Nigel Farage

[ska invita]

So for a car analogy. He can no longer afford to own and maintain a Bentley, and in his mind, he has been banned by Bentley from owning one and is no longer allowed to drive.
But nothing stops him from getting a 20-year Ford Fiesta apart from being a frog-faced egotist.

No, no, no, it's different. It's called a Natwest Executive Savers account now.
They've rebadged it you fool!

 

[gosub]

So for a car analogy. He can no longer afford to own and maintain a Bentley, and in his mind, he has been banned by Bentley from owning one and is no longer allowed to drive.
But nothing stops him from getting a 20-year Ford Fiesta apart from being a frog-faced egotist.

It does take someone rather special to take the pretentious prestige of somewhere like Coutts and use it to make all and sundry aware that he is in diminished circumstances

 

[Storm Fox]

It does take someone rather special to take the pretentious prestige of somewhere like Coutts and use it to make all and sundry aware that he is in diminished circumstances

We've had the Space-Karen.
Now we have the Coutts-Karen.

 

[MrSki]

 

[quiet guy]

Maybe he can start a crowd funder like Brendan Clarke-Smith

 

[two sheds]

A creative instance of the Streisand Effect: get your bank to advertise your financial problems

 

[Sue]

We've had the Space-Karen.
Now we have the Coutts-Karen.

Can we leave out the 'Karen' thing cos it's shit? (And yes, I get the Elon Musk reference, doesn't mean we need to go there, eh?)

 

[Storm Fox]

Can we leave out the 'Karen' thing cos it's shit? (And yes, I get the Elon Musk reference, doesn't mean we need to go there, eh?)

Fair enough:
How about 'Too poor for Coutts - multiple by-election losing, obnoxious, racist, entitled lying arsehole'

 

[Lurdan]

FTs take:
Nigel Farage downgraded from Coutts to NatWest - Financial Times (archived)

However, two people close to the situation noted that Coutts — once known as the “Queen’s bank” — had financial eligibility criteria that could explain an account closure: clients are required to save more than £3mn or borrow or invest more than £1mn. NatWest, which is part of the same group, has no such criteria.
One of those people said Farage had redeemed his Coutts mortgage earlier, reducing his business with the bank below the threshold.
Asked about this, Farage said: “You seem to know more than me.” He confirmed he had paid off his Coutts mortgage early and declined to say whether he now met the criteria.

 

[Sue]

Fair enough:
How about 'Too poor for Coutts - multiple by-election losing, obnoxious, racist, entitled lying arsehole'

I was thinking Coutt-price something but that'll do!

 

[Smangus]

What happens when the banks turn their guns on us?

You get shot. Only you mind.

 

[Orang Utan]

What happens when the banks turn their guns on us?

What guns?

 

[Ax^]

What happens when the banks turn their guns on us?

we use farrage as a human shield

come I'd you had a fun who would you shoot first

I'd empty the clip just to be on the safe side, he survived a plane crash

 

[gosub]

Unfortunatly seems like must have paid off a £1mil + mortgage in ten years

 

[pbsmooth]

Yes, I don't for a minute think the cunt is short of money. But the story is good grist to his mill.

 

[Lurdan]

Twitter link

Spoiler: Text of tweet

Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin • Jul 4
[Image of Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield as Pam and Stan Herbert]
"The wife and I couldn’t help noticing, Nigel, that you have an ordinary Natwest card whereas we have a gold Coutts card. That says to me that we are considerably richer than you."
9:54 PM · Jul 4, 2023· 24.2K Views

 

[existentialist]

Twitter link

Spoiler: Text of tweet

Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin • Jul 4
[Image of Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield as Pam and Stan Herbert]
"The wife and I couldn’t help noticing, Nigel, that you have an ordinary Natwest card whereas we have a gold Coutts card. That says to me that we are considerably richer than you."
9:54 PM · Jul 4, 2023· 24.2K Views

I used to do variations on this with a Brummie choir member. Mostly, it got laughs...

 

[gosub]

Not entirely sure Kath Burke understands banks

 

[Orang Utan]

Not entirely sure Kath Burke understands banks

Not entirely sure gosub understands jokes

 

[Ax^]

 

[teqniq]

'Almost libellous':



Nigel Farage’s Coutts account closed as bank felt he did not ‘align with their values’

 

[ska invita]

it is funny, but it is worrying, this :
" if this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the ‘correct’ views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
is a fair point and absolutely a possible future for us all

 

[Raheem]

it is funny, but it is worrying, this :
" if this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the ‘correct’ views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
is a fair point and absolutely a possible future for us all

It's not really a fair point. Garage has has been excluded from having an account at Coutts, and probably not primarily for the reasons he is claiming.

(ETA: spot the contribution from spell-check)

 

[Ax^]

it is funny, but it is worrying, this :
" if this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the ‘correct’ views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
is a fair point and absolutely a possible future for us all

he was offered another account in an associated bank hardly not taking away the right to free speech
his image did not match the image Coutts want to project into the world fair enough

don't remember Nigel crying when the bakery in Belfast refused to bake the gay cake quite the opposite

odd the people who want to give people right to ban people based on free market and freedom of speech criteria
get pissy when its applied to themselves

 

[LDC]

it is funny, but it is worrying, this :
" if this situation is left unchecked, we will sleepwalk towards a China-style social credit system in which only those with the ‘correct’ views are allowed to fully participate in society.”
is a fair point and absolutely a possible future for us all

What? Have you gone all conspiracy?

 

[ska invita]

What? Have you gone all conspiracy?

What bit of my post is problematic to you? The theoretical possibility of GB adopting a system already in existence elsewhere? What's happening in China is the logical conclusion on a strong state in the modern technological era. We are closer to it than you think.

The protest bill that has gone through is shocking. We already had an arrest the year for someone holding up a blank piece of paper. Police use of facial recognition edges ever forward. Just takes a good crisis and some remaining defences will tumble down.

No need for conspiracy

 

[ska invita]

It's not really a fair point. Garage has has been excluded from having an account at Coutts, and probably not primarily for the reasons he is claiming.

(ETA: spot the contribution from spell-check)

Is the reported document a fake?

 

[Raheem]

What bit of my post is problematic to you? The theoretical possibility of GB adopting a system already in existence elsewhere? What's happening in China is the logical conclusion on a strong state in the modern technological era. We are closer to it than you think.

The protest bill that has gone through is shocking. We already had an arrest the year for someone holding up a blank piece of paper. Police use of facial recognition edges ever forward. Just takes a good crisis and some remaining defences will tumble down.

No need for conspiracy

It's perhaps not absurd to idly speculate that something that happens in one place on earth might one day happen somewhere else.

What is absurd is suggesting that NF's experience with Coutts might represent the opening of some sort of hellmouth.

 

[Raheem]

Is the reported document a fake?

It's not clear what the document is, and a very short extract without any conclusion or summary is all that the lying bullshitter has made public.

 

[steveo87]

'Almost libellous':

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