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Grendel

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,066
skybluetony176 said:
So Coutts had no problem being associated with a Brexit campaigner. They did with a Putin apologists though. Well that and the fact that lord haw haw no longer had the finances to qualify for the bank account he thinks he’s entitled too.
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Pretty disturbing if he actually has been denied access due to political views - he claims he’s been denied in 10 other banks. I’m always dubious regarding his claims but if true it’s not a good look
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,067
skybluetony176 said:
So Coutts had no problem being associated with a Brexit campaigner. They did with a Putin apologists though. Well that and the fact that lord haw haw no longer had the finances to qualify for the bank account he thinks he’s entitled too.
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Loads of ministers, including the PM, coming out to bat for Farage. All in the name of culture war. Barmy.
 
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SBT

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,068
Seems to me from the documents that have been posted that Farage no longer met Coutts’ financial criteria and his poor reputation only persuaded them further to cut ties. Their handling of the story since it became public has been awful though.
 

jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,069
fatso said:
I think mother nature will step in somehow and do a global reset.
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It's called climate change and its a work in progress.....
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,070
Grendel said:
Pretty disturbing if he actually has been denied access due to political views - he claims he’s been denied in 10 other banks. I’m always dubious regarding his claims but if true it’s not a good look
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It's not his political views itself that are the problem. It's the fact he has links to dodgy people, dodgy organisations and dodgy money.

The bank is obviously going to assess that risk and carry out due diligence. If he's considered too high risk, they are perfectly entitled to close his account.
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,071
And even if it was about his views, which is what he claims, he was quite happy for businesses to be able to choose who they do business with based on their views a few years ago. Karma's a bitch eh Nige.


Ukip promises legal protection to Christians who oppose same-sex marriage

Nigel Farage attempts to woo Christian voters by promising protection to those who want to object to gay marriage in the course of carrying out their jobs
www.theguardian.com
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,072
I'm not really understanding why Farage should be treated differently to others or why there's an outrage that his account may have been closed for moral reasons when banks do this to other people on a daily basis without any fuss in the media

There's no right to anything other than a basic bank account, and that's only a relatively recent requirement as there were so many people unable to find a bank that would let them maintain an account
 
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SBT

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,073
More economic expertise from this country’s ideological right wing:

 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,074
clint van damme said:
Inwhich case we need to rip up the way our society is structured and start all over again, or start killing people when they hit 75, 1 of the 2.
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Well I was going for option 1.

At some point we will be forced to or we'll see something catastrophic. But as always we'll have to actually be right on the precipice before we even think of acting.
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jul 19, 2023
  • #30,075
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
It's called climate change and its a work in progress.....
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Amongst numerous other things.

Increasing resistance to antibiotics. An increasing population creating ever more demand for land and resources as both get smaller, leading to ever higher tensions and disputes in an era with frighteningly powerful weapons. Not to mention potential threats like AI.

You can see why people wonder if we've not discovered intelligent life because it's destined to destroy itself first.
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,076
SBT said:
More economic expertise from this country’s ideological right wing:

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They know what they're doing. They just know a big chunk of their readership probably doesn't understand.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,077
PVA said:
They know what they're doing. They just know their readership probably doesn't understand.
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I caught a headline in the Express yesterday that said Brexit win for fishermen, at last I thought so I read the article. It was very vague on what the win was but did mention the introduction of Remote Electronic Monitoring. So I googled Remote Electronic Monitoring Fishing to get a clearer idea of what that is and top of the page was an article about how the EU started introducing it in in 2021. So I guess the “win” is being 2 years behind the curve because of Brexit. But as you say they know what they’re doing, they understand their readership.
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,078
jimmyhillsfanclub said:
It's called climate change and its a work in progress.....
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SBT said:
More economic expertise from this country’s ideological right wing:

View attachment 30773
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Starting to see Sunaks point about maths to 18.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,079
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Amongst numerous other things.

Increasing resistance to antibiotics. An increasing population creating ever more demand for land and resources as both get smaller, leading to ever higher tensions and disputes in an era with frighteningly powerful weapons. Not to mention potential threats like AI.

You can see why people wonder if we've not discovered intelligent life because it's destined to destroy itself first.
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Reckon we’re gonna go all in on the AI coin flip. Either Star Trek or Terminator. Let’s see, either way it won’t be boring.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,080
This, to borrow Grendel's term, ghoul. He's back and he's what Starmer's Labour is going to be all about.




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Deleted member 9744

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,081
fernandopartridge said:
This, to borrow Grendel's term, ghoul. He's back and he's what Starmer's Labour is going to be all about.




