Interesting,....

Reward for Failure ?
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"A taskforce to speed up home insulation and boiler upgrades has been disbanded, the BBC can reveