Gina Miller is a famous anti Brexit campaigner. They gave her no reason for closing account but did explain why to the BBC when they asked.
“Hmm we need to show we’re not biased. Who do we choose” *one quick tombola later* “who? Oh her yeah sure”.
Many of Farages opponents supported him over this issue, I can’t stand Gina Miller’s opinions however I support her in this issue.
Seems really weird that they “suddenly” notice that the account was a political party. I mean did she tell them it was a greengrocers on the application? Its very likely she was upfront about it.
I think the bank has some explaining to do here. We also do not want to be in a situation where anyone getting into politics struggles to get banking services. Its simply too easy for such an already powerful part of society to wield more unregulated power.
Looking forward to the intervention of Sunak and Hunt to save the day.
I will copy the comment I put on a different UK sub over this.
Often, the removal of rights starts with those people do not care about or are even happy for it to happen to.
While in Millers case it seems like it might have been an error to even open an account for her, she should not have been given the account to start with, there are more and more stories coming out of people having accounts shut with no reason as to why. Given how important banking is to modern life surely people can see how this could be a problem?
It also throws up the issue of corporate censorship. Should a business be allowed to refuse your business because of your views, regardless of if they are left or right? If yes, where does it end? You get water, electric and internet cut off because you support a certain political party? Or if you are prominent campaigner for more banking regulations having all your accounts frozen and closed?
This is not a road we want to go down as a country. Allowing big corporate business to dictate what is and isn’t “right” will lead to much bigger problems imo.
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Gina Miller is a famous anti Brexit campaigner. They gave her no reason for closing account but did explain why to the BBC when they asked.
“Hmm we need to show we’re not biased. Who do we choose” *one quick tombola later* “who? Oh her yeah sure”.
Many of Farages opponents supported him over this issue, I can’t stand Gina Miller’s opinions however I support her in this issue.
Seems really weird that they “suddenly” notice that the account was a political party. I mean did she tell them it was a greengrocers on the application? Its very likely she was upfront about it.
I think the bank has some explaining to do here. We also do not want to be in a situation where anyone getting into politics struggles to get banking services. Its simply too easy for such an already powerful part of society to wield more unregulated power.
Looking forward to the intervention of Sunak and Hunt to save the day.
I will copy the comment I put on a different UK sub over this.
Often, the removal of rights starts with those people do not care about or are even happy for it to happen to.
While in Millers case it seems like it might have been an error to even open an account for her, she should not have been given the account to start with, there are more and more stories coming out of people having accounts shut with no reason as to why. Given how important banking is to modern life surely people can see how this could be a problem?
It also throws up the issue of corporate censorship. Should a business be allowed to refuse your business because of your views, regardless of if they are left or right? If yes, where does it end? You get water, electric and internet cut off because you support a certain political party? Or if you are prominent campaigner for more banking regulations having all your accounts frozen and closed?
This is not a road we want to go down as a country. Allowing big corporate business to dictate what is and isn’t “right” will lead to much bigger problems imo.