TL;DW - Farage has been given the papers linked to the Subject Access Request he made to Coutts, part of the RBS group, 38.6% of which is owned by the taxpayer. He describes the file as a "Stasi-style surveillance report". He was subject to an "annual review" by their "Reputation Committee" including monthly press checks and kept records of his social media posts.
It demonstrates that they waited until the end of March when his mortgage was due to be paid off in full. They closed his account in April because his views "do not align with our values".
It mentions Russia 144 times, Brexit 86 times and Politically Exposed Person (PEP) 10 times. No direct or indirect links to Russia and Putin was found as stated in the file. His support and interview of Novak Djokovic, a known critic and refuser of the mRNA vaccine, and Donald Trump was also mentioned. He also had his retweet of a joke made by Ricky Gervais on trans women mentioned. As well as the prospect that his political views generate "adverse publicity" in relation to the above as well as Net Zero, xenophobic, racist and LGBT critical views using "extreme, hateful and emotive language" and their concern of how Farage would react when his account is closed by going public and negatively criticising them. No laws were broken.
Farage ends with a warning that Refinitiv who run World-Check, a database of PEPs and higher-rated risk individuals will work with the banks to monitor their customers social media accounts for violations of their values to allow for an account closure and that we are heading toward a Chinese style social credit system.
One white pill (depending on what you think of the Government) to end on, there is going to be Government intervention by Andrew Griffith MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, in preventing debanking.
And naturally, the BBC lied about the claim that he had been debanked because he didn't have enough money to sustain the account. The document itself confirms he was not debanked because of that. Needless to say, the BBC is doubling down by blaming the Financial Times for giving it false information. Not a good look for the BBC Ministry of Truth, sorry, I meant, BBC Verify.
And Farage has been denied service by ten banks now.
It takes time to action a Subject Access Request and then go public. Otherwise if he jumped the gun the claims he was debanked because he was skint would have stuck and it would have made it far more difficult to make his case. He had to play the waiting game before going public with this.
Non YouTube link: https://piped.lunar.icu/watch?v=C5ZQ3pC_HQU
TL;DW - Farage has been given the papers linked to the Subject Access Request he made to Coutts, part of the RBS group, 38.6% of which is owned by the taxpayer. He describes the file as a "Stasi-style surveillance report". He was subject to an "annual review" by their "Reputation Committee" including monthly press checks and kept records of his social media posts.
It demonstrates that they waited until the end of March when his mortgage was due to be paid off in full. They closed his account in April because his views "do not align with our values".
It mentions Russia 144 times, Brexit 86 times and Politically Exposed Person (PEP) 10 times. No direct or indirect links to Russia and Putin was found as stated in the file. His support and interview of Novak Djokovic, a known critic and refuser of the mRNA vaccine, and Donald Trump was also mentioned. He also had his retweet of a joke made by Ricky Gervais on trans women mentioned. As well as the prospect that his political views generate "adverse publicity" in relation to the above as well as Net Zero, xenophobic, racist and LGBT critical views using "extreme, hateful and emotive language" and their concern of how Farage would react when his account is closed by going public and negatively criticising them. No laws were broken.
Farage ends with a warning that Refinitiv who run World-Check, a database of PEPs and higher-rated risk individuals will work with the banks to monitor their customers social media accounts for violations of their values to allow for an account closure and that we are heading toward a Chinese style social credit system.
One white pill (depending on what you think of the Government) to end on, there is going to be Government intervention by Andrew Griffith MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, in preventing debanking.
And naturally, the BBC lied about the claim that he had been debanked because he didn't have enough money to sustain the account. The document itself confirms he was not debanked because of that. Needless to say, the BBC is doubling down by blaming the Financial Times for giving it false information. Not a good look for the BBC Ministry of Truth, sorry, I meant, BBC Verify.
And Farage has been denied service by ten banks now.
Thanks for the TL;DW
The BBC is worse than Pravda or the North Korean News Agency :
The employees at Pravda and NKNA know they are lying and don’t hate the average citizen.
BBC “news” fucking despises the average working class European
I only first heard of this like 2 weeks ago. Why did it take so many months for Farage to publicly come out with this?
It takes time to action a Subject Access Request and then go public. Otherwise if he jumped the gun the claims he was debanked because he was skint would have stuck and it would have made it far more difficult to make his case. He had to play the waiting game before going public with this.