GB News on Former Member of the European Parliament & Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP):
Farage on GB News: “One of the key reasons I was debanked was over climate change, where they make it absolutely clear. ‘A particular area to consider is NF stance on climate change it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp ore objectives.’
Now you know that B’Core, of course, B’Core– the organization based in America– that puts pressure on both the public and
private sectors to go for a highly politicized agenda.”
NatWest bank documents obvatined by GB News reveal bank’s admission: “A particular area to consider is NF’s [Nigel Farage’s] stance on climate change — it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp objectives.” …
Conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’ … NatWest staff wanted to ‘throw a milkshake’ at Nigel Farage, a new bombshell document uncovered by GB News can reveal. In a subject access request, conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’ after he was banned from having a Coutts account. …
Former Ukip leader Nigel submitted the subject access request to NatWest, which owns Coutts, unveiling all information the bank holds on him. … In June [2023], Nigel revealed his bank account had been closed by the Natwest Group with no reason given for the closure. … Nigel has since switched to Lloyds Bank.
Watch Farage on UK’s GB News explain:
Farage on GB News: “One of the key reasons I was debanked was over climate change, where they make it absolutely clear. ‘A particular area to consider is NF stance on climate change it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp ore objectives.’
Now you know that B’Core, of course, B’Core– the organization based in America– that puts pressure on both the public and
private sectors to go for a highly politicized agenda.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/natwest-nigel-farage-latest-uk
NatWest staff wanted to ‘throw milkshake’ at Nigel Farage over debanking row, bombshell documents reveal
By Joe Kasper
Published: 23/10/2023 – 18:56 Updated: 23/10/2023 – 19:54
Conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’
NatWest staff wanted to ‘throw a milkshake’ at Nigel Farage, a new bombshell document uncovered by GB News can reveal.
In a subject access request, conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’ after he was banned from having a Coutts account.
Another said they would ‘pay’ to be the person who told him he was being debanked.
Former Ukip leader Nigel submitted the subject access request to NatWest, which owns Coutts, unveiling all information the bank holds on him.
A Freedom of Access request revealed the staggering contempt Coutts staff held for Farage
In one conversation, a bank staffer says: “id throw a milkshake at him if i was approached to open an account for him [sic].”
One worker referenced a BBC article about Nigel having his bank account closed and said: “Hope that knocked him down a peg or 2 [sic].”
Another, which appears to be part of a WhatsApp group, said: “have you all seen Nigel Farages twitter?
“no one will bank him now.
“,have we single handedly drive NF out of the country?![sic]”
In June, Nigel revealed his bank account had been closed by the Natwest Group with no reason given for the closure.
The BBC later claimed he was a customer of Coutts and he had been debanked due to a lack of funds.
But a subject access request from Coutts, famed for being the bank of the Royals, revealed he was ‘exited’ by the bank because he did not ‘align with their values’.
Staff at the exclusive firm claimed he was racist, antisemitic and a “shameless grifter”.
Nigel has since switched to Lloyds Bank.
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Nigel Farage reveals, as we have long suspected, that financial institutions have taken it upon themselves to police the public sphere.
Commitment to ESG requires banks — despite being largely state-owned — to refuse services to people who do not agree with the agenda they… pic.twitter.com/8qWUCTiz7Q
— Ben Pile (@clim8resistance) October 23, 2023
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GB News on Former Member of the European Parliament & Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP):
Farage on GB News: “One of the key reasons I was debanked was over climate change, where they make it absolutely clear. ‘A particular area to consider is NF stance on climate change it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp ore objectives.’
Now you know that B’Core, of course, B’Core– the organization based in America– that puts pressure on both the public and
private sectors to go for a highly politicized agenda.”
NatWest bank documents obvatined by GB News reveal bank’s admission: “A particular area to consider is NF’s [Nigel Farage’s] stance on climate change — it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp objectives.” …
Conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’ … NatWest staff wanted to ‘throw a milkshake’ at Nigel Farage, a new bombshell document uncovered by GB News can reveal. In a subject access request, conversations between bank staff revealed how workers boasted they had ‘driven him out of the country’ after he was banned from having a Coutts account. …
Former Ukip leader Nigel submitted the subject access request to NatWest, which owns Coutts, unveiling all information the bank holds on him. … In June [2023], Nigel revealed his bank account had been closed by the Natwest Group with no reason given for the closure. … Nigel has since switched to Lloyds Bank.
obvatined?
