I mean, he definitely deserves some investigation based on available information and well documented behaviour/actions.

As for what’s trumped up and what’s not - I’m sure there’s extras thrown in for fun, one would be naive to think otherwise, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be heading to trial for some of the things he did.

Taking a position that he’s completely innocent and any charges brought are baseless, well that sounds very parrot I mean partisan to me.

Maybe he banks at Coutts

Edited by SW19 CPFC (06 Aug 2023 11.41pm)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Posting a second time as worth saying twice

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

It's political and unprecedented.

If you look at any president's actions you could bring them up on charges if you chose to......Indeed, if Trump wins you're going to see a lot of charges and heads rolling in power bases and they know it.

The fact that these cases have been designed to be ongoing while he'd be campaigning is one hell of a stretch to regard as a coincidence.

It's naked and as I've said, makes America look like a banana republic with air conditioning.

Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Aug 2023 7.04am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I'm certain that the charges against Trump are purely for political purposes, whether he is actually guilty of them or not.
I'm also certain that any of us could be charged with something if someone tried hard enough to dig something up.

Donald Trump is a super wealthy businessman and former President. I'd be amazed if you couldn't charge any man like him with a number of things. I'd like to have a look in the closets of the people instigating all this.

I really don’t see why. I wasn’t talking about holding any opinion, whether controversial or even plain daft. I was talking about understanding a nuanced and quite subtle difference between two words and the motivations that each implies.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I didn’t suggest it is expensive. I suggested that the costs involved for a highly exposed PEP could be a factor in a bank’s reasoning. Who knows, other than the bank itself, what in 2023, they regard as relevant.

Nobody here knows what the elements were that resulted in Coutts deciding to review Farage’s account status, whether this was treated in the standard way or whether his high public profile meant he was given a different level of attention. I respect the fact that you, and others, have more experience of banking practice than myself and find the descriptions interesting and informative. These alone though cannot tell the whole story, which none of us actually know. What we do know, and have agreed on, is that whatever happened, whether stupid, irritating or appearing to be unfair, it was the bank’s decision to make it.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.