The next #culturewar may have an #economic spin:

There is growing resistance to the #cashless society as engineered by the #financialservcies, with much criticism starting to focus on (very early) plans for the global Central Bank of Digital Currencies.

While some of the vocal critics of #digitalcurrency (such as #NigelFarage) have a long culture war history, others are coming to this from concerns around #inequality, #surveillance & suspicions about #banking's fee capture for e-transactions!

"Listen, if Nigel Farage thinks it’s a bad idea, by definition it must be a good thing.”

This is not strictly true (e.g., PR), but Sadiq Khan has drafted a reasonable rule of thumb regarding the nicotine-stained groatshop fascist.

#SadiqKhan #NigelFarage #FestivalOfBlackCulture #racism

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/london-mayor-hits-out-at-nigel-farage-at-black-culture-festival/a477286591.html

Oh thank god for that:

Alison Rose, who resigned from #NatWest after the #NigelFarage 'debunking' fiasco (fiasco in that Farage is a publicity hung professional victim) will receive nearly £2.5M (despite resigning)...

How the 1% live....

Is Nigel Farage far right? #tommyrobinson #thedozenpodcast #liamtuffs #nigelfarage #truth

https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/50544

@dissentwatch

The FCA's campaign to rid the country of payday lenders & other firms charging extortionate #interestrates to those the #banks wont touch (& of course I'm not talking about #NigelFarage here), has helped out another sub-sector: #pawnbrokers.

It seems with the decline of a significant number of debt-predators, the pawnbroking sector is booming.

Unfortunately this tells us more about the desperation among the vulnerable in #tory Britain, than the happy success of financial regulation!

[Moconomy] summarises how super wealthy backed think tanks and the ERG (party within a party) steered #Brexit after the #EURef to become the disastrous hard Brexit that the UK has today and which only a minority of wealthy elitist special interest groups will benefit from
https://youtu.be/1ldfpUW0cEk
@Frances_Coppola #ukpol #RichardTice #BorisJohnson #NigelFarage #EU #NorthernIreland #TheresaMay #coup #DavidGauke #SoniaSodha

Didn't they try to label ex-Labour leader, #NigelFarage, as anti-semitic to kill his chances of getting the top job?

Pretty sure #RFK is not in any way #antiSemitic in anyway.

#frkjr #robertFKennedy #narratives #forcedNews

#Farage’s victory over good governance and due process

#NigelFarage was not de-banked for his political views. Why do the government and right-wing press perpetuate this false narrative?

Stella Perrott @YorksBylines @BylineTimes @SydesJokes #FakeNews #gaslighting
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/farages-victory-over-good-governance-and-due-process/

As with past culture wars, we’re once more seeing establishment figures, such as the multi-millionaire #RichardTice, former #BrexitParty leader #NigelFarage and #Conservative peer, #JacobReesMogg among other ghouls of the right corral the legitimate concerns of those lower on the socio-economic ladder and harness them to their own increasingly apocalyptic ends.

Simon Speakman Cordall @BylineTimes @SydesJokes
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/08/04/climate-change-and-culture-wars-rhetoric-cant-mask-reality/

It's amazing how Nigel Farage was fine allowing, indeed, actually almost empowering businesses to discriminate based on their customer's views back a few years.

#nigelfarage #hypocrite

Interestingly as #JeremyHunt demands that the FCA levies heavy fines on #banks that have debunked people for political views, FCA chief Nikhil Rathi observes banks are under no obligation to provide business accounts (which is a 'policy matter' for the Govt.).

So its clear how the #NigelFarage case will be distinguished from those organisations who have been held up as previous examples of debunking that have had little political traction; unlike Farage these will have been business accounts!

Please help poor #NigelFarage #uk #UKPol

https://accountclosed.org.uk/

So, tell me:

Is #NigelFarage a victim of #cancellation, effectively unbanked by “the system”, a warning sign for all aspiring contrarians?

Or is he capitalising on the reasonable refusal of a single bank (or even a whole category of exclusive banks) and exaggerating to advance his agenda?

(Note that the answer is orthogonal to the questions of whether he’s a despicable human being [which he probably is] or whether #Brexit was a good idea [it probably wasn’t])

Q. can #NigelFarage (finally) be a cause for good?

If his focus on #debanking is wide & comprehensive in its support for the victims of #banking organisations (too aggressive) application of politically exposed person & other rules intended to constrain financial crime, then yes he can...

However, a self-centred, vain seasoned misleader of people may not be the best champion for this necessary campaign... maybe he'll rise to the occasion, or maybe not.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/uk-banks-closing-more-than-1000-accounts-every-day

United Kingdom: the country in which making a websites turns even the lowliest political con man into a "leading #consumer champion".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/30/nigel-farage-coutts-planning-new-website-to-help-people-denied-accounts-by-banks

#UK #NigelFarage #ConsumerProtection #privacy #banking

“Underpinning all of this, though, is Brexit. This week’s row wouldn’t have happened at all, let alone at the volume it did, if the bank’s victim had been a remainer like Gary Lineker or Delia Smith, let alone Keir Starmer. If one of these had been debanked, rather than Farage, everything would have been very different.”

#NigelFarage #Coutts #Tories #Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/27/nigel-farage-coutts-brexit-tories-ukip

Once again #EmilyMaitlis is completely on the money, I couldn't have put it better myself

#NigelFarage #entitled #NatWest #coutts

https://youtu.be/--sFRcdcrC8

The #NigelFarage Q. put in stark terms, by Ben Jamal:

'Conservative government claims that they’re taking action now on behalf of Nigel Farage because of an issue of principle begs a question of why was that not applied & why have you not taken action or even raised a murmur when this has occurred to a whole range of other groups whose political view you don’t share?'

We all know why really: the #Tories are a bunch of self-serving #hypocrites running scared of Farage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/27/muslim-leaders-decry-double-standard-of-farage-bank-account-closure-furore

If Alison Rose had been a man would she still be at Coutts & people would have been satisfied with her apology to #NigelFarage?

Certainly Ann Francke thinks so, and I' pretty sure she's right - once again #sexism means #women are more swiftly sanctioned than their male peers.... who somehow manage to keep their jobs after all sorts of reputational damage brought down on their employers!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/27/was-alison-rose-held-to-higher-standard-because-woman

This is your regular reminder that right-wing media owners are not out here to serve the public, or to hold banks to account, however many TV spots Farage gets about his life admin grumbles.

#KnowTheMedia #NigelFarage #GBNews #Natwest

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/gb-news-owner-makes-millions-after-shorting-natwest-stock-353437/