-london-schoolboy-who-27355326
I wonder if these 8 pieces of sh*t have had their bank accounts cancelled yet. This is an ongoing trial. Sick.
”A jury has been told that eight men used two girls for their ‘sexual demands’ as defence counsel implored them not to ‘bring prejudice’ about the history of Rochdale into their deliberations.
Following a two month trial at Minshull Street Crown Court, in which eight men are accused of sexually exploiting two girls between 2002 and 2006, prosecution and defence barristers have addressed jurors in their closing speeches.
Neither women, as complainants of sexual offences, can be publicly identified.”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/men-acused-using-girls-sexual-27394100
Nah, doubt it – Crims Have Rights, doncha know, and their DEI score is too high, would make the banks look bad.
And yet look at the crimes and acts of the above examples vs the non-crimes/inexcusable acts of Nigel Farage and many others. An ‘inconvenient’ political stance trumps rape, child sexual exploitation or threatening to bomb civilians/hate speech then, for the banks not wanting your custom. Right, got it. The standards by which we are judged eh? FFS. The problem with Farage is that he’s the wrong race! lol Hate speech is only tolerated when it’s coming from a non-white, preferably Muslim, person. It is what the Koran is predominantly made up of, apparently, hating on the ”unbelievers”. And I have no doubt that if that 18yr old had been a white lad hating on Muslims and threatening to blow up a mosque he’d be doing time right now.
Good points Mogs.
…good question….I assume most migrants..in fact most people have bank accounts or building society accounts, because that’s how benefits are paid..? There are ‘credit unions’ but I suspect you are right and an ‘immigrant’ or ‘person of colour’ would be considered a ‘tick’ in the right side of the book..so would never have their bank account suspended!?
The clue lies in her name “mateless”
Sad cow!
“How minor lockdown-promoting academics with no relevant expertise came to shape German pandemic policy at the highest levels”
Read this yesterday. Tremendous work by Eugyppius.
“The UN’s climate alarmism has gone too far”
Some of the hysterical pronouncements from Guterres this week have forced me to reconsider Henny Penny as a placid even tranquil literary character. His Mrs must dread him coming home. I bet she doesn’t ask what his day has been like…
LoL! How did these absolute morons get so high up the greasy pole…? So it’s not even just hot now..it’s boiling!!
The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said after scientists confirmed July was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record.
“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” Guterres said. “It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels], and avoid the very worst of climate change. But only with dramatic, immediate climate action.”
So there you have it..the battle line has been drawn..and it’s up to us to tell them to fu** *ff with their nonsense….!
I’ve got a suggestion – move some of the Stevenson Screens away from runways and jet engines, or huge greenhouses and enclosed tarmac’n’concrete urban areas and I’ll bet the temp readings start to fall….
John Dee’s Climate Normal has been doing a great substack series on this, today’s offering is definitely worth a read:
https://jdeeclimate.substack.com/p/hot-hotter-hottest-part-5
…as is his graphic riposte to Guterres!
https://jdeeclimate.substack.com/p/global-boiling
Why are they all so bloody ugly too..
So now all we need to worry about is who decides what is ‘lawful freedom of expression‘. Stonewall?
I do worry and wonder where all this banking concern is leading? the USA and the UK have huge National Debts, can we sustain that level of debt? Will there be such a financial debacle that we end up with some sort of digital currency? If so then maybe yes we can all have an account but TPTB will control what can go in, what can go out and how you live. So no need to cancel your account, your account will be emasculated by some AI controlled big brother.
Nobody ever talks about who the debt is owed to, or whether it results from existing money being moved or from new money being created by splitting zeros.
It would be interesting to know what proportion is owed to UK individuals and organisations and could therefore be “cancelled” through a one-off wealth tax “debt jubilee”and what proportion to foreign ones.
Neither have I heard described how CBDCs would not be vulnerable to the same economic realities as the FIAT systems. For example, the system would, it seems, generate say $2000 a month for all participants as Universal Basic Income.
Since that would simply be dots on a screen, unlinked to the “token” value given to all the assets in the world, the result must surely be highly inflationary. In other words, assets would get more and more expensive over time, with decreasing value as productivity slumped. The system must go the same way as the present one. Or have I got it wrong?