That doesn’t sound nice.
Right, I’d sure hate to get obvatined. Sounds very painful. 🙂
It’s not clear whether one obvatined is a giver or receiver.
It must be a highly technical term- a science term- in uh… climate science. We should ask Mickey Mann. I think I might have heard him use it once- I think he said he was wanted to obvatine all the damn climate skeptics! 🙂
At first I thought it said Ovaltined.
But I was Horlicks-ed.
Now, I like Ovaltine and I like Horlicks. But which one is best?
There’s only one way to find out….
I wouldn’t recommend that to American readers.
Stick to Marmite. You can dissolve it in hot water.
Learn something new every day. What’s the usual routine for Horlicks?
Try Camp coffee
made with hot milk
Sounds like something you might drink — Ovaltine?
Is GBN trying to replace the
GrauniadGuardian?This was a hilarious subthread, but I make so many typos that I can tell all of you exactly how this happened — do it with one badly placed finger getting ‘v’ and ‘b’ at almost the same time then a transposition because the distance from my typing cortex to left hand is shorther than path to right hand. ‘a’ or ‘s’ always wins — Sure, I’m an expert.
as long as we’re in a laughing mood, don’t miss the following, which I just tripped over
Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory
I can’t imagine an actual Trump voter ever reading 800 pages of Queer Feminist Theory.
Why would there ever be a need to produce 800 pages of “Queer Feminist Theory”? You can boil it all down to one sentence, ie: “I’m a homosexual misandrist”.
I wonder if there is anything about Horlicks in there.
How are you spelling that, exactly? Careful now.
I doubt that any have, which is why it’s funny.
If you watched it- and had a sense of humor, you’d realize it’s satire.
My question is: What is a “cishet white man”?
I googled it- it means they’re normal! I suppose that’s part of the humor- a guy like that would never know such a word. Just like all the normal people here who never heard of it.
Apparently mosh has a new editing gig?
Or ‘obvatined’ means to opine on an obvious point? For example: Joe Biden is old and incompetent, she obvatined.
Nemo fiducia….
You can’t
So, another great example of how proud the Dysfunctional Greenies are of their stupidity. Nigel Farage took his money (estimated at between 2 and 4 million pounds) to Lloyds. In the USA California, New York, and Illinois are driving out conservative investors, which they realized too late means the taxpayers are leaving and the tax consumers are arriving. The trend is comical.
Yes, tipping points. California is losing a half million or more tax payers per year.
There’s a joke about Canada, hockey players and hookers. I think a new joke will involve Palestinians too.
New York state is losing almost as many tax payers as CA, most them from NYC itself, though many upstate businesses are giving up as well.
Being hard core leftwingers, the idea of cutting government spending will never occur to them, so they will soon, both be raising taxes, which accelerate the number of productive people who will have not choice but to leave.
As the more productive leave, the far left will gain even more power in the respective state capitals, and nonsense that the moderate Democrats prevented from being enacted, will now become law.
And so on until complete collapse occurs, or the Democrats in Washington bail them out.
The San Francisco mayor is trying to cut budgets by $200m just as crime soars and more spending on police is required.
Maybe.
But an unintended consequence of the migration from Blue to Red state is lots of the Lefties leave too. Example: my state of Arizona, once reliably conservative now has a liberal governor & two liberal senators.
California is exporting its crazy policies – both by transplanting voters, and business regulations that affect out-of-state firms.
They move because of the results of the policies they support, but can’t realize that’s the reason those places are so bad, and they keep supporting the same policies.
Sounds like y’all been thoroughly Californicated… ‘at’s why I left Colorado ’bout 30 years ago :<)
Scissor, EXCELLENT joke. I encourage everyone to look it up.
I consider bank employees engaging in ESG activities to be embezzling, as they are disregarding their fiduciary duties.
It is as improper as an employee making business decisions dictated by the interests of their church.
and shooting themselves in the foot – just ask Disney & Bud Lite
I’ve seen more ads for Disney this year, than I’ve seen in the last 10 years combined.
