Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola
@Frances_Coppola
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Writer & speaker. Author of The Case for People's QE (Polity). Coming soon: The Absolute Essentials of Banking (Routledge). Sings a bit too.
United Kingdom
Joined January 2010
The house is empty without you. Even the spiders have gone into hiding. The cat stands by your chair and cries. But spring will come, and with it, the flowers, the spiders and the bees. And you, for you are one with nature. Sleep well, my darling.
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Deliberate assassination of a journalist doing her job. Blatant war crime. But no-one holds Israel to account.
Palestinian journalist Salma al-Qadoumi was shot in the back by Israeli occupation forces while covering the invasion in Khan Yunis today.
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Israel is ordering the evacuation of the capital city of a sovereign state so it can bomb it to rubble.
🚨🇮🇱ISRAEL ISSUES EVACUATION WARNING TO BEIRUT RESIDENTS AHEAD OF STRIKES. Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari announced that early evacuation warnings are being issued to residents of Beirut and other areas in Lebanon. The warnings target sites linked to Hezbollah's
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How about you report the names of the Palestinian civilians burned alive by the IDF last night?.
BREAKING: The four IDF soldiers killed in a Hezbollah airstrike on an Israeli military base in the north of the country have been named. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Shall we call this by its name? It is terrorism. This is a terror attack, and the thugs are terrorists.
Taxi drivers attacked, Mosques targeted, & now frightened passengers on a bus. The casual & respectable Islamophobia & anti-migrant racism from Tory, Labour & Reform politicians - amplified & normalised by Musk & BBC has allowed fascism to grow.
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We need the same in the UK.
BREAKING: Australia has introduced a new bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $20,000 . This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.
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If you genuinely want to evacuate a population from an area for humanitarian reasons, you don't separate men and older boys from women and children, tie their hands and take them off to an unknown destination, and send women and children on a forced march with no food or water.
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The IDF has been faking documents. Well I never.
The Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists says the IDF documents claiming to prove the journalists are terrorists "don't appear to be credible".
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By the same token, it's totally fine for Hezbollah to raze Tel Aviv, because the IDF is based there, thus using civilians as human shields. And almost all Israelis become soldiers at age 18. You haven't thought this through, have you?.
In war it's impossible to fully prevent harm to civilians - especially when #Hezbollah operates in Beirut's densest civilian areas. Some impacted by this operation may be civilians due to #Hezbollah's use of civilians as human shields and their use of soldiers when age 18. (3/3).
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I don't think Israel has the right to defend itself against the people whose homes and lands it stole.
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On Saturday, I received a letter from the DWP telling my partner about changes to Winter Fuel Payment. My partner died on Thursday 19th September. I informed the DWP of his death on Friday 27th September using the online "Tell Us Once" service. 1/.
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They have a point. The BBC was falling over itself to report Reform's wins, but completely ignored the Greens.
THE Green Party have submitted a complaint to the BBC after it failed to broadcast the party’s historic election wins during its coverage of the General Election results.
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Astonishing lies from Lipman'. Let's debunk them. 1) The whole basis of the Zionist claim to the former British mandate of Palestine was, and is, based on Jews still having "right of return" after 2000 years. 2) Zionists were not given the whole of Palestine. The UN gave them.
Maureen Lipman: "Leftist anti-Israel protests are close to fascism.". So what characterizes fascism?👇. Maureen Lipman here dismissive, hostile, bigoted.
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It is not clear to me why the Chief Rabbi should have "concerns" about the UK Government upholding international law.
🚨 NEW: The Chief Rabbi has requested a meeting with Keir Starmer to discuss his concerns about the government's stance on Israel after the UK withdrew its objection to the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. [@SkyNews].
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Deport her.
"Iran will pay for this mistake.". Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely says "all options are on the table" when asked if Israel plans to attack Iran directly. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Nigel. you bought a licence to use their platform to carry out YOUR OWN CHECKS. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reform paid a vetting company £144k to carry out candidate checks. Not a single piece of work was delivered. Colin Bloom has links to the Tory party & has very serious questions to answer. Lawyers have been instructed. We do not rule out police action.
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Laura Kuenssberg talking absolute twaddle on #PoliticsLive. Repeating the "no money left" nonsense from 2020. Talking about "maxed-out national credit cards". @BBCPolitics this is an utter disgrace and totally irresponsible. Please educate your reporters in basic economics.
