This is the opposite of the argument Tories made a century ago against paying MPs. They wanted people like them who were independently wealthy to be MPs, not layabouts like these Union types in the Labour party.
The Tories have laid a timebomb for the next Labour govt in this regard - they keep freezing ministerial pay.
Mr Farage told the BBC: “Are you telling me that all the other banks say it was a PEP thing and Coutts wasn’t - draw your own conclusions.”
Hmm… One bank has an existing customer who they decide to ditch since he is now:
a) a poor;
b) a political nonentity;
c) linked to a bunch of dodgy Russians and causing us a headache re sanctions and money laundering issues; and
d) did we mention he’s poor?
Other banks have a prospective new customer they have to vet - now in a climate where links to rich Russians is a tick in the “Don’t touch with a bargepole” column rather than the “Accept this customer immediately and offer them any loan at any terms in the hope that they’ll wangle you an invite to Arkady’s yacht” column.
I’m sure he can get an account at the post office.
Offshore or scammed by another scammer?
Now that the video is out there, the police have finally been persuaded to investigate.
Will no one help a widows son?
He is still an idiot, but no longer useful?
The NHS is still better than the HSE in ireland. I’d point the finger at child poverty (children in the UK are getting smaller relative to their continental peers in the last decade) and the programme of austerity which significantly impacted quality of life for many people and saw the projected age of death actually decline at one point.
This is disgusting.
Surely the alcohol culture must have something to do with it as well. I just came back from a week of conferences in the UK, and I notice every time I’m there how the amount of alcohol involved in socialising is just so much higher than in most other European countries. At all levels of society.
This is the same tory bastard who had a go at Lineker a few months ago, after the “fascist-rhetoric” furore.
He’s a nasty piece of work. Backpfeifengesicht.
For crying out loud, they’re kids!
Leave 'em be.
Something of a mixed blessing, then.
Considering that even the mildest criticism of Starmer (Labour: The Real Conservatives!) will get you labelled as a Corbynite, I will wait for confirmation on that being true.
Total fucking vandals.
Grim. It’s just a floating prison.