Yea, william, and Victorias Secret also, because when I want undergarments special, you know, I……………never mind.
Read somewhere that VS is bringing back their ‘angels’ to improve sales.
Oh FFS. VS sells lousy products and that’s why their sales are tanking. Unless they figure out a way to capitalize on leering, they should work on improving what they sell and figure out who their target consumer actually is.
Therapy corner…
“”Dear winter,
It seems that you intend to visit us again this year. I just want to make it clear – because researchers have found that expressing “feelings” about you in the form of a “dear winter” letter could make me less miserable at this time of year – that I did not invite you.””
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/dear-winter-apparently-writing-a-letter-to-you-can-help-me-hate-you-less
Winter is making an appearance in Colorado and the temperature drop from highs to lows over a week’s time will be around 60F or more.
Researchers have found that being a total wuss gets you sympathy
-10C and snow in Calgary, but we had a glorious fall so thats ok
The format of this article and others like it on WUWT make this almost unreadable. It just looks like a sloppy cut and paste job. How many images of Nigel Farage are required for an article btw?
This a reprint from Morano’s website, i keep thinking maybe he needs ADHD meds or something as his posts are such a mess.
Completely detracts from his message.
The repeats of text and photos encourage skipping through the post or just ignoring the whole thing.
I find numerous sites where multiple copy/paste of, I think X (twitter) sources, is off-putting.
Is all this schist being stored digitally at server-farms (the cloud) for future researchers to determine the cause of the fall civilization?
I have nothing against The Gateway Pundit’s website, but this reads like all the articles over there. Every passge repeated at least once.
For some reason, it seems to be a feature of citing from Twitter/X.
The article seemed repetitive. Only one paragraph would have sufficed.
The current rise in European right wing parties and groups is encouraging – I feel, I hope, the pendulum is about to turn on everything the extreme left have decimated in Govt and public institutions and this silly climate crisis hoax is replaced with policies for economic growth, secure energy and less globalisation and control from nefarious international bodies
Lets hope that they are truly right wing parties, and not merely less socialist ones.
Left wing parties like it when there are more right wing parties to split the vote.
The existence of right wing parties pulling votes forces the so called moderate center left to apply a bit more common sense.
See Germany.
Let’s hope that they are not truly right-wing parties. Remember the history of WW II.
National SOCIALIST!? Are saying that socialism is a right-wing value!?
Don’t fall for the Marxist narrative that the Nazties were on the right. They were to the right of Lenin, Stalin and Mao, but a long way from the classical Liberals who used to inhabit the center, and US and UK gov’ts!
Now they’re overrun with totalitarian Marxists as The “March through the Institutions” continues with hardly a hiccup!
The Nazis were of far left persuasion – the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party – most atrocities were carried out by extreme left wing entities
Be very careful of what you hope for.
What I am not hoping for is more of the same extreme left wing division, intolerance and violence – look at those supporting the terrorists Hamas, they’re not right wing
I’m seeing more Democrats rejecting woke dysfunction and embracing policies that were labeled right wing not long ago. This is encouraging!
it does not align with the bank’s purpose or B’Corp objectives.” …
The bank should make its purpose explicit before accepting an account. In a free society it should be able to turn away business if it wishes.
The B’Corp objectives are another matter.
B’Corp certification is based upon:
The B’Corp certification is similar to the Underwriters Laboratory approval or a National Sanitation Foundation decal except that there are legal requirements that go along with the latter two for safety and health reasons. The B’Corp isn’t demonstrating the transparency it demands of others in its evaluations. How is this joke financed? Do they extort funds from those they evaluate?
In most places, there is a legal duty for corporations to maximize shareholder value.
By placing the interests of non-shareholders ahead of that of shareholders, corporations could be breaking the law.
‘In a free society it should be able to turn away business if it wishes.’ Like bakers and web designers?
Definitely. Just more evidence that there is no freedom in a left leaning society.
Only before, not after. Once a business accepts a customer, it has a commitment to that customer.
What if the customer changes the order?
The bakers and web designers have religious views?
Leftist climate creeps are heartless thugs.
“Leftist climate creeps are heartless thugs.”
Be fair; so are the right wing climate creeps.