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I thought you would all like to know that Richard Tice has dropped his threatened legal action against me. I have admitted nothing and paid him nothing. Many thanks to my wonderful legal team for sorting this out quickly and efficiently.
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Israel killed hundreds of people in north Gaza overnight. It was one of the biggest massacres of the war. There is not even a mention of it on @BBCNews.
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@JuliaHB1 If the motivation of the killer doesn't matter to the families of those killed, why did you make it the main point of your original tweet?.
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Can a sitting MP be arrested for incitement to violence?.
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Without wishing to stir the pot further. Nigel Farage's personal finances are not in the public domain unless he chooses to put them there, but his company finances very much are. I have been doing some digging. 1/.
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These people are insane.
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And as a final insult, this second genius told me to label the letter "Deceased" and return it to the DWP. What is the point of a "Tell Us Once" service if @DWPgovuk has to be told twice? . I am not going to do any such thing. The letter is going in the bin. /end of rant.
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Every time that woman opens her mouth she reveals what a deeply unpleasant person she is. This is completely toxic.
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch blames people from ‘peasant backgrounds’ for grooming gangs abuse. “There is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries”, the Tory leader told GB News. Story ⤵️.
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This is a lie. The evidence produced by Farage shows the account was closed for commercial reasons. Alison Rose resigned because she breached client confidentiality. Stop spreading lies.
It is right that the NatWest CEO has resigned. This would never have happened if NatWest had not taken it upon itself to withdraw a bank account due to someone’s lawful political views. That was and is always unacceptable. I hope the whole financial sector learns from this.
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Ok, he's done it. Sent a letter before action. Among other things, the letter alleges that I am also defaming Nigel Farage by refusing to back down over the facts of the Coutts case. This is beyond ridiculous.
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I am sick and tired of hearing ignoramuses like Bernard Jenkin claim that the Millenium bug didn't exist. IT DID. I worked on Y2K projects. We found bugs and we fixed them. It's because we did such a good job that people who weren't involved think there was never a problem.
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Good morning Nigel. When will you explain to the people who have paid £25 to become "members" of Reform UK Ltd that it has no members, only shareholders and directors, and that they are neither of these?. And when will you apologise for misleading them?.
Good morning @KemiBadenoch. When will you apologise to me and 146,077 other members of Reform UK?.
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Dear @TomHunt1988, your statement on #politicslive that asylum seekers are obliged to seek asylum in the first safe country they enter is wrong. There is no such requirement under either the Geneva Convention on Refugees or UK law.
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Oh ffs. Coutts CEO has stepped down. This was totally unnecessary and imho wrong. Should have waited for the FCA investigation. WTF do we have regulators for if "regulation" is now going to be done by a screeching mob?.
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To all the trolls telling me I should apologise: are you too dim to understand "I told the truth", or is "truth" a foreign concept to you?. I will not apologise, because I have nothing to apologise for.
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Dear @reformparty_Uk, you say you want to get "up to 2 million" economically inactive people "back to work", and you think this will save £15 billion in benefit payments. Here's a reality check. 1/.
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Brilliant timing.
Edvard Munch's The Scream comes to the British Library in April
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Does Britain really need such a large right-wing media sector with many low-quality publications?.
Does Britain really need such a large universities sector, with many globally lower ranked institutions substantially funded by overseas students accessing the "graduate route" to work visas? My column
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A twat speaking with a posh accent is still a twat.
A girl dressed as a boy is still a girl.
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Haha. Seems I've rattled Tice and his followers.
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She told me to redial and press option 2. I asked her to put me through to the WFP team. She refused to do so, insisted I had to redial, and hung up. She was, to be frank, bloody rude. Is this how you treat bereaved people, @DWPgovuk? 8/.
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"Sedition". What century is this?.
Nine leaders of the Catalan independence movement were jailed on Monday for sedition over their role in a failed independence bid, sparking mass protests across the region. Read more here:
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Good god. Elon Musk called Jess Phillips a "rape genocide enabler". Not only was this a despicable libel, it put her life at risk. Have you forgotten what happened to Jo Cox and David Amess? Keir Starmer was totally right to say Musk had crossed a line.
In what I think was the worst, most tone deaf statement I've ever heard from Keir Starmer, the PM seemed to think the main issue isn't the sexual abuse of minors but the honour of Jess Phillips.
