Posted on 07/05/2023 10:06:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There will always be an England, goes the saying. But will there? If what’s happening to former party leader and Brexit champion Nigel Farage is any indication, that charming old axiom may have reached its sell-by date.
In an editorial entitled “After my banking travails, I fear Britain is lost,” Farage tells a hair-raising tale of institutionalized political bigotry and discrimination. It combines the kind of systemic abuse once associated with Soviet rule but now sadly common in the United States with the sort of social credit tyranny one sees in China.
“…We are living through the politicisation of our corporate sector. Woe betide you if you do not conform with its worldview,” writes Farage. “This was brought home to me when I was recently told by my bank [since 1980] that it is closing all my accounts without explanation. It is impossible to function without a bank account. It should alarm everybody that a bank has the power to punish those it considers to have erred or strayed.”
He goes on to detail his financial ostracization as bank after bank refused to accept his business, and he gives examples of other politicians — always conservative — to whom it has also happened. Not only are these victims “unpersoned” and rendered unable to conduct business or even function in society, but they also face psychological extortion from vast, faceless institutions as their family members suffer the same fate. Basically, the banks tell the target, “Step down from politics or the kid gets it.”
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But these powerful financial corporations still require a fig leaf to justify their abuse for PR purposes, and this is provided by a legislative or executive body.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Only keep in banks an amount you can afford to lose.
I would never have dreamed of this kind of tyranny.
When I saw the Canadian truckers dispossessed, I knew it was time to divest banks.
Only keep in banks an amount you can afford to lose.
I would never have dreamed of this kind of tyranny.
When I saw the Canadian truckers dispossessed, I knew it was time to divest banks.
Went to look at ‘PJ Media’ and all I got was a bunch of grief, trying to prove I’m not a robot. They can go sit on a sharp stick!
I give it 24 months to get here.
If Trump doesn’t win, we’ve got serious problems.
Even if Trump wins we still have serious problems.
Deep State will likely still control Congress, SCOTUS, and the bureaucracy.
If Trump wins we will have won a major battle, but not the war.
It would be nice if the Swiss banks published a statement saying they would no longer cooperate in data sharing with governments that allow this.
The Swiss have been cooperating with the deep state for years. You think a Swiss bank account is protected from investigation?
Boris Johnson’s brother-in-law experienced weirdness in Mexico over being designated a “politically exposed person”
There appears to be an international body, Financial Action Task Force
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Action_Task_Force
They’re the ones who appear to have counted the term “politically exposed person”.
If you get on their list, then banks are subject to increased reporting requirements about you, and most banks don’t want the bother and risk.
Getting on the FATF blacklist is the financial equivalent of being on the no-fly list. And good luck finding out who put your name on the blacklist.
I have no sympathy for him. He knew this was happening to others years ago and did nothing because he didn’t want to align himself with those that it was happening to (Tommy Robinson, Katy Hopkins, ...). This is simply a case of “they came for the Jews but I wasn’t a Jew...”.
Now it comes after him. He was a fool to not see it coming and didn’t do something when he had more authority to do so.
Chase bank has done the same here. Of course this happened in Canada too. It’s happening all over the place. We should be raising this to every politician and demand they do something, otherwise, it’s going to be common practice once some ‘automatic connections’ are made across digital services. You won’t need to be prominent voice.
Coming soon to a bank near you. Already happening to a degree already.
The permanent fix to all of this is to repeal the 17th Amendment. The uniparty the Deep state, the control by the party bosses is all built on the 17th Amendment
Remove the 17th Amendment and it puts a check in Balance back on the senate, removes the influence of the political parties, and it definitely takes away the control of the party bosses and lobbyists in Washington DC and places it to every state capital in the Union.
Our Founding Father’s were not stupid!
Perhaps like Operation Market Garden in 1944.
Nigel Farage is like an English Donald Trump. He is the Foe and enemy of the establishment both left and right and thus must be crushed as they are trying to do the same to Donald Trump.
it seems to be that Nigel’s Coutts account was shut down due to lack of funds.
Coutts – which has served every member of the royal family since George IV – requires customers to hold at least £3m in savings, or borrow or invest at least £1m with the bank.
NatWest offered Farage a standard account instead of his Coutts account, so they didn’t kick him out as NatWest is the owner of Coutts but Farage didn’t meet the criteria for a Coutts account anymore. Coutts is a hyper exclusive private bank - for multi-millionaires.
And he can’t claim he didn’t know — it’s right there on their website - https://www.coutts.com/become-a-client/private-form.html
“Clients are required to maintain at least £1m in investments or borrowing (mortgage), or £3m in savings.”
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