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!
#culturewar #economic #cashless #financialservcies #DigitalCurrency #nigelfarage #inequality #surveillance #banking
"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
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
#tommyrobinson #thedozenpodcast #liamtuffs #nigelfarage #truth
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!
#interestrates #banks #nigelfarage #pawnbrokers #tory
[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
#brexit #euref #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.
#nigelfarage #rfk #antisemitic #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/
#gaslighting #fakenews #nigelfarage #farage
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/
#jacobreesmogg #conservative #nigelfarage #brexitparty #richardtice
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.
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!
#jeremyhunt #banks #nigelfarage
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])
#nigelfarage #cancellation #brexit
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
#nigelfarage #debanking #banking
United Kingdom: the country in which making a websites turns even the lowliest political con man into a "leading #consumer champion".
#consumer #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
#brexit #tories #coutts #nigelfarage
Once again #EmilyMaitlis is completely on the money, I couldn't have put it better myself
#emilymaitlis #nigelfarage #entitled #natwest #coutts
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
#nigelfarage #tories #hypocrites
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!
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