If bankers and other corporate staff want to get political, they should stand for Parliament

Every person reading this should stand up for free speech in our country

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It’s time to stop the rot – business is business and politics should have nothing to do with it

All of our readers will be aware of the high profile news story about Nigel Farage having his bank accounts closed – accounts he has held for decades. To the best of our knowledge he has not broken the law. He even just won the accolade of ‘News Broadcaster of the Year’ from TRIC. Despite this, his bank has closed his accounts and no other bank will touch him, effectively making him a ‘non-person’.

Readers will also be aware that this has happened to thousands of people, most of them too scared to speak out after managing to get another account and not wanting to tempt fate with their new provider.

Enough!

We’re sure that we are not the only ones who find TV adverts today racist and the quality lamentable. Years ago the British advertising industry was widely considered to be the best in the world. No longer. We are now treated to what amounts to political advertising and Ofcom is doing nothing about this.

It’s time for all good people in the United Kingdom to stand up and tell the people working in our corporates to forget politics and just give us the services we are paying for. If they hold political opinions this is of course normal, but these should not intrude on their work. If they feel passionately about one cause or another, they should resign and stand for Parliament.

The curse of ‘ESG’

Readers may have come across the term ‘ESG’ and not been aware of what it means. ‘ESG’ stands for ‘environmental, social, and corporate governance’. This is a disease which has permeated to the highest levels in the UK’s boardrooms.

This was first started by the United Nations 20 years ago and is now rife across our corporate world. Aside from anything else, all companies need to show they are ‘on the page’ or they will struggle to get any investment, nor to sell their shares to pension funds.

This is Big Brother at its worst

Corporates are now expected to have policies on climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, pollution mitigation, energy efficiency and water management. On the ‘social’ side they must declare their positions on employee safety and health, working conditions, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and conflicts and humanitarian crises.

Regarding ‘Governance’ they should have statements on bribery, corruption, diversity, executive compensation, cyber security and privacy.

Whatever happened to innovation and the pursuit of profit?

We expect British companies to provide a normal, safe working environment for their staff and to employ and promote according to merit. We expect them to comply with the law in all their dealings. Apart from that we expect them to do the best job they can and to provide the best goods and services possible at the lowest prices. That’s all.

Back to Nigel

We and CIBUK interviewed Nigel Farage in London yesterday, after the day’s cricket at Lords had ended.

He was on sparkling form considering what he’s been going through. We managed to get the interview with him as part of our ‘Independence Documentary’’ just before he takes time off to review his future. His contribution is an absolute cracker that you do NOT want to miss.

TV star Alex Philips did an amazing job interviewing all the celebrities. We are now faced with a few weeks of editing, which of course costs money because it involves professionals.

We were successful in raising the funds for all the filming (Nigel, Sir Jacob, Sir John Redwood, David Jones, Ann Widdecombe and many others from across the political spectrum) but we still need help raising a few thousand pounds for the editing process. Please help today if you can: click here to read more

This TV-style documentary covers a broad range of topics of interest to the general public, encompassing the following – and more :-

Brexit benefits
Sovereignty, independence and democracy
Immigration – legal and illegal
Health services, schools, housing, etc
Economy and trade
Northern Ireland
Retained EU laws
Defence
Freedom of expression / media bias
Net Zero & environmental fundamentalism
Agriculture and fisheries
Continental Eurosceptics giving their perspectives

Photo right: Our TV presenter, Alex Philips

Observations

The malaise in corporate culture all started at the UN. Since then it has proliferated. Goodness knows how many people are now employed in this nonsense.

We take the traditional view. Business is business and politics is politics. Those of the Brexit Facts4EU team who are in business prefer not to burden their customers with the additional costs of employing personnel to deal with policy statements and conformity on climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, pollution mitigation, energy efficiency, water management, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and conflicts and humanitarian crises.

What a load of tosh. Let’s get on with business and making Brexit Britain an outstanding place to be based in.

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Reader Comments 12

1. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 11:00:

Don’t get me wrong: anyone should be allowed to have a high-street bank account. But Nigel wants a bank account at Coutts … that is not a normal high-street bank.

2. Gazzablack , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 13:16:

2, luxuryballoon
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Is that relevant?
It wasn't a case of Nigel wants a bank account with Coutts, Nigel HAD a bank account with Coutts.
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3. Andy , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 13:22:

Courts is the private banking division of NatWest - they were bankers to the late Queen.
We are now in the ludicrous position where the vilest of vile Murderers can have a bank account, but not one of the the most successful politicians of the last 30 years.

4. terence patrick hewett , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 16:10:

UK institutions are rotten to the core: only a complete systemic reformation and clearout will fix it. Boot these parasites into the non-financial private sector: they will soon learn that this sort of behaviour will render them unemployable.

5. LuxuryBalloon , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 17:00:

2 Gazza. It is not irrelevant. For a high-street bank you might need a deposit of £50 to open and maintain a bank account, while for Coutts you need a deposit of £3mln.

6. Sparky , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 17:06:

Farage has got himself headlines by making out he is a persecuted victim when he is nothing of the sort.
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No one had heard of the TRIC awards until Farage was booed for making political statements after he won the award. He only won because GB News ran a campaign to vote for him.
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He recently admitted Brexit has failed. He perviously said he would leave the UK if Brexit failed but he's still here.

7. Llwyd , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 18:08:

6 Sparky. Brexit hasn’t failed. Many good things have come from it which have been published on here time and time again by Facts4EU and users in the comments section. You simply choose not to hear them. And once again as you’ve been reminded, Farage said Brexit has not been fully taken advantage of by the conservatives not that Brexit itself is a failure. Brexit meant leaving the EU, we did so and that’s it.

8. Sparky , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 18:50:

Just watched a GB News interview, Nigel with Sir Michael Grayson. Discussing why Ben Wallace didn’t get support of USA key role in NATO, NF being told that since leaving EU, UK influence has declined. Not the answer Nigel was looking for.
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7 L. I assume you missed QT special on Brexit when Ben Habib was schooled on lack of growth and issues due to Brexit

9. Major Graham Lear , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 19:23:

Sparky, You must have watched a different QT, as I recall Habib was the only one doing the schooling all through the program.
But, hey tell a lie often and the lie suddenly becomes the truth, and from what I have seen you and your kind are quite good at that.

10. Gazzablack , Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 21:20:

5, luxuryballoon
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The most important aspect of the whole thing is that CouttsandCo and NatwestGroup have revealed confidential client data to a journalist in a clear and deliberate breach of their regulatory obligations.
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8, Sparkless
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247 years ago the USA declared independence to rid themselves of a senile, mad old ruler.I
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Now they have Joe Biden, a senile, mad old ruler
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By the way.
On 1st July the UK assumed the presidency of the U.N. Security Council

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