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It's cheaper to run public services in-house than to rely on the private sector to provide them. Who knew?.
Thurrock Council plans to cut spending on children’s services by £2 million. This includes opening a new council-run children’s home, to reduce spending on private companies.
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The RFU's decision was made by men, not women, and it overruled the women's clubs who were perfectly happy for trans women to play in their teams and were competently managing the safeguarding issues. Women's voices have been silenced and their competence denied.
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For a PM who has been a Cabinet minister in every government since 2014 to brief out "we don't understand how gilts and bonds work, it's not our job to do so" is nothing short of astonishing.
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No-one in the UK has voted to withdraw from the ECHR. It was not in the 2016 referendum, and nor is it in the manifesto on which you were elected in 2019. And there is no evidence of majority suppprt for such a move. You have no electoral mandate for this whatsoever.
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I'm sorry folks, but I've had to change most of the threads to "only people I follow can reply". There are just too many trolls and bots now, and the abuse I'm getting is horrible. So I'm taking steps to protect myself. I hope you understand.
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Good to hear Angela Knight on #r4today correcting Farage's assertion that people don't have the right to a bank account. They do. What they don't have a right to is a premium account at an elite bank for rich people, however much they may think they deserve one.
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There was a fully independent public inquiry. It published 19 reports, the most recent in 2022. The Tories ignored every single one of its recommendations. This is the real story, not the political mud-slinging by the right-wing press.
If @Keir_Starmer has nothing to hide and is wholly innocent he shouldn't fear a fully independent inquiry should he? Please like and share
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Ukraine is an independent sovereign state. It is free to choose its own alliances. So too are Western countries. Ukraine's choice of friends IN NO WAY justifies or excuses Russia's decision to invade. Russia alone is culpable for this war. Not Ukraine, and not the West.
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Absolute outrage to compare British people voting Brexit to Ukrainians defending their country against a foreign invasion. The EU never dropped bombs or fired shells at British cities. It never sent tanks on to our streets. Johnson should recant and apologise to Ukraine.
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Carrie Grace at @BBCNews has just claimed that "the rules say" refugees must claim asylum in the first safe country they come to. This is NOT TRUE.
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on the contrary, if your employer wants to rent office space from you, they should pay for it.
This minister is 100% right. If you want the continued benefit of working from home then don’t expect a salary that was designed for staffers commuting into the office.
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@StopAntisemites @Walgreens Wearing a keffiyeh is not illegal. But doxxing a Palestinian employee and trying to get her dismissed looks very much like racial harassment, which is.
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There is no "Coutts scandal". The Telegraph has misreported the reasons for Coutts' decision and slandered the bank. As have you. The memos released by, of all people, Nigel Farage, reveal that the reason for the closure of his account was that he had paid off his mortgage.
The Coutts' scandal involving @Nigel_Farage is a disgraceful scandal. Banks are not here to police free speech, what has been revealed is disturbing and undermines the very values of living in an open and free society.
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Farage and his mates are now trying to bully the CEO of Coutts into resigning his job without waiting for the FCA review. They are very keen on cancelling people they don't like, aren't they?.
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Dear friends, it is a week today since the death of my partner Alan Whittaker (@BigAlStrood). The post mortem showed he died from a pulmonary embolism caused by DVT. Alan was an avid wildlife photographer. He took this picture of a kestrel three days before his death.
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I am not, and never have been, a shill for bankers. That is an outrageous and defamatory allegation which you should withdraw.
I understand banking as much as you do. The difference is I’m not a shill for bankers.
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Once again, news media are reporting Farage's spin instead of doing actual journalism. It's an utter disgrace. Journos, DO YOUR JOBS. It should not be me checking this out on a voluntary basis in my spare time. You are paid to do this.
s website explicitly says it does not perform background checks on behalf of clients. Nor could it, since the company behind is a tiny software development company with seven employees.
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Putin has cranked up the troll and bot farms. #Istandwithrussia is trending. Particularly nasty that many of the Russian trolls are masquerading as Black people to play the race card. There is definitely a racist element to this crisis, but Putin is no friend to Black people.
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Brexit was, is, and will remain the stupidest decision made by the British people in my lifetime.
New Brexit checks to cost UK business £2bn and fuel inflation
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Men in dresses complain that other men in dresses re-created a painting of men in dresses.
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Oh you poor thing. pointing out, with evidence, that your company's debts far exceeded its assets for two years running, and expressing an opinion this could have been why your bank terminated the relationship, isn't defamation, dearie.
