Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I recall that getting refused. But as I'm not a twatfollower I have no up to date info.briantrumpet said:orraloon said:
Brexshit benefit, remove freedom of movement. And nobody else wants him anyway. Pr1ck.veronese68 said:Didn't the twunt say if Brexit was a failure he was leaving the UK? He's said it's a failure, why is he still here?
Didn't he claim German residency to get an EU passport?1 -
Maybe one for the irony thread, although the way German politics is going at the moment he'd probably be received with open arms.briantrumpet said:orraloon said:
Brexshit benefit, remove freedom of movement. And nobody else wants him anyway. Pr1ck.veronese68 said:Didn't the twunt say if Brexit was a failure he was leaving the UK? He's said it's a failure, why is he still here?
Didn't he claim German residency to get an EU passport?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
orraloon said:
I recall that getting refused. But as I'm not a twatfollower I have no up to date info.briantrumpet said:orraloon said:
Brexshit benefit, remove freedom of movement. And nobody else wants him anyway. Pr1ck.veronese68 said:Didn't the twunt say if Brexit was a failure he was leaving the UK? He's said it's a failure, why is he still here?
Didn't he claim German residency to get an EU passport?
Probably not a reliable source, but evidence about his application is murky at best.
https://skwawkbox.org/2019/04/23/farage-applied-for-german-passport-on-day-after-2016-referendum-and-did-not-deny-having-one/0 -
This is something else.
It just gets worse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12256443/Can-meeting-15-years-finally-bring-closure-toxic-divorce.html0 -
So basically Coutts rescinded it because he's a "PEP" (some regulatory term for being a politically exposed person) so he's higher risk, and that combined with apparently lacking enough funds means he's not a very popular costumer.rick_chasey said:Almost 100% positive this Farage story is nothing to do with his politics and everything to do with the kind of sh!t that goes in and out of his bank account and he's trying to get ahead of the story.
Will soon find out.
Rather pathetic Andrew Neil and that lot are just taking his word at face value.0 -
The report says that Coutts told him he didn't have enough money to bank with them any more, but they offered him a Nat West account.rick_chasey said:
So basically Coutts rescinded it because he's a "PEP" (some regulatory term for being a politically exposed person) so he's higher risk, and that combined with apparently lacking enough funds means he's not a very popular costumer.rick_chasey said:Almost 100% positive this Farage story is nothing to do with his politics and everything to do with the kind of sh!t that goes in and out of his bank account and he's trying to get ahead of the story.
Will soon find out.
Rather pathetic Andrew Neil and that lot are just taking his word at face value.
I don't understand why being a politically exposed person would stop you getting a bank account though. That surely means all MPs and their families as well.0 -
It's a different risk and everyone has a different risk.
It's KYC stuff. Post that monster HSBC fine, UK banks are pretty conservative for this stuff. Same reason strippers can't get bank accounts etc.0 -
*Penny drops…politicians who strip are politically exposed. Eugh!rick_chasey said:It's a different risk and everyone has a different risk.
It's KYC stuff. Post that monster HSBC fine, UK banks are pretty conservative for this stuff. Same reason strippers can't get bank accounts etc.
*not necessarily referring to Ms Mordaunt.0 -
I'd be surprised if it was a KYC risk all of a sudden.
Private banks by their nature will deal with PEPs a lot of the time.
It would be hilarious if it was because it was too poor.0 -
Unless the risks have changed or they uncover something.shirley_basso said:I'd be surprised if it was a KYC risk all of a sudden.
Private banks by their nature will deal with PEPs a lot of the time.
It would be hilarious if it was because it was too poor.0 -
Coutts certainly didn't used to do this, they have loads of customers who were once rich, or who are just related to someone rich, who still have accounts. They paid quite high quarterly fees for the status of continuing to bank there but were not forced to leave.shirley_basso said:I'd be surprised if it was a KYC risk all of a sudden.
Private banks by their nature will deal with PEPs a lot of the time.
It would be hilarious if it was because it was too poor.
I guess if he couldn't afford the fee that might change things but that would be really surprisingly poor.
