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Nigel Farage cries persecution, nobody wants to be his banker after ties to Russia

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    #1982
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920160#Comment_120920160

    In the world of UK satellite TV news he's a winner.

    That's why he's paid the big bucks.

    And earning a very good crust across the Atlantic where he's much in demand.

    However, as with Brexit, he's prepared to sacrifice time and money for a cause he believes in. He has the entire retail banking sector bricking themselves and he hasn't even got started yet.

    Great fun to watch but the howls of indignation from the usual woke leftie suspects are even funnier. He's wrecking your buzz.🤣



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    #1983
    brickster69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,691 ✭✭✭brickster69


    More people caught up in it now. It's all coming out now.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12352317/Bank-England-boss-Andrew-Bailey-accused-standing-Barclays-debanked-key-Brexit-supporter.html?ico=amp-comments-viewall#comments-12352317


    “The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”

    - Camille Paglia



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    #1984
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,881 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920189#Comment_120920189

    Ah yes. Big bucks but can't stay above the minimum for posh banks.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #1985
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920036#Comment_120920036

    Nobody got blackballed from the banking sector in this case. Farage stopped meeting the the criteria for a boutique bank for wealthy elites. I also don't meet the criteria but you don't hear me moaning about it.



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    #1986
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920238#Comment_120920238


    Enough to pay off his mortgage.

    But as we've already established from the 40-page SAR document kept by Coutts it was not the reason why they were closing his acccount but purely his political views. That's why the heads of both Coutts and NatWest have gone.

    Still, things have moved on apace since then. He's succeeded in uncovering widespread abuse by the banking system and is busy converting this into an effective consumer rights organisation using his renowned communications skills.

    The funniest thing about all of this is that left-wing wokies should be the people campaigning for this not a wealthy right-wing TV pundit.But they're prepared to ignore the innocent people who have suffered such is their hatred of Farage.

    This story is only just beginning to pick up a head of steam.



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    #1987
    Shoog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭Shoog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920311#Comment_120920311

    There is no established pattern of abuse by the banks. Farage is shouting to the seals in the absence of any data or real solid evidence.



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    #1988
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,881 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920311#Comment_120920311

    Nope. Farage lied, as has been proven several times in this thread.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #1989
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920348#Comment_120920348


    Again your Black Knight insistence that there is nothing amiss is embarrasing when you read the daily coverage of this story.

    It underlines your argument comprehensively and does you no favours if I may say so.



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    #1990
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920352#Comment_120920352

    Lied over what ? The reason for Coutts closing his accounts ? It's there in black and white in Coutts' own files.

    Why else has he claimed two banking scalps already ?

    Do at least try to overcome your Farage hatred. It's highly amusing but does you no favours.



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    #1991
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,881 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I'll believe it when I see proof. Since you haven't provided any, let's leave it there.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #1992
    Quin_Dub
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920370#Comment_120920370

    He lied when he said it was a conspiracy by all the banks to force him out of the UK because of his role in Brexit.

    The two people who stepped down did not do so because they closed Farages account , they did so because one of them gave personal client details to a Journalist which is a breach of data privacy rules.

    Not one person has lost or will lose their job because Nigel Farages Coutts account was closed.



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    #1993
    Shoog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭Shoog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920355#Comment_120920355

    I am concerned about people who have been driven into poverty by this government, people who have lost their bank accounts because they went bankrupt or homeless. People who lost their bank accounts because of Brexit.

    All issues which Farage Is defeaningly silent on.

    A man of the super rich rather than of the people.



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    #1994
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920370#Comment_120920370

    Scalps being claimed appears to largely be because of senior banking officials leaking private info. If he has such a bombshell, it'd be great for him to reveal if any of the 9 banks are not boutique banks.... That would strengthen his case but strangely enough, he hasn't.



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    #1995
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920398#Comment_120920398


    As he is unable to open another bank account ( he appropached 10 other banks ) what else would you suggest it is ?

    Quite rightly he has exposed large numbers of people - not all of them pro-Brexit but enough for a pattern to emerge - who have had their banking arrangement withdrawn.

    If this was pro-remainers being cancelled in large numbers you would be the first up on your hind legs to complain - instead the Citizen Smiths are voicing their support for banks to ride roughshod over their customers.

    That's why it's all such a great laugh to see the left-wing contorting themselves like pole-dancers to avoid facing the truth. Keep it up for the lols lads.😅



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    #1996
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920406#Comment_120920406


    A man of the 17.4 million people ...



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    #1997
    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,715 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920437#Comment_120920437

    By law he has a right to an account with a bank, if 9 other banks have refused them, he can take a legal case against them and will win.

    But he hasn't gone to 9 banks looking for an account.

    Number of people de-banked: 0



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    #1998
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    Grant Shapps has revealed he and his entire family have had their bank accounts closed.