Frances for someone who claims to be finance writer, you failed basic test over checking going concern statement in accounts. Page 6. Now, please delete your highly defamatory tweet with suitable apology to me, or you will hear from Wedlake Bell, my lawyers, on Monday with pre.
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Interesting that those being hammered by the Right for speaking the truth about the Coutts affair are all women. @carolvorders @maitlis @SangitaMyska @MarinaPurkiss Solidarity!.
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I pointed out that the DWP had already been informed of my partner's death and asked why they had sent the letter. The genius told me that even though my partner was deceased he would still be entitled to WFP if he claimed Pension Credit. I kid you not. 6/
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She told me that to ensure as many people as possible find out about the changes to WFP, DWP is ignoring official notifications of death and literally spamming the relatives of deceased WFP claimants. I am horrified. /13.
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1. NatWest Group has caved in, cancelling the notice on Nigel Farage's Coutts accounts and stumping up compensation. 2. The NatWest Board and its Chair remain in place and Nigel Farage seems to have stopped demanding they all resign. Anyone see a connection?.
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Arron Banks truly is an objectionable individual.
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Thank you @BBCNews for giving me a platform to explain what I found in my review of Nigel Farage's SAR document and why perceived reputational risk is a legitimate commercial reason for terminating a customer relationship.
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And this is where it becomes really, really bad. When she returned, she told me that the DWP was sending the letters to everyone who had ever made a claim, including people who had died. So thousands of bereaved spouses, partners & relatives are receiving these letters. /12.
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There were multiple inquiries. The previous Tory Government, in which @KemiBadenoch was Minister for Women and Equalities, ignored the findings of all of them. Now she's calling for another inquiry?. What mammoth hypocrisy from this dreadful woman.
🚨🇬🇧TORY LEADER: INQUIRY WILL EXPOSE POLITICIANS WHO COVERED UP CHILD RAPE GANG ABUSE. Kemi Badenoch:. “It was a scandal made possible by the collusion and cover-ups of officials, the police and politicians who were more concerned about community relations than about victims and
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Notice the headgear of many of the women.
A wonderful film from England in 1901. Every time you watch this, you’ll notice a new personality. I wonder how many of these people’s descendants we pass on the street every day.
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For a KC and a former Attorney General to describe the Human Rights Act as a "criminal rights act" is wholly unacceptable. Braverman must not only be sacked, but struck off as a lawyer. #BravermanOut.
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I recall Andrea Leadsom dismissing Theresa May as of less worth because she was childless. It was vicious nonsense when she said it, and it's equally vicious nonsense when an American man says it.
No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue.
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Perhaps Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson won't forgive JK Rowling for her transphobia. Has she thought of that?.
How did they not know that if when you were child you acted in movies based on someone’s books about magic you cannot for the rest of your life disagree with any opinions held by the author of those books? .Like that’s just obvious basic common sense.
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"The truth matters, Nigel. And the truth is that Coutts ended your relationship with them for legitimate commercial reasons. No-one should have to apologise for telling the truth. I certainly won’t.".My statement on Nigel Farage and Coutts.
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@sophielouisecc How do you know they are on benefits? Indeed, how do you know they are single mums?.
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She's the Home Secretary. It very much is a matter for her.
Interviewer: Will Netanyahu be arrested if he comes to the UK?. Govt minister Yvette Cooper: "That's not a matter for me. ". "The UK is a signatory of the ICC, don't we have to respect its ruling?". ". it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment"
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Good grief. Where was Simmonds when these people were attacked?
David Simmonds: We’ve Been Very Lucky the UK Hasn’t Seen the Kind of Incidents That We See in American Politics
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@APompliano @elonmusk Less than 40% of bitcoin mining uses renewable energy. 75% of bitcoin miners use *some* renewable energy. Please tell the truth, Pomp.
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My partner's state pension has already been stopped. I did not understand why they were writing to him about WFP, since clearly they knew he was dead. 2/.
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More lies. Farage's Coutts account was not "arbitrarily terminated for legal political or personal views". It was terminated because the bank regarded him as a serious reputational risk and he didn't meet published financial criteria. He was offered a NatWest account instead.
Now that Dame Alison Rose has resigned as CEO of NatWest Bank its for the Government to decide whether the Chairman and composition of the Board are appropriate under the current circumstances and if not to effect changes to give confidence to the public that bank accounts will.