Or they've change their T&Cs.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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I would have thought they clear out customers who they suspect have received funds from a sanctioned source.rick_chasey said:
Unless the risks have changed or they uncover something.shirley_basso said:I'd be surprised if it was a KYC risk all of a sudden.
Private banks by their nature will deal with PEPs a lot of the time.
It would be hilarious if it was because it was too poor.
They will err on the side of caution as the US penalties are draconian0 -
I mean, to me that is the obvious scenario, and would explain why he's making it political, but ja, if I was a Coutt's customer i would be pretty p!ssed off they're discussing anything about their customers.1
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Oh it was a business account they closed. Don't know what the rules were for those.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Personal account, I think, but he also had a business account that he couldn't keep because he was no longer a personal customer, or something.pangolin said:Oh it was a business account they closed. Don't know what the rules were for those.
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kingstongraham said:
Personal account, I think, but he also had a business account that he couldn't keep because he was no longer a personal customer, or something.pangolin said:Oh it was a business account they closed. Don't know what the rules were for those.
"He says the offer of a NatWest account came late last week.
The former politician said the bank only did this when he "went public" with his story, and that it only offered him a personal account, not a business account.
"Well what use to me is that?" he told the BBC. "I operate through a business, that's how I live. Any income that comes to me personally comes through my business."
Sounds a bit odd. Yeah not abundantly clear.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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You're right he had both before.
Odd it's almost like he wants the media to pull on the PEP thread and look into Russian payments.- Genesis Croix de Fer
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A low value PEP is not going to be worth the effort for a bank, but that is a legitimate point of concern.
Our corporate account is regularly attacked by the KYC team. Incompetence and absolute power are not a good mix.0 -
Not so much intrigues me but constantly eludes me. The mid-day sun in the southern hemisphere is in the north. My sense of direction is wonky. 🤣The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Definitely not trivial but didn’t know where else to put this but HTF did that Land Rover manage to crash into the school? It would have had to have turned sharply off a narrow street with enough speed to go through the fence and kept going across 20m of grass.
Edit - just noticed there’s a side road more or less opposite so I guess it came from that direction.0 -
There's a couple of fairly straight roads coming from a golf club and a car park used by people walking dogs on the common that join just opposite there.Pross said:Definitely not trivial but didn’t know where else to put this but HTF did that Land Rover manage to crash into the school? It would have had to have turned sharply off a narrow street with enough speed to go through the fence and kept going across 20m of grass.
Edit - just noticed there’s a side road more or less opposite so I guess it came from that direction.0 -
I read it elsewhere and they're right; the car is designed in contempt of everyone else's safety bar the driver.0
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Ban SUV's in inner cities.
I thought the ULEZ zones pretty much squeeze them out?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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The models from 2016 onwards would be compliant.pinno said:Ban SUV's in inner cities.
I thought the ULEZ zones pretty much squeeze them out?
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Still don't understand why people want one in a city.kingstongraham said:
The models from 2016 onwards would be compliant.pinno said:Ban SUV's in inner cities.
I thought the ULEZ zones pretty much squeeze them out?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Very anti them, but the appeal ispinno said:
Still don't understand why people want one in a city.kingstongraham said:
The models from 2016 onwards would be compliant.pinno said:Ban SUV's in inner cities.
I thought the ULEZ zones pretty much squeeze them out?
1) high seat position makes you feel safer and less intimidated by other road users (obviously forgetting the physics of high centres of gravity)
2) Easier to lift things in an out of it; parents with bad backs often go for them as they don't need to bend over to strap their children in etc0 -
These huge ones that don't fit in parking spaces and also don't have loads of useable space in them but massive engines when you are supposed to do 20mph - nor can I. They should be classed differently.pinno said:
Still don't understand why people want one in a city.kingstongraham said:
The models from 2016 onwards would be compliant.pinno said:Ban SUV's in inner cities.
I thought the ULEZ zones pretty much squeeze them out?0 -
Isn't there an argument that between speed bumps, pot holes and pavement parking, it's not that smooth and easy driving in London?
For clarity, I'm happy for everyone to give up their cars.0 -
I manage it fine on a bicycle and you're supposed to slow down for speed bumps to take the sting out, that's the whole point.
People buy them mostly as status symbols.1
