Posted on 06/30/2023 5:49:11 AM PDT by texas booster
Now you would think in the light of this that I'd be pretty happy - I mean, you know, 'news presenter of the year' award was pretty cool and a massive thanks to all of those people out there that voted for me.
The establishment were of course appalled because they in their little London bubble think that I'm incredibly unpopular.
Well in Notting Hill I might be maybe, not quite so in the rest of the country.
But actually truth is, I'm not full of the joys of spring.
I've been living with something for the last couple of months that may well fundamentally affect my future career going on from here, and whether I could even stay living in this country.
I have been with the same banking group since 1980. I've had my personal accounts with them since that date and my business accounts right through the 1990s when I worked in the city of London, and in recent years too, and with one of the subsidiaries of this big banking group - one with a very prestigious name.
But I won't name them just yet.
I got a phone call a couple of months ago to say we are closing your accounts.
I asked why - no reason was given. I was told a letter would come which would explain everything. The letter came through and simply said we are closing your accounts - we want to finish it all by a date which is around about now.
I didn't quite know what to make of it. I complained. I emailed the chairman. A Lackey phoned me to say that it was a commercial decision - which I have to say I don't believe for a single moment.
So I thought well there we are, I'll have to go and find a different bank.
I've been to six, uh no seven, banks actually and asked them all could I have a personal and a business account and the answer has been no in every single case.
There is nothing irregular or unusual about what I do - the payments that go in and come out every month are pretty much the same. I maintain in my business account quite a big positive cash balance, which I guess with interest rates where they are is pretty good for the bank too.
So why is this happening to me?
Well one explanation is this - a few years ago the European Union came up with a definition of somebody called a 'PEP' -a 'politically exposed person'.
Now this could range from anybody from a prime minister down to a local councilor. I think the reason for it was, you know, 'were people in politics open to bribery', 'could foreign governments from Ukraine or China or wherever else it may be, could they be pumping money into the, you know, the accounts of corrupt politicians'.
So I kind of understand that and get that.
But it's all about interpretation isn't it - and what the banks argue is that to maintain an account for a politically exposed person gives them increased costs of compliance.
Now I have spoken to the city minister in this country and there is some hope that this EU definition - which came into British law - may be moderated in some way, we'll will have to see.
But, of course, any bank, any organization, can choose to interpret a 'PEP' and whether they want the account in any way they choose.
To my knowledge, I don't think anybody has been treated like me in the world of politics.
But then the banks you see themselves are part of the big corporate structures in this country - these are the organizations who did not want Brexit to happen and I think in my case probably the corporate world will never ever forgive me because they know if I hadn't done what I did with the help of thousands of people in our People's Army that never would have been a referendum let alone a victory.
I'm the one that is to carry the blame.
So that's the second possible reason why I can't get a bank account - Prejudice that comes from our institutions.
But I think there's a third reason.
A few months ago in the House of Commons Sir Chris Bryant, chairman of the Privileges committee, said using parliamentary privilege that I had received large sums of money directly from the Russian government, and he named the calendar year in which it had happened.
Truth is, I didn't receive a penny from any source with even any link to Russia. And yet because he said it it stands.
I wrote to the speaker, I demanded an apology, nothing has been forthcoming from Sir Chris Brown.
Well I wonder whether that is what's given me part of the problem.
I have employed a top firm of London lawyers. I'm going through a series of subject access requests to find out what is held on me by the international agencies and by the bank that wants to close me down.
But think about it - without a bank account you effectively become a non-person. You don't actually exist. It's like the worst regimes of the mid 20th century - be they in Russia or Germany - you literally become a non-person.
And you don't anymore - you did in the past - but you don't anymore actually have a right to be entitled to a bank account.
Now there is a possibility through a fintech company that I could find some means of receiving and paying money - which could be a little bit of a Lifeline. But it's not a bank account because I won't be able to earn any interest on positive cash balances, I won't be able to borrow money if I need to at any point, or take out a mortgage should I so desire - that will be completely denied to me.
I won't be able to have a debit card linked directly to my account. I won't really be able to exist and function in a modern 21st century Britain.
So I will tell you more about this on GB news at seven o'clock tonight as to what my decision is but I'm beginning to think that perhaps life in the United Kingdom is now becoming completely unlivable because of the levels of prejudice against me. I'll give you more of my thoughts at seven o'clock tonight on GB news.
Mark of the beast system coming soon to a neighborhood near you, written in stone.
Outrageous!
Good info, thanks. I think about Mike Lindell kicked out of the banks for being a “reputational risk”. There are other examples. The line between public and private is blurry. Social credit scores are coming in one form or another.
‘Zlr3ady is happening in a way here.’
I hate when that happens, whatever it is,,,
it’;s pretty bad- lots of ugly stuff and unsightly things
The French had their colonies, as did many European Nations what allowed an influx of immigration from each respective one.
A big group of French police in riot gear (probably 100) confront a sea of dark skinned rioters (maybe 5000???)—looks like Arabics and Africans mostly.
Rising streams of smoke and fire billow up from the desolation behind them.
You are welcome.
Meanwhile in the failure of the UK:
UK Criminals Have a ‘Licence to Shoplift’ As Police Give up Enforcing Law, Laments UK Retail Chief
Breitbart ^ | 07/17/2023 | KURT ZINDULKA
Posted on 7/17/2023, 7:50:08 AM by ChicagoConservative27
Criminals have been given a “licence to shoplift” in the UK as police resources are spent elsewhere, warned the head of a major retailer.
Dame Sharon White, the chairwoman of John Lewis & Partners, which operates department stores and the upmarket supermarket chain Waitrose in the UK has warned of increased criminality, including shoplifting and assaults on retail workers amid the cost of living crisis. She stated that assaults on employees at Waitrose had doubled since 2020.
Citing research from the British Retail Consortium, Dame Sharon noted that there are 850 incidents of abuse or violence at retail stores in Britain every day. In the year leading up to April, retailers throughout the country lost a record high £950 million to shoplifting and theft, up from £663 million during the previous year.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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I’ll bet that most of the French population wish that France had not allowed unfettered immigration during the 50’s and 60’s.
These rioters are the (great) grandchildren of the immigrants brought in to replace the WW I and WW II deaths of the French army.
Napoleon would weep.
“I’ll bet that most of the French population wish that France had not allowed unfettered immigration during the 50’s and 60’s.
“Again, ‘These rioters are the (great) grandchildren of the immigrants brought in to replace the WW I and WW II deaths of the French army.’
‘Napoleon would weep.’
We/America will be there in about 10 years or less.
Allowing a class of people to loot and rob with basically no fear of being stopped by people is paying the looters not to riot!
I believe it already has.
And people on FR have defended it and cried about how that is "capitalism" (it is not but whatever)
They also cheer when the government promotes banks and other businesses organizing into one big giant bank because "that's capitalism" (it is not but whatever).
And if you don't like it then start your own bank. The government will not allow you to do that or they will close your bank because people write nasty and untrue newspaper articles about you and, according to them, "that's capitalism" And it is all your own fault for not bowing down hard enough before the government.
These people are not conservatives and would not recognize capitalism if it bit them.
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