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@yo_wonderful @yanisvaroufakis Where would they make this state? Israel refuses to end its illegal occupation of their land.
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You did some teaching as a doctoral candidate at Cambridge, and some teaching as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard. But you have never held a university teaching post or done any significant academic research. You didn't even complete your doctorate. Universities are not schools.
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I don't.
Richard Tice says the majority of the British people want to leave the ECHR. I don't. Do you?
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So if I am reading this right, the Barclay brothers are promoting Boris as "the only person who can save us", but Murdoch wants to dump him in favour of Gove. Media oligarchs fighting for control of government. And the battlefield, unusually, is the broadsheets, not the tabloids.
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You were not de-banked. Your account was closed because you didn't meet published financial criteria and you were insanely risky to their reputation - which you have just proved. You've got an exceedingly swelled head, thinking you should have a personal reply from the CEO.
It was only a matter of time before Peter Flavel, Coutts CEO, stood down. The ultimate responsibility for the dossier de-banking me for my political views lies with him. I even wrote to Mr Flavel twice before going public and didn’t receive an acknowledgment.
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1) Nigel Farage's ability to bank has not been restricted.2) His Coutts account was not closed because of his "lawful political opinions", but because he posed a reputational risk to the bank and wasn't earning them any money.3) 95% of people don't qualify for Coutts accounts.
Restricting someone's ability to bank based on their lawful political opinions has no place in a civilised and free society. If it happened to Farage, it could happen to you. Freedom of speech is not a negotiable plus - it's essential to how our democracy functions.
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I need this to be more widely known. The BBC is wrong to treat people they've brought in as subject matter experts as protagonists in a highly-charged debate.
@meldrew21 @KirstyWark I was originally invited as a subject expert. I was meant to explain the issues from a banking perspective, and then they were going to have a debate about the politics of it between two other people. Then they got Farage and suddenly I became his protagonist.
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And so it came to pass.
“I confidently predict the FCA will look at this and say ‘Nothing to look at here’”. “it is reasonable that law abiding citizens can be de-banked and become non-people?” . Banking analyst Frances Coppola and Nigel Farage dispute Coutts approach .
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Everything is falling apart, isn't it.
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@DeborahMeaden It's even worse. They paid a software company for a license to use its automated software to perform their own checks. Then they didn't get the information and permissions they needed to perform the checks. And now they are blaming the software company. You could't make it up.
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3) The Balfour Declaration did not "give" Palestine to the Jews or create a Jewish state. The British Government had no power to do any such thing. The Declaration merely said the British Government would use its best endeavours to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
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I've posted here a thread with links to the independent inquiry reports from Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, and Oldham, and the report from the Jay public inquiry into child sexual abuse. The Tory govt acted on NONE of them. Let's blame the right people, shall we?.
@EuroDale So read the reports, then. Here's the report from the public inquiry into child sexual abuse. It was published in 2022.
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No, Nigel Farage is not the "Rosa Parks of private banking". That's utterly disgusting.
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Israel kettled a million Palestinian civilians in a tiny strip of land, then bombed the sh*t out of them. Are you seriously going to tell me this isn't genocide?.
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I have made no such accusation, Richard. Withdraw this allegation or you will find yourself the subject of a defamation suit. I suggest you look up the definition of the term "insolvency" in the context of a balance sheet analysis. This might help.
Frances,. Please confirm which lawyers you are using. You have accused me as a director of trading insolvently, which is totally incorrect, as the accounts clearly show. You have shown no contrition nor apology, instead sought to make additional capital out of your comments.
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You're going to legislate to ensure everyone can have a Coutts account? Seriously?. Paypal isn't a bank, you dipstick.
We cannot allow banks to essentially cancel people based on their views. I am prepared to change the law to ensure a proper right to access banking services. My thoughts for @ConHome:
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So by denying Palestinians' right of return and rejecting the authority of the United Nations, Lipman destroyed the entire legal basis for the existence of the State of Israel. What an absolute genius she is.
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I suppose the British had to discover how bad hard Brexit really is in order to understand why being in the single market and customs union is a good idea.
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Farage's target of zero net migration relies on the idea that there is a large pool of low-skilled British workers ready and willing to be deployed into crucial sectors to replace immigrants. But there is no such pool. The UK is at full employment and has been for some years. 1/.
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