Forage Banking Arrangements

[carpetmonster]

14 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Farage could hardly lead it, he's never off the airwaves and printed press. Maybe Jeremy Corbyn could give it ago, he gets cancelled every time he opens his mouth.

Isn’t he involved with that lot Laurence Fox keeps losing deposits for? 

[Johnny Martin]

28 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:

Isn’t he involved with that lot Laurence Fox keeps losing deposits for? 

Fox is Reclaim whereas Farage is Reform.

Easily confused as their policies are the same and both two syllable words beginning with R.

[Johnny Martin]

45 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Farage could hardly lead it, he's never off the airwaves and printed press. Maybe Jeremy Corbyn could give it ago, he gets cancelled every time he opens his mouth.

One thing I'll say about Corbyn.. he has always supported free speech.

There's no reason why a free speech party would have to be right wing.  It'd garner support right across the spectrum, especially from old school lefties who solidified their ideas back in the day when the left actually cared about free speech.

[StellarHibee]

1 hour ago, Johnny Martin said:

One thing I'll say about Corbyn.. he has always supported free speech.

There's no reason why a free speech party would have to be right wing.  It'd garner support right across the spectrum, especially from old school lefties who solidified their ideas back in the day when the left actually cared about free speech.

But it would be right wing and it would be their own version of "free speech". Let's not kid on that they care about giving everybody a voice. They're quite content with people like Corbyn being silenced by their connections in the media.

[Guest]

My view is that in any society, adherents of the incumbent or hegemonic political ideology are going to be the ones doing the censoring. Simply because they have the power to do so.  In UK, that means neoliberals. Quick reminder of what neoliberalism is: economic dimension is state intervention in the market to transfer wealth upwards, social dimension is an extreme emphasis on individualism. Generally, political activists who significantly depart from this are who get targeted for censorship. The best example is probably Julian Assange, currently in prison in London. His speech interfered with the most important cog in the neoliberal project: the ability of the global north, led by USA, to secure the economic exploitation of the global south via military might. 

Farage is your consummate neoliberal on economics but his fashy leanings clash with the social side of the deal. He's not that into individualism. He's not a fan of ethnic pluralism, for example. Neoliberal capitalists don't want racism, they want to be able to sell Nike trainers to Black people or to fill labour shortages in their companies with migrant workers. So I think that's how you can get right-on-right clashes like between Coutts and Farage. 

When it comes to UK censorship, we have seen some solidarity between folk the establishment considers either too left wing on their economic views or too conservative on their social views. That might be more to do with strategy than shared underlying convictions, though.

[10menwent2mow]

Financial Conduct Authority finds that no politician has been denied access to an account. Perhaps the FCA are saying that Farage isn't actually a politician. 

[BFTD]

12 hours ago, 10menwent2mow said:

Financial Conduct Authority finds that no politician has been denied access to an account. Perhaps the FCA are saying that Farage isn't actually a politician. 

Good to see that's getting as much press as the original accusations 

Of course, he wasn't denied an account, he just didn't like having an ordinary person account at a pleb branch. The important thing is that dafties will still be convinced that poor Nigel was cancelled by the nasty establishment for speaking the TRUTH!!!