    The senior minister said his wife and children have all been blocked from getting accounts at major banks because he is a ‘politically exposed person’.

    One bank demanded he hand over a staggering 18 years of payslips before they would let him become a customer.

    Interestingly, Shapps was also mentioned in the Coutts dossier where it talks about Farage referring to Shapps as a "globalist", and this being evidence of alleged anti-Semitism.

    Shapps, who is himself Jewish, rubbishes the Coutts allegation against Farage (the same false allegation parroted multiple times over the course of this thread):

    Mr Shapps, 54, also hit out at Coutts for referring to him in their ‘dodgy dossier’ for de-banking former Ukip leader Mr Farage. The 40-page document included an article in which Mr Farage described Mr Shapps as a “globalist”.

    The article had claimed the description is an antisemitic trope aimed at Mr Shapps - who is Jewish.

    But hitting back, Mr Shapps said he thought the claim it was antisemitic was “a load of tosh” and he was left fuming at its conclusion.




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    #1999
    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,715 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920520#Comment_120920520

    woke de-banking scandal

    🤣

    The sun clucking I see.



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    #2000
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920497#Comment_120920497


    Actually he approached 10 other banks and all turned him down.

    If you put hatred of Farage over the rights of ordinary people to politics-free banking you earn the right not be be taken seriously.



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    #2001
    Shoog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭Shoog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920558#Comment_120920558

    He was offered a bank account which he turned down. He approach 10 boutique super wealthy banks and was turned down by them presumably for the same reasons Coutts closed his account - lack of funds and reputational risk.



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    #2002
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920437#Comment_120920437

    He is unable to open another VIP account.

    No one is stopping him from opening a regular account like a regular person.

    To do so would be illegal and for reasons only Nigel Farage can explain he has not engaged his lawyers and instead has chosen to "fight" this issue on Social media instead of the courts.



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    #2003
    Doc07
    Registered Users Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Doc07


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920558#Comment_120920558

    What ‘ordinary’ banks or banking facilities was he turned away from? Even Coutts offered him alternative banking from NatWest.

    He was denied luxury banking but suits his dog whistling narrative to intentionally mix it up with ‘an attack on the ordinary man and their current account’



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    #2004
    I.R.Y.E.D
    Registered Users Posts: 971 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1504687870006620163?s=20

    Good to see Nige and others providing evidence to support the theory



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    #2005
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920581#Comment_120920581


    He hasn't applied for VIP accounts.

    He has approached 10 other banks to open a personal and business account and has been refused.

    The link upthread about Arron Banks - and the potential damage it did to customers of his insurance company - clearly shows a pattern of this.



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    #2006
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920602#Comment_120920602

    And yet he refuses to name these banks which would be in breach of the law if they refused him these accounts.

    He also has not gone the legal route when if they are indeed refusing to give him a standard bank account would be a slam-dunk for him.

    Instead he's bleating on about changing the PEP & Money Laundering rules....Hmmmmm



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    #2007
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920576#Comment_120920576


    As he hasn't revealed the identity of any of the banks he has applied to how do you know they're " 10 boutique super wealthy banks ".

    You're just making stuff up now.

    C'mon, you can do better than this.



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    #2008
    Ger Ger
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Ger Ger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920594#Comment_120920594


    Coutts offered him a private NatWest account but not a business account.

    But great to see you coming out in support of a bank that caters for Britain's wealthy and privileged.And King Charles.

    Keep up the good work - they're down to their last billion or so ...



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    #2009
    Shoog
    Registered Users Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭Shoog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920632#Comment_120920632

    So why hasn't he reveal the list of high street banks that turned him away if you are so confident that they were high street banks. I think it is you who are making stuff up here. It would be the cornerstone of his crucade if they had.

    Farage is been very selective in what he reveals. I wonder why ?



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    #2010
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920581#Comment_120920581

    You have no evidence that Farage sought "VIP services" from the other ten banks. That's magicked from thin air, or what you hope to be the case.

    When Coutts first excogitated the exit of Farage, they understood perfectly well that there was a risk that Farage would take things public. It's stated in the dossier. They took the risk, and failed. Farage was offered an account with NatWest, but he was only offered a personal account. Farage was not offered a business account with NatWest.

    These are the facts.

    Your post is -- yet again -- riddled with falsehoods and empty speculation.



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    #2011
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120920632#Comment_120920632

    And how do you know they aren't??

    Like you say yourself

    You're just making stuff up now.

    C'mon, you can do better than this.

    On balance , if a person is told by a Hyper Elite VIP bank that he needs to find somewhere else to do his banking , do you think it more likely that he went to other Hyper-Elite VIP Banks seeking comparable services or that he just decided to head on down to his nearest Credit Union to open a savings account???



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