Time for a PEP talk

[Bromptonaut]

Come off it Bromp, when posting a la Claud, the truth and facts have nothing to do with it.

Just putting the boot on the other foot, is all.

You mean putting the boot in with the other foot?

I'm sticking to my own definition of Antisemitism in which the state of Israel, rather than the race/religion of its majority population, does not feature.

To my mind @theclaud provides us with very well expressed summaries of the view from her patch. Nothing more or less.

Some people on here, and elsewhere, deserve to be sniped at. She's not one of them.

 

[Pale Rider]

To my mind @theclaud provides us with very well expressed summaries of the view from her patch. Nothing more or less.

Which only goes to show two people looking at the same thing can see something entirely different.

Funny how you pick me up for sniping at Claud, yet you've been supporting her doing it for years.

Double standards doesn't even begin to cover it.

 

[Rusty Nails]

You mean putting the boot in with the other foot?

I'm sticking to my own definition of Antisemitism in which the state of Israel, rather than the race/religion of its majority population, does not feature.

To my mind @theclaud provides us with very well expressed summaries of the view from her patch. Nothing more or less.

Some people on here, and elsewhere, deserve to be sniped at. She's not one of them.

Everyone who puts their views on a political forum should expect, and deserve, to be sniped at.

That is natural between people with differing views as, clearly, is support for people with similar views.

Some, like @theclaud have shown they are better equipped to deal with it than others, and some are not averse to the odd bit of sniping themselves.

If people stopped having a go at the posters rather than the posts most threads would be a lot shorter.

 

[theclaud]

Which only goes to show two people looking at the same thing can see something entirely different.

Funny how you pick me up for sniping at Claud, yet you've been supporting her doing it for years.

Double standards doesn't even begin to cover it.

 

[Deleted member 121]

Farage has come out with a lot of "trust me bro" type "evidence".

Coutts have said he fell below the wealth limit and was subsequently offered an account at Natwest, which owns Coutts. Farage claims this was only made when he went "public"...

So ultimately Coutts have terms and conditions. Farage failed to adhere to them. Im not sure why the average person with more humble earnings and wealth who will never be exposed to a Coutts bank account should gave a fig...

Sounds like he is spitting is dummy out of the pram and is is giving GBnews content to feast upon. Which again i struggle to care about...

 

[CXRAndy]

But there are many many people who have been rejected banking services at multiple banks. So this would pretty much confirm their stories and N Farage

If N Farage had fallen below the threshold, there is no reason not to inform him of this. Like others have reported, banks blankly refuse to explain why they're being kicked out.

Like I've said this is a very dangerous , life crippling action , which banks must not be allowed to carry on with.

Everyone should be able to hold a bank account, it can only be revoked by evidence of serious wrong doing and actioned in court.

Today is almost entirely digital age,

Banking services should be a right

 

[Deleted member 121]

But there are many many people who have been rejected banking services at multiple banks. So this would pretty much confirm their stories and N Farage

If N Farage had fallen below the threshold, there is no reason not to inform him of this. Like others have reported, banks blankly refuse to explain why they're being kicked out.

Like I've said this is a very dangerous , life crippling action , which banks must not be allowed to carry on with.

Everyone should be able to hold a bank account, it can only be revoked by evidence of serious wrong doing and actioned in court.

Today is almost entirely digital age,

Banking services should be a right

Who and where's the proof?

Farage has been offered an account. It doesn't have the prestige of Coutts but why should i care about somebody else's banking business let alone one for the elite and wealthy? We are all subjected to Terms and Conditions and their subsequent changes and im glad that this applies for once to people with significant wealth.

Besides, not all banks and their services are available to me to access so have to settle for "scum" class accounts and somehow i get by and run a business... Whether right or wrong, this what we have to accept.

 

[Mr Celine]

But there are many many people who have been rejected banking services at multiple banks. So this would pretty much confirm their stories and N Farage

If N Farage had fallen below the threshold, there is no reason not to inform him of this. Like others have reported, banks blankly refuse to explain why they're being kicked out.

Like I've said this is a very dangerous , life crippling action , which banks must not be allowed to carry on with.

Everyone should be able to hold a bank account, it can only be revoked by evidence of serious wrong doing and actioned in court.

Today is almost entirely digital age,

Banking services should be a right

No doubt you were equally upset when post office card accounts ended forcing millions of pensioners and other benefit claimants to make alternative banking arrangements.

 

[Rusty Nails]

But there are many many people who have been rejected banking services at multiple banks. So this would pretty much confirm their stories and N Farage

If N Farage had fallen below the threshold, there is no reason not to inform him of this. Like others have reported, banks blankly refuse to explain why they're being kicked out.

Like I've said this is a very dangerous , life crippling action , which banks must not be allowed to carry on with.

Everyone should be able to hold a bank account, it can only be revoked by evidence of serious wrong doing and actioned in court.

Today is almost entirely digital age,

Banking services should be a right

They are not an absolute right. There are conditions you have to meet, and agree to meet, and banks have the right to refuse business to anyone who doesn't meet those conditions.

Each case has to be judged on its merits and in this particular case the bank appears to have done nothing wrong.

Coutts is not a bank I will ever rush to defend as it is just a bank for the elite, or those who like to see themselves as part of the elite, with a large amount of cash to deposit. Farage has failed the test of wealth and has been offered an account with the hoi polloi in a different part of the same organisation. His life has not been "crippled" in any way. I believe it is just his sense of self-importance that has been punctured so he is using another one of his hobby horses that play well with the sort of people who watch him on GB News...the war on "Woke".

Perhaps it will double the viewing figures of GB News... into the hundreds.

 

[CXRAndy]

No doubt you were equally upset when post office card accounts ended forcing millions of pensioners and other benefit claimants to make alternative banking arrangements.

My understanding it was the DWP informed the post office they will be stopping payments to the card account holders. There was advice given as to which options were available. The deadline was extended for a further year to allow time for members to arrange new accounts or transfer to existing accounts.

There was no targeted hit one individuals with no explanation as to why their accounts were being closed

 

[CXRAndy]

They are not an absolute right

In this digital age, it should be an absolute right. Obviously safeguards need to be in place, revoking an account should be done openly and not arbitrarily by the bank, a court should make the decision after hearing the evidence

 

[Mr Celine]

There was advice given as to which options were available.

Are you suggesting that your frog-faced hero needed advice on how to open a bank account and didn't get it?

 

[Deleted member 121]

I love the suggestion that there are rich opinionated individuals who are sitting at home crying with suitcases full of cash with no banksters willing to bank it for them.

It just isn't happening and won't ever happen...

 

[Rusty Nails]

In this digital age, it should be an absolute right. Obviously safeguards need to be in place, revoking an account should be done openly and not arbitrarily by the bank, a court should make the decision after hearing the evidence

So if I have no money, a terrible history of debt and financial fraud I can go to any bank and demand to open an account with them. It can never be an absolute right, and certainly not to go to a more prestigious bank than one is offered.

There are, very sensibly, conditions I would have to meet. Apparently Farage no longer meets the main one of those conditions in Coutts, i.e.being one of the financial elite, and has to go to the sort of bank that you or I have to go to. My heart bleeds. I apologise if I have insulted you by assuming you are not a Coutts account holder.

It is not something that worries me at all and is certainly not a case that the courts should get involved in.

He could always take it to the ECHR if he is that concerned.

 

[Ian H]

In this digital age, it should be an absolute right. Obviously safeguards need to be in place, revoking an account should be done openly and not arbitrarily by the bank, a court should make the decision after hearing the evidence

I'm impressed by this near-socialist opinion.