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BREAKING: Emergency law "within days" to curb banks closing accounts
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 20 | By JASON GROVES and KUMAIL JAFFER and VANESSA ALLEN

Posted on 07/19/2023 6:06:14 PM PDT by RandFan

Banks face a crackdown within days to prevent them 'cancelling' account holders with anti-woke views.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning an emergency law change after chilling revelations that Coutts closed Nigel Farage's account because his views 'do not align with our values'.

Serial offenders who do not protect the free speech of their customers could even lose their licence.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman led widespread condemnation of Coutts yesterday, saying its extraordinary actions against the former Ukip leader 'exposes the sinister nature of much of the diversity, equity and inclusion industry'.

Mrs Braverman said the banks needed to have a 'major rethink', adding that it was wrong that 'anyone who wants to control our borders and stop the boats can be branded 'xenophobic' and have their bank account closed in the name of 'inclusivity'.'

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Mr Hunt will bring forward a change in the law in the coming days to require banks to give people three months' notice of a decision to close their account – and to provide the precise reason for doing so.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banks; europe; oppression
Woo Hoo!

Go Nigel Farage!

1 posted on 07/19/2023 6:06:14 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Just wow. We’re slowly being told what to think, believe, say and when to drop our pants. Some folks need to be tried and _________________ for this. Then it will stop.


2 posted on 07/19/2023 6:07:56 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: RandFan

We need something here in the US re: Blackrock.


3 posted on 07/19/2023 6:08:59 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: RandFan

A 3 month notice is not good enough, the practice needs to be abolished.


4 posted on 07/19/2023 6:16:11 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: RandFan

No they don”t.

They OWN government even here on this side of the pond.

They always have... And they always will.


5 posted on 07/19/2023 6:16:46 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Husker24

It will be interesting to see what happens. If he does bring this forward there will be a debate and votes in parliament.

I agree with you by the way


6 posted on 07/19/2023 6:18:53 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Mr Hunt will bring forward a change in the law in the coming days to require banks to give people three months' notice of a decision to close their account – and to provide the precise reason for doing so.

BFD. That's not worth the paper it's written on. More spineless posturing.

7 posted on 07/19/2023 6:29:14 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: RandFan

All of Hunt’s accounts will be closed tomorrow.


8 posted on 07/19/2023 6:29:24 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Tench_Coxe
We need something here in the US re: Blackrock.

We need the services of a few teams of recently retired specialists who possess a “certain set of skills.” The likes of Blackrock, Soros, etc. are FAR more of a threat to humanity than even Islamic terrorism, so if we truly want to defeat that evil it will take at least as much of a “kinetic” effort as was thrown at the Islamists. These demons should fear every moment of every day so long as they continue to try to subjugate and control all of humanity. Nothing less will stop them.

9 posted on 07/19/2023 7:05:57 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: RandFan

You cannot deny banking services to persons, it does not matter how odious they may be in whatever way.

All you can do is seek to prevent bank fraud, and perhaps keep criminal gains from finding safe haven in the bank, but that’s a bit beyond my ken.

This entire situation is ridiculous, these corporate wokesters are starting to affect the quality of life, and they are clearly seeking to pave the way to some mass oppression system.

“We’re denying Nigel Farage a bank account, and we think that all parents concerned about their children and their children’s education, people who feel, perhaps, like they are entitled to some respect from those whose salaries they’ve paid, Roman Catholics who resist the edicts of VCII (and the Pope’s agin them too!), are all White Christo Nationalists!! Even the Black and Asian ones!!”

The dehumanizing language, the bare faced contempt, the nose-thumbing double standards, and the actual destruction against peoples (in Sri Lanka, in the NETHERLANDS, in the USA), I mean this stuff cannot be allowed to continue but I am not seeing a good way out.

And that’s before you add in the Trans stuff. No, I don’t want to live in a world where a fully bearded man putting on lipstick is considered some example of glamour or beauty.

It’s really like some bad art house horror movie. They want us to live in a corrupt, freak show world, and to love it and think it’s swell.


10 posted on 07/19/2023 7:08:51 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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Lately I've been considering transitioning my banking to Old Glory Bank .. check out the second person listed on the Board of Directors (hint: Dr. Ben Carlson):

https://oldglorybank.com/who-we-are/board-of-directors

They don't offer a full range of services, but I'm starting to warm up to the idea of writing more checks.

11 posted on 07/19/2023 9:08:56 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

Correction: “Ben Carson”


12 posted on 07/19/2023 9:09:45 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

I will check them out, thanks for the tip about Old Glory Bank!


13 posted on 07/19/2023 10:16:40 PM PDT by jocon307 (Democrats delenda est.)
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To: jocon307
It has been almost 70 years since the end of WW II. That was was won by "the people". On the battlefield, in the factories, on the docks it was a war won by the levee-en-mass. With the loss of Vietnam there was a change to a professional army. At this point western oligarchs are not in fear of "the people". Maybe the Russiana-Ukraine war will begin an attitude adjustment, but it is up to Westerners to how matters play out in their bailiwick.


14 posted on 07/19/2023 11:18:24 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Slowly? This was done in a few short months from the last months of 2019 til the 15th day. If you were still saying this is the new normal while people died alone in hospitals and homes without the humanity of a funeral… or you support a prez with a record of handing power to the marxists in one hand and a blank check to big pharma in the other…
this was a sudden collapse of freedom, led by a Republican prez.
We stopped being a shining city on the hill when we decided to kneel to experts and power mad people that will never be held accountable.


15 posted on 07/19/2023 11:37:51 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: RandFan

it is such a huuuge story:

19 July: Youtube: 8m03s: Farage publishes SECRET Coutts memo.
by Nigel Farage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRk9rjNsO1A

19 July: Youtube: 4m19s: Farage was right
by Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_j8snIqS0w


16 posted on 07/20/2023 1:29:38 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: noiseman

money the web they have created and those who control it


17 posted on 07/20/2023 4:13:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: RandFan
Mr Hunt will bring forward a change in the law in the coming days to require banks to give people three months' notice of a decision to close their account – and to provide the precise reason for doing so.

And?

Wait, that's it?

Just three months notice and provide the reason?

Weak.

18 posted on 07/20/2023 8:52:29 AM PDT by FreeReign
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