30-06-2023, 10:22
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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I might actually wet myself laughing if this happens.
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Ah - churning it up from the inside out. Eminence gris.
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30-06-2023, 10:36
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Farage mentioned the possibility of leaving the UK and indicated that he would take a couple of weeks off to think things through. Doesn’t have French citizenship too? Does anyone know? Thus might Farage, a great man, decamp to the EU?
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There was a rumour that he had applied for a German passport (his children apparently have British and German passports) but he has denied it. Little will surprise me though.
But really, what a snowflake! NatWest's private bank Coutts allegedly says he's not wealthy enough to bank with them anymore but says he can have an account with their high street bank NatWest. And he says he needs to take two weeks off work as a result!
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30-06-2023, 10:43
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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There was a rumour that he had applied for a German passport (his children apparently have British and German passports) but he has denied it. Little will surprise me though.
But really, what a snowflake! NatWest's private bank Coutts allegedly says he's not wealthy enough to bank with them anymore but says he can have an account with their high street bank NatWest. And he says he needs to take two weeks off work as a result!
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Presumably this is where people pile in on Farage (a great man). We don't know it all, obviously - but it seems serious enough for him to say he'll take a couple of weeks off to assess his options. Didn't he say that other banks refused to have him?
Are we on cancel culture territory here? And if so, this is very worrying for free speech and society.
Maybe the Mods can merge this part of the chat with the GB News thread.
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30-06-2023, 11:06
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Farage mentioned the possibility of leaving the UK and indicated that he would take a couple of weeks off to think things through. Doesn’t have French citizenship too? Does anyone know? Thus might Farage, a great man, decamp to the EU?
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Well, Leave did mean Leave 
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30-06-2023, 11:12
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Presumably this is where people pile in on Farage (a great man). We don't know it all, obviously - but it seems serious enough for him to say he'll take a couple of weeks off to assess his options. Didn't he say that other banks refused to have him?
Are we on cancel culture territory here? And if so, this is very worrying for free speech and society.
Maybe the Mods can merge this part of the chat with the GB News thread.
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Having to bank with Natwest instead of Coutts isn't really cancel culture.
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30-06-2023, 11:32
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Having to bank with Natwest instead of Coutts isn't really cancel culture.
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It is if other banks refused to have him. IIRC, he said that.
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30-06-2023, 11:52
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Farage mentioned the possibility of leaving the UK and indicated that he would take a couple of weeks off to think things through. Doesn’t have French citizenship too? Does anyone know? Thus might Farage, a great man, decamp to the EU?
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Would that make him a financial asylum seeker?
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It is if other banks refused to have him. IIRC, he said that.
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He's renowned for his veracity and factual accuracy...
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30-06-2023, 12:40
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Re: Britain outside the EU
Could he be failing money laundering checks?
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30-06-2023, 13:09
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Farage mentioned the possibility of leaving the UK and indicated that he would take a couple of weeks off to think things through. Doesn’t have French citizenship too? Does anyone know? Thus might Farage, a great man, decamp to the EU?
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German, thanks to his wife, exercising freedom of movement, something he was happy to deny the rest of us and why is the old shyster thinking about it, he said he'd leave the country if brexit failed and he himself called it a failure not so long ago
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Could he be failing money laundering checks?
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30-06-2023, 13:10
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Re: The Bank of Farage
One very messy post move/thread merge completed. Can posters please be mindful that it may be preferable to start a new thread rather than try to shoehorn a new current affairs item into multiple old threads.
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30-06-2023, 13:23
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Could he be failing money laundering checks?
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I doubt it.
I really think it's as simple as he is going to private banks and doesn't have the wealth to quality.
The banks are never going to comment on an individual so we won't know the whole truth. We need to know if he applied for a standard bank account. If he has and still gets turned down then either he has been flagged or we do have a problem here.
I think it's extremely unlikely that every bank is turning him down because of who he is. They've been providing him with such services for a long time so why decline him now when he is less prominent and Brexit is less of a heated issue? Besides, since when did banks care that much about who they provide banking services for?
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30-06-2023, 13:29
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Re: The Bank of Farage
I think it vastly unlikely that he’s being persecuted for being Mr Brexit, though that’s clearly the narrative he would prefer to be out in the wild.
When you think about his dealings apart from Brexit - his associations with Trump and the Russia Today propaganda operation laughably once thought of as a TV news channel - there is vast scope for there to be items in his bank statements that are now great big red flags given that Trump has been indicted on some serious crimes and the head of RT is on Russian TV daily promoting genocide and crimes against humanity.
None of that is to say that Farage is involved in, or even supportive of, such things, but he has moved in circles that have since become manifestly very grubby indeed.
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30-06-2023, 13:32
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Re: The Bank of Farage
Maybe he has been buying crypto
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30-06-2023, 13:51
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Re: The Bank of Farage
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None of that is to say that Farage is involved in, or even supportive of, such things, but he has moved in circles that have since become manifestly very grubby indeed.
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Pretty much every person in Westminster both the commons and the Lords have been in the very same circles at some point
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30-06-2023, 13:51
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Re: The Bank of Farage
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Maybe he has been buying crypto
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Why would that matter, its legal, you can even do it in paypal.
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