I see you have quite a dossier on Farage WW, and if indeed much of it is true, I'm sure you've done your research, from what you've outlined, I agree, an unsavoury character to say the least. Naive it might seem, but he wasn't on my radar in a very meaningful way, sure I knew he was the UKIP man, and whilst I'll admit to being a floating voter, I never floated that way.
However, as others have stated this is bigger and more far reaching than one individual. There are a hell of a lot of people being de banked, and some for the most innocuous reasons, such as the vicar (yes sorry all roads lead back to the vicar right now) but his observations of the very overt nod to PRIDE by his bank really illustrates a very worrying trend if you question that.
Going back to Coutts handling of Farage, the fact that highly over paid top woman Alison Rose was indiscreet enough to discuss NF's account with the BBC man over a dinner is truly shocking in the way she broke client confidentiality there. Whilst they, Coutts, seem to have adopted these new found values that embrace inclusiveness and equality, pity that doesn't extend to the disparity between what the head honcho earns in relation to the staff at the lower echelons. I believe in Denmark for example, the person at the top's salary is limited to not more than 20 times the lowest earner in the company, an aside I know, but personally I'd welcome that model here. How can anyone be worth what she earns and not have the nous to know how she has made an absolute pig's arse ear of her mishandling of Farage's business.
On the subject of nasty people, who have bank accounts, it's all too random their character is irrelevant really, or indeed perceived miscreants such as liking tweets, Ricky Gervais' something along the lines of "old fashioned type of women who don't have a penis" is that anymore reprehensible than Frankie Boyle who was heard, when musing on killing and rape recently said something along the lines of "would I rape Holly Willoughby and kill her afterwards?, no I'd probably rape her first then kill her" That might well have been tongue in cheek but unacceptable when we know what happened to Sarah Everard. Previously he'd made awful, awful comments about Katie Price and her disabled son, how the hell has he not been cancelled God only knows, but there he is on The BBC, darling of The Guardian. My point is there is an utter selectiveness who gets cancelled these days, if you're on the right side of "our values" then you're pretty much ok, The values incidentally selected by those who are driving along much of this new ESG that companies, financial institutions have to embrace if they don't want to lose investment or be blacklisted. Why do we have to be socially engineered by the likes of Stonewall they're a lobby group and they represent a minority, they did sterling work at one time, but now a lot of people don't like what they represent. So why do we have to our thought process interrupted by a retailer's constant reaffirmation that they support PRIDE and LGBTQ when we are out buying Maris Pipers as I was in M&S a couple of weeks ago. To what end ? and why? as for the person who said up thread, if you don't like what your bank or retailer's values, then go elsewhere. The problem is they are all singing from the same hymn sheet these days so it's pretty unavoidable and we the public, as in the case of the vicar are not being unreasonable to question it, because we all remember a time when it wasn't like that. I don't need to know when I'm visiting a bank or retail outlet they support PRIDE and LGBTQ anymore than if such organisations sponsored say Morris Dancers, it is irrelevant to the consumer and not what they are there for. I don't care about any individual's sexuality, I wish them well, have a nice life!
Nowadays, it appears that there is so much deference to PRIDE, why a whole month,? why this rainbow flag everywhere.? As I said up thread, Regent Street in June looked as if some foreign, invading army had taken over, flags unfurled in the way the Nazis draped there's all over the place when they occupied Paris or other major foreign cities
I stated before, and I will say it again, I absolutely supported equal rights for gay people have no problem with gay marriage. I do have concerns about what is being taught in school and how covert that is. Numerous parents have said that there is little transparency when trying to find out about some of the teachings around gender, in particular, those who now put forward the theory that there could be as many as 70 genders. These teachings are not based on scientific fact, they are perceptions that doesn't make it so, anymore than fundamental Christians who believe the world is only a mere 6,000 years old, or indeed some of the stuff I was fed at my catholic schools, unsubstantiated beliefs which should be open to challenge and debate. Somehow we've regressed, it seems just as it was in my day when we got to a questioning age about what we were imbued with and tried to counter argue some of those accepted beliefs, we were met with a "get out" and now I read those pupils who are brave enough to say they only subscribe to the fact that there are two genders are met with same response It's all very retrograde and in some respects sinister if parents don't know what's going on, it's almost tantamount to grooming and whilst I digress somewhat from the OP, it is all part and parcel of the wider landscape.
Some of this social engineering is so insidious that often people are not aware, for example, some of the gender critical women who have written books, like Sharron Davies and Helen Joyce have said their material is difficult to find in say Waterstones, a definite tacit disapproval therefore. How often do people impulsively purchase a book because they happen to be just browsing, but if books are hidden away then that is of course damaging to the author and in itself a form of censorship.
The worst thing about it, what is being foisted upon the general population is under the guise of a progressive drive but to all intents and purposes it has the hallmarks of a regressive one party state mentality. Look no further than Trudeau's handling of the protesting truckers, locking them out of their own bank accounts, just to illustrate how illiberal any democracy can become when the inner meglomaniac emerges from a Pandora's Box of new orthodoxies promoted by un elected pressure groups.
and a xenophobe and the other well he'd just like to commit mass murder!