The ‘Climate Crisis ™’ is not a left wing or right wing thing,
it’s an ill-educated stupidity thing.
That there are “right wingers” who believe in the climate crap is true. However the vast majority of believers are left wing, and pretty much all left wingers buy into the scam.
Almost all of the major leaders of the movement are left wingers and they are quite vocal in their desire to use the movement to advance the far left agenda.
Black/White, Up/Down, In/Out, Right/Left, is people’s thinking really so binary? In politics the proles are encouraged to think that way, to go along with one of just two parties, don’t need to expand the club too much. Even when there’s really only one big government party. The factional charade keeps the voters from wandering off the reservation. A parliamentary system tolerates multiple parties so election winners must form coalitions and the losers get some say in what happens. The current Iraqi government, designed by an American, is a parliamentary one. The Republican/Democrat division is just a battle of egos.
The Left wields climate alarmism as a weapon. Unfortunately, there are some useful idiots, aka RINOs, that are only too happy to go along with the scam in order to win the approval of corporate media.
Yes. It is a confluence of interests.
The environmentalists, businesses, MSM, academics, politicians (on both sides, but Left >> Right), anti-capitalists, nations, and assorted grifters ALL are using a purported climate crisis to accomplish goals unatainable otherwise.
It most certainly is a left wing thing.
Not in the UK, most members of parliament (left, right & center ) endorse the CCC (climate change crap).
It’s time for a remake of Fahrenheit 451 with special attention given to the banking and media sectors instead of fire and police. The chase scenes are still appropriate now with young professionals profiting from the chase and one-upmanship chances for promotion. The Greta Gangs come to mind.
Story tip
https://electroverse.info/top-climate-scientist-slams-climate-alarm-carbon-dioxide/
I stand with Prof Lindzen
Story tip
https://electroverse.info/powerful-arctic-north-america-cold-snowy-australia-and-new-zealand-25-sunspots/
Get ready for the cold
hallmark of totalitarianism – censorship and persecution – in the US a person was imprisoned for 60 days for posting a joke on the internet that was offensive to Hillary
Got a link to that? I strongly suspect that there was a threat mixed in with that joke.
I think there are several such stories, most involving some sort of election (votes) shenanigans. One involved getting people to vote with their cell phones such that they didn’t actually vote in a proper manner. This was considered election fraud.
Someone was recently sentenced for creating the “vote on <some day other than election day>” meme. Perhaps he’s referring to that?
Tony, you are correct, but don’t forget that only the memer who targeted Hilary voters was charged and convicted. Other memes that targeted Trump voters received no such treatment; they may have received Brownie points instead!
Lawsuit? Nigel?
That was my question, too.
This “bank” has peculiar views of “climate change”, a subject about which it knows absolutely NOTHING. Yet it takes action based on its “climate change” position? Absolutely nuts! Do those morons realize how obvious their ignorant political bias is? Do they care?
Humans using fossil fuels have ZERO impact on global climate change, notwithstanding contrary claims of the ignorant IPCC. It’s all in the numbers going back to the late 19th century. It’s also in the ice core numbers that show climate is driving changing atmospheric CO2, not the other way around, thanks to Earth’s surface being 71% covered by oceans. It’s also in the geologic figures going back more than half a billion years.
There IS NO CORRELATION between changing atmospheric CO2 and changing global temperature (aka, “climate”)! Unless, of course, you’re an IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Clowns) pseudo-scientist who cherry-picks a serendipitous snippet of time where their specious pseudo-scientific theory appears accurate. But the overwhelming evidence unequivocally demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that there is absolutely no correlation between changing CO2 and changing climate.
No correlation means causation is IMPOSSIBLE.
These “banks” (pseudo-banks?) don’t display the intelligence that would enable them to understand that important bit of real science.
Evidently, for these “banks” it’s all about forcing people to do what is best for oligarchs and the people can rot in Hades if they don’t like it.
I’d say “good riddance” to any such “bank”!
Or one just “corrects” the data to prove the point.
Wouldn’t it be nice if banks tended to proper banking?