On the positive side, if and when the current system collapses from its intractable debt, how can a new system based on even less arise from its ashes?
You will own nothing and be dead.. simples..
I have a nasty feeling you’re right on the money there Steve.. literally..
Re climate alarmism, and the increasingly hysterical pronouncements by proponents of AGW. One could almost think, (and I’m only half joking) that, after bludgeoning people continually with an ever increasing ‘end of the world’ hysteria, and whipping the naive and easily led into a hair pulling arc of despair, a solution will be offered by our nice caring governments – yes, Kool Aid (or a more palatable version thereof). A simple solution to one’s worries, a swift painless end of of some sort with the promise of a lovely funeral, or a cash gift to your relatives. Centres could be set up (ha! like vaccination centres) where you can pop in and off yourself, aided by helpful NHS staff.
We are the carbon they want to reduce after all.
Ah. Have you read Harry Harrison’s dystopian novel ‘Make Room! Make Room!‘ or seen the film that was based on it ‘Soylent Green‘?
Just to be clear it’s fantasy – not a handbook.
Yes, I’m so old I actually saw it at the cinema when it came out. Certain scenes have stayed with me.
….me too! LOL!
..I always remember Edward G Robinson when he goes to the facility to end his own life..and he’s faced with the screens showing how life used to be..and the beautiful classical music…..brilliant..
As I’m writing this it does occur to me that the Edward G Robinson character decides to go there because he’s found out Soylent Green is made from human remains..because the seas have finally died and there’s no ‘green plankton’ to use anymore…and it’s the final straw for him in a life of misery…..……isn’t this a little bit what Canada is now doing in relation to State-Assisted Euthanasia? Making life so miserable that death seems an inviting alternative?
Just a thought!!?
How are the increasing number of people who have been debanked managing, I wonder? Farage has said he’s using Fintech options but I bet not everyone has that option, and in any event it’s pushing those that can even closer to a fully digitised and controllable currency. Postal orders are still available….
This pertains to the paper I shared the other day by the lawyer who showed that the mRNA jabs meet the definition of ‘genetically modified organisms’. A GP in Australia is suing Pfizer and Moderna;
”A Victorian doctor and pharmacist is seeking an injunction from the Federal Court of Australia to stop Pfizer and Moderna from distributing their mRNA Covid vaccines.
Dr Julian Fidge alleges that both the monovalent and bivalent vaccines contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), for which Pfizer and Moderna did not obtain the appropriate licence.
The GMO nature of the LNP-modRNA complexes, coupled with McKernan’s findings of DNA contamination in the mRNA Covid vaccines, may have profound consequences, for Australia and for the world.
There is already at least one peer-reviewed scientific paper demonstrating that the Pfizer Covid vaccine mRNA is able to enter the human liver cell line and reverse transcribe into DNA in vitro (meaning in a lab dish).
Additional studies are cited in the case materials showing the presence of Covid vaccine mRNA in the nucleus of human cells, and evidence that acquired immune traits pass down to the offspring of mice pre-exposed to the Covid vaccine mRNA-LNP platform. This is suggestive that, once in the nucleus, the vaccine mRNA can be transferred and integrated with chromosomal DNA.
“Every single person who has been injected with these products has received a GMO that has not been through the expert regulatory process in this country,” says Ashby-Koppens. “The human genome could be changed permanently, and no one was informed.”
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/australian-gp-sues-pfizer-and-moderna
“Paper that killed Covid lab leak theory should be retracted, experts demand”
What, like all the papers that trashed – and continue to trash – every already-available and proven treatment option, and every YT talking head that said the gene jabs worked? That stuff too? In your dreams.
“The doctrine of intersectionality is a dud” – The almost complete absence of anything remotely resembling an intersection in the progressive doctrine of intersectionality poses a problem for those on the Left who adhere to its idiotic credo, says Rod Liddle in the Spectator.
The ‘doctrine of intersectionality‘ sounds like someone has read Douglas Adam’s ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency‘ where we find the concept of the ‘fundamental interconnectedness of all things‘ – and taken it seriously.