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Politician are a complete menace to the NHS. Just fund it properly and stop all these incessant reorganisations.
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,082
I thought, objectively, the NHS *was* value for money?
 
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jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,083
The last time that murderous war-mongering c**t "reformed" the NHS, he lumbered it with about £85b of PFI debt........

...just fuck off Tony
 
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duffer

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,084
fernandopartridge said:
This, to borrow Grendel's term, ghoul. He's back and he's what Starmer's Labour is going to be all about.




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Tony Blair, a very rich man these days, strangely enough, turns out to be a Tory.

In the meantime... Starmer et al, of the LINO party (Labour In Name Only), happily take donations from the private healthcare trough...

Naming the MPs Who Take Private Healthcare Money

Doctors working in and committed to the NHS know that the private healthcare sector will deliver a poor (often unsafe) service, will disappear when things go wrong (or when there is simply no profit to be made - because that is the DNA of these corporations) and be found counting your taxpayer...
www.everydoctor.org.uk
 

Mcbean

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,085
Has he got another book coming ?
 

Ian1779

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,086
fernandopartridge said:
This, to borrow Grendel's term, ghoul. He's back and he's what Starmer's Labour is going to be all about.




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The only interview he should be attending is one in The Hague.
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,087
WITCH HUNT!

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In the second part of its three-year investigation, Byline Times examines the professional conduct of the TV presenter when he was a leading editor at Rupert Murdoch’s powerful British tabloid
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,088
What cost of living crisis?

King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers

Details published by Treasury show royal family’s grant is expected to increase from £86m to £125m in 2025
www.theguardian.com
 

chiefdave

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,089
Sick Boy said:
What cost of living crisis?

King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers

Details published by Treasury show royal family’s grant is expected to increase from £86m to £125m in 2025
www.theguardian.com
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don't ask for a pay rise, it will cause inflation
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 20, 2023
  • #30,090
chiefdave said:
don't ask for a pay rise, it will cause inflation
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Unless you’re a banker.
 

David O'Day

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,091
ULEZ is a problem for Labour in London as it adds a drag on to the swing towards them but luckily the aren't looking at needing to gain seats in London

The tories are dead everywhere else, Selby was an absolute disaster for them.

time for bed
 

dutchman

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,092
Disaster for Labour more like.

They were expected to win all three seats but only won one. Pathetic!
 
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David O'Day

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,093
dutchman said:
Disaster for Labour more like.

They were expected to win all three seats but only won one. Pathetic!
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they were not expected to win all 3 seats, stop talking shit as the Lib Dems were expected to win all the Somerton and Frome seat

Let's keep things truthful hey, I know you are a weird far right space cadet but let's keep things truthful hey
 

David O'Day

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,094
Twitter is full of this "Labour was expected to win all 3 seats" which is simply nonsense but it's all weirdos like the dutchman who are saying it
 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,095
Lib Dem’s were always the favourite to win Frome. Apparently Sarah Dyke has been treated like a local MP for months so sure was the community that she would be the next MP. She had a full caseload before the election and is hitting the ground running. Not sure where people are getting Labour were expected to win it from. Desperate defence from the right.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,096
The seat of the disgraced former Prime Minister heavily targeted by Labour and they still don't win it, come on David it isn't a disaster but it's hardly a sign of a thumping majority either.

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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,097
fernandopartridge said:
The seat of the disgraced former Prime Minister heavily targeted by Labour and they still don't win it, come on David it isn't a disaster but it's hardly a sign of a thumping majority either.

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That will undoubtedly be a disappointment for them. But the Selby result was massive even by by-election standards. Overturning a 20K majority is not something you see very often.
 

David O'Day

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,098
fernandopartridge said:
The seat of the disgraced former Prime Minister heavily targeted by Labour and they still don't win it, come on David it isn't a disaster but it's hardly a sign of a thumping majority either.

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It was fought on local issues i.e. the ULEZ, if you don't believe me go and listen to the tory who is now MP
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,099
David O'Day said:
It was fought on local issues i.e. the ULEZ, if you don't believe me go and listen to the tory who is now MP
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Things will get fought on hyper local issues when you've got nothing to offer otherwise

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Ian1779

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  • Jul 21, 2023
  • #30,100
David O'Day said:
It was fought on local issues i.e. the ULEZ, if you don't believe me go and listen to the tory who is now MP
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Blaming ULEZ is lazy, considering as well that Starmer came out and supported the scheme a few weeks ago, he’s tried to straddle the fence on it.

900 people voted Green, most of those would have probably have voted Labour not so long ago, until they were told their vote wasn’t wanted.
 
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