Yet more childish behaviour………
headline:Bedford MP stopped from boarding flight ‘because name is Mohammad’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67204679
I expect the boss of Air Canada will ‘volunteer their resignation‘ in same way as the fugly bag who ran Farage’s bank walked away with nearly £2½ million
nice work eh
According to the article, he was pre-selected for additional security checks, and allegedly one of the reasons was his given name. He was allowed to board after being questioned.
The article does not list what all the criteria for extra questioning is. Also the only source for the claim that his given name was a factor is the MPs testimony.
Mohammed is a traditional Bedfordshire name going back centuries. Salt of the Earth.
Any relation by any chance to the CEO of Coutts Bank that Farrage got the letter from…Mohammad Kamal Syed…who call himself Mo (now we know why)!
If this is a publicly held corporation, is there the possibility of a shareholder suit against management. Moves like this do not maximize shareholder value.
Worse than that.
Coutt’s is owned by Nat West Bank. Nat West is to a great extent owned by the taxpayer following 2008.
Coutts used to be private but is now owned by the NatWest group which is publicly traded.
But, but, but they were rescued by the UK government after the 2008 crisis who still own 39%
The chair of both Banks eventually resigned over the Farage affair, but I suspect this was only because of a bit of political pressure from above to avoid too much embarrassment and ongoing publicity for Farage.
As far as I’m aware the Chief Execs of NatWest and Coutts resigned but the chairman and board members, who were supporting the NatWest Chief Exec right up until the moment she resigned, are still there. But I may have missed something. The ex Chief Exec of NatWest was reputedly in line for a big pay-off despite resigning and despite having blatantly broken client confidentiality, something which would probably (and deservedly) get a more junior member of staff the boot. Quite why she should have been in line for any pay-off is a mystery.
I’ve been a NatWest customer for over 40 years and have contemplated going elsewhere – the problem being that just about all corporate bodies have signed up to the climate change cr*p so where do you go?
It’s past the time to fight back by boycotting all ESG affiliated businesses. Any business that thinks they can control their customers’ personal opinions and beliefs doesn’t deserve to be used.
I generally don’t approve of targeting individuals but making a list of the worst offending companies seems fair game to me.
After all, that’s what the other side have been doing for years, often while getting them to throw some Danegeld their way.
The libertarian in me says a private business should be able to discriminate against anybody for any reason. But banks are highly regulated already. They should be required to provide services with anybody involved in a legal business. It should be illegal to discriminate against somebody for their political beliefs, even if you find those believes disgusting.
The real problem is having to deal with banks at all. In the US an employee can’t demand payment in specie or even bogus fiat bills, “legal tender for all debts, public and private”. Banks effectively run the country and the health and well-being of the country is measured by the profitability and share prices of the biggest banks. They are parties to the national oligarchy that is also academia, government, media and the legal profession. The rest of us are the neo-serfs that run their errands and pull the levers on their scarcer and scarcer machinery so we can digitally witness sporting events and make the mortgage payments on homes with off-white wall-to-wall carpeting.
These bank employees are discriminating against someone based on their own deeply held RELIGIOUS beliefs! I don’t know about England, but that is illegal here in the US!
The problem there is, what business in the US isn’t highly regulated. Even small private firms have to hire lawyers to help them through the morass.
“Climate” and “science” used together is a contradiction in terms. The IPCC should never have been commissioned since it is a political body not a bona fide scientific organization. Likewise climate scientist is a contradiction in terms. Climate scientists are individuals who stand to benefit from spouting climate agenda information. I.e., this is about politics and global organizations controlling the messaging.
Not sure I agree. I’m confident there is such a thing as climate science. It’s just not widespread and is actively suppressed by those who stand to gain from the scam which uses the same name.
If the employees care more about press coverage than business consequences, then there will be business consequences.
Apart from the political attack on Nigel by Nat West for his views & political activity, the behaviour of Nat West’s staff was totally unprofessional with all their insulting comments. It was totally disgusting. I’m glad he is now back in action with an account with Lloyds.
They were downright proud of their ability to use their positions to persecute someone they disagreed with.
Access to money and resources being determined by your social credit score is what they are implementing. A global totalitarian state is what they are after. The brainwashed are goose stepping to their marching orders.
Independent information sources are the only thing standing in their way. A critical mass isn’t buying into it thanks to those sources. Bless Anthony and the critical thinkers!