On the subject of Keir Starmers unreliability:
https://declassifieduk.org/keir-starmer-joined-secretive-cia-linked-group-while-serving-in-corbyns-shadow-cabinet/
Not linked to the stories in todays round up, but of equal concern, are the revelations emerging about crooked asylum lawyers – see https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/watchdog-calls-for-urgent-action-against-lawyers-behind-fake-asylum-claims-5426815?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=UK_mb-2023-07-28&src_cmp=UK_mb-2023-07-28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=news&utm_content=1
Evidence that our legal profession is at least as compromised as others – surely not?
I have recently seen a close family member progress through postgraduate legal training at one of a large chain of legal ‘universities’ and having seen on how it only focuses on process to the exclusion of the values that we should see in our legal system, it is clear that ideologues of any persuasion can easily become a solicitor.
Note the Met were not called.
if a few have been identified there will be many more. What monitoring does the Home Office do and what deep audit will solicitors be required to have done, at their own expense, to identify illegal practices.
will the grants of permission to stay be cancelled; you bet not.
I’m sure this has much to do with it too. Seen so many examples of this now, where they throw their passports and I.D overboard on their way to Europe. It’s also a known fact that many pose as minors but are actually adults. They’re literally erasing their past and ability to be vetted. Now why would any innocent, law-abiding person wish to do that? Anyway, what’s another boat-load of non-elderly men identifying as women and children? Just keep ’em coming!
”The illegal immigrants throw their documents overboard before invading Italy because they are wanted criminals in their country and do not want to be recognised. They could also be terrorists.”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1684110121129877504
Love it! More like this man please. Shame he wasn’t standing at the front.
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1684358798327320576
This is so ‘fu**ed Up…because it’s just what I think most of us think is just common sense, surely?..… and yet these poor children…this breaks my heart….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGgR3W_jjg
De-transitioner Chloe Cole testifies before a House Subcommittee 27th July…
Lest we forget.. the long cultural Marxist march through our institutions included the banks..
Even if the Proximal Origin paper is retracted other papers will continue to cite it and people will base their decision-making on it.
Although it’s interesting to try to understand the motivations of those who desperately tried to claim the damned bug was a zoonosis, it does not really matter. What matters is that people realise the lockdowns and other interventions were ineffective and, most importantly, morally wrong.
Thought this might be of interest.
Press Releases First published: 13/12/2021 Last updated: 13/12/2021
National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) was today fined £264,772,619.95 following convictions for three offences of failing to comply with money laundering regulations.
https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/natwest-fined-264.8million-anti-money-laundering-failures
https://twitter.com/bel_b30/status/1684664431177773056?s=48&t=eyz8PPdeLnl5noHG9QrVlQ
A little light-hearted entertainment.
https://twitter.com/2023rapunzel/status/1684503802827665408?s=48&t=eyz8PPdeLnl5noHG9QrVlQ
Lee Evans on net zero and light bulbs.
““Nigel Garage playing victim in NatWest row, says Emily Maitlis” You couldn’t make this up. The BBC are investigating why Remoaner and Brexit rejoiner Gina Millar had her bank account closed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66328098
I admit I have not read the article. I won’t subscribe to get through their paywall. If anyone has a link to the analysis reported in the Times I’d be pleased if they put it in a comment.
I understand why people blame ministers for closing the schools and triggering the increased truancy we have seen since then. However, it is not ministers’ responsibility to get children back into class now that schools have been permitted to reopen. The responsibility fundamentally lies with parents and to a lesser extent with the schools and local education authorities. It is unreasonable to blame ministers for a ‘failure’ to do something that is not their responsibility.
Closing the schools (which the ministers did permit) in the face of the Covid bug was stupid and unethical. It is not surprising that kids (and some parents) learned that school was not considered very important but was considered to be dangerous. Having absorbed this idea it’s not surprising some decided against going back when permitted. These truant kids and their families are probably predominantly from the more academically ‘disadvantaged’ end of the scale and will not be reasoned with.
Yes, I have no doubt that a greater percentage of these truant kids will drift into crime than from the general school-age population. Yet another magnificent benefit from lockdown.
Another update on the latest shipping incident nearby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBUt8oBjDHM with a batch of new cars burning out.
Thanks for posting. As one commenter on it says, saving the planet one tragedy at a time.