“Prejudiced and nasty” Nigel Farage…

[MangetoutsaysGetOutMan]

… doesn’t understand irony.

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Metro Bank said: “Metro Bank is and will remain politically neutral. The decision to close or review any account is made for commercial reasons.”

Ohyousilly this is from the Times article. Why do the banks continue to lie in the face of evidence? Do they actually think they will be believed?

Well if you say a lie enough times eventually someone will believe you, it's mass gaslighting and it goes beyond NF & Coutts. I bet you there's more to come over the next few weeks and we'll see the extent of the unregulated EDI power.

And the banks could have continued to get away with it if it weren't for that pesky Farage.

He's newsworthy and adept at self-publicity. and he's rich and can afford to pay lawyers without having to crowdfund a case. Though he could also do that if he chose, because however much some of us may detest him, he is very popular with a good number of others.

Those people who have previously been de-banked for wrongthink are unlikely to have his advantages. But perhaps now they'll get their cases heard.

Bloody hell, imagine a world where it's Nigel Farage who brings down the TRAntifa, not the government or the EHRC. That's how fucked up the unregulated EDI racket is, and how fucked up this country has become.

What is edi.

What is tranjfta

They're google-able.

@AutumnCrow

Thanks for taking the time to type that out.

I did actually Google them and nothing came up.

Really? I googled 'EDI' and got a page full of hits like this one

https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/about-us/edi

It isn't just Nigel F though . There have been others. I don't think banks should get involved in politics and have the power to do this because they disagree with someone's political views on an issue.

That Rev who got his account cancelled because of his stance on Pride, surely he is entitled to freedom of his views (especially as they are likely part of his faith). He wasn't saying LGBT haven't a right to exist, he wasn't inciting violence or hatred towards them or anyone. And even if he had been that's an issue for prosecution, for the police to be involved not the banks.

I used to wonder if it was conspiracy when people talked about the UK heading towards a social credit system like China's, but I'm not so sure.

But how were the banks human rights threatened ? Their human right to close someone's bank account because they disagreed with them? Seriously ? That should be a right ?

The BBC has had to apologise to Nigel Farage for its story on the closure of his account. If you read the story, there are in fact multiple apologies.

Maybe check your stories more carefully next time, eh, Auntie?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66288464

That's presumably the CEO of Nat West stuffed then, if she was the 'trusted and senior source' who turned out not to be so trustworthy?

@AutumnCrow interestingly it was an LSE lecturer who also happened to be a trustees of Mermaids, the trans charity, who is being investigated for having links to a paedophile organisation......

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11279121/amp/Mermaids-trustee-steps-speaking-event-hosted-paedophile-supporting-organisation.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-63137873.amp

Slightly name-changey here for various reasons, I was Qbish earlier in this thread. Anyway, here is Simon Jack's apology. Which I said he would have to make.
twitter.com/BBCSimonJack/status/1683496780728524800?s=20

Head of NatWest looking increasingly stuffed.

Here's what the BBC's Simon Jack, who reported this story, now says:

The information on which we based our reporting on Nigel Farage and his bank accounts came from a trusted and senior source. However the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore I would like to apologise to Mr Farage

It’s interesting who realised the significance of Simon Jack sitting next to Dame Alison Rose at that dinner and told either or both the press (Telegraph first?) and Farage.

All very indiscreet and frankly a tad arrogant.

It is all very shoddy. And many people have disappointingly showed themselves to be more partisan than interested in fairness.

Where are all you "It was a commercial decision!" people now at?

I'm still a bit concerned that certain posters upthread, who appear perfectly sentient on other threads, were so quick to accuse posters like me of being 'supporters of Nigel Farage'. It's like IQs just dropped sharply round here.

This episode basically shows the arrogance of the work brigade. They think so little of anyone with opposing political views, or maybe they are so stupid so as to discriminate against people openly and then conspire openly to lie to the media, the media to openly print lies and then try and cover it up. It’s not even discrete.

That’s how little they think of anyone who doesn’t go along with the woke nonsense.

One big question still remains….where have all wokesters defending NatWest and the BBC on this thread gone? The silence is deafening.

Oooh, that's pretty racist. Are you saying that people whose families haven't been here for more than a few hundred years aren't English?

I think it's probably more effective to ditch the ill-defined and rather nebulous term 'woke', and talk of 'unregulated EDI'. Just my two penneth.