Off Topic Politics Thread

No doubt someone will be along to say it's has no worldly importance or that it didn't happen or some such other excuse. Meanwhile men like this with obvious psychological problems get to breast feed babies and get defended by other weirdos claiming to be compassionate. This blatant fetishism masquerading as an innocent victim caught in a spiral of exclusion and marginalisation will continue all the while it's encouraged by the self righteous.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/03/the-bizarre-case-of-the-breastfeeding-dad/

 

I don’t know about this IOAG. The article is fairly short. Do we know this was the only person breastfeeding? I remember an episode if friends where a man wears boobs to breastfeed. I don’t think it is really anything to get all ‘self-righteous’ about? Because other people’s lives are their business and I suspect other people are doing far worse with their children.

This is veering far away from the kids shouldn’t be getting trans surgery debate from before and just feels like getting angry over very small minorities and what they get up to?

 

The news story that fascinates me and that has being going aroind for a few days now is the one about Nigel Farage's ban ak account beig closed down. This eas elaborated upon this morning where it rrasnpires that some banks have also been rejecting opening accounts for relatives of prominant people. Nigel Lawson's handicapped grand-daughter was cited as an example - an unnamed bank refusing to open an account because of the perceived risk due to proximity of a political figure.

I find this very disconcerting. Although I dislike Farage, I would think that banks should be giving more robust reasons to declining accounts. I am even more inclined to say that closing down existing accounts would need to be far more robust and I am not convinced that political opinions should be used as an excuse. Seeing that these banks have often has some very unsavory people as their customers, it seems hypocritical. The ramifications are potentially catastrophic and I am surprised that this has not come up in discussion in here. I can see how there might be a censoring of literature which perhaps is unacceptable these days but it is a much further step to effectively dictate whether politicians of a particular affiliation should be denied access to banking services as has been the case with Farage. It seems wrong to inconvenience Farage simply because he is a bumptious idiot.

 

UK to announce billions of pounds of weaponry to be given to the Palestinians any day now. As we'll back anyone who's victim to an aggressive neighbour stealing land.

Right?

Oh wait they've got the wrong colour skin. Never mind.

 

Should at the minimum be cutting off any and all aid to Israel, military and otherwise. These are pogroms, and they have the full backing and assistance of the state.

 

Illegal migration bill is illegal. Ministers urged to shelve illegal migration bill until supreme court ruling after 11 defeats in the Lords
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/immigration/illegal-migration-bill
"We are concerned that the bill may be incompatible with our international obligations under the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Refugee Convention. Breaching our international obligations undermines the rule of law."

 

No chance of that while the US backs them to the hilt unfortunately.

 

There is a circumstance where the bank can close an account and cannot give a reason because they are not allowed. Whether it has been applied appropriately in this case if that is the scenario is debatable of course.

 

Opinion piece from the Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-brexit-revenge-conspiracy-theory-b2368056.html
Can but hope the gatemouthed gobshite is extremely inconvenienced. I understand he was refused a German passport after providing false information regarding his address in Germany.

 

He didn’t meet the minimum financial threshold to hold an account at Coutt’s. He was offered an account at NatWest ((same company) but chose to start a conspiracy theory about it which was picked up by the usual suspects.

Nothing to see here, move on.

 

Yeah, but, it's a well-known fact that banks are controlled by left wing wokery, an' they're tryin' to overthrow the Brexit result. Or something.

 

He thinks they are banch of Coutts

 

Just came here to post the same thing


Coutts banking requirements and minimum deposit
In order to become a client with Coutts private banking, you must:²

• Be a UK resident or UK expat
• Be over the age of 18 years old
• Have assets of at least £1 million, or plan to borrow or invest at least £1 million with Coutts. This could be through a mortgage or investment product.

The Coutts Bank minimum deposit requirement is slightly different for international clients. If you live overseas, you are required to borrow or invest at least £3 million in order to join Coutts.


He's poor unfortunately. Maybe caused by Brexit.

 

Or by his funding being pulled. Either because he isn’t needed anymore, or, as alluded to earlier, the sources would mean he would definitely get his account blocked

 

Nigel Farage in not telling the truth shock. Whatever next.

 

St Jabbo

Thanks for posting this which offers a better explaination than the BBC this afternoon. I still think that Farage has a point about access to money now that most transactions are cashless. I cannot abide Farage and, as the article suggests, he is not necessarily the kind of customer most banks would be trying to entice. ( No pun intended.) The position taken by the 9 banks Farage alleges to have been rejected by seems not unreasonable in the fact of Farage's less that genuous answers to journalists questions but a good point was made about Vince Cable being responsible for closing down facilities for opening accounts with the Post Office.

For me, there is a fundemental principle here and it reflects the same kind of issues of taking away the tools of someone's trade when they leave employment. I would like to see a position where there is a statutory right to have a current account. Business accounts are, as the Independent puts it, a different matter and need to be scrutinized.

As far as Farage is concerned, he has become THE national laughing stock. The interview on Radio 4 this afternoon was amusing as the interview tied Farago up in knots and used his own logic to humiliate him. I will be interested to see where Farago ends up and how low he will ultimately stoop.

 

I think that the biggest shame about this kind of thing is that it discredits the Left. There are plenty of more news worthy issues that should be reported and that the Left needs to concentrate on. This stuff is just a faddish diversion and does not impact on 99.9% of people's lives. The press should be giving him short- thrift. Farago usually gets a good caning in the media. No reason why this kind of nonsense should not receve the same ridicule.

 

Surely the biggest shame about this sort of thing is actually the poor children that are exposed to the narcissistic abusers in charge of them?

Who cares about discrediting the left? They do that themselves every time they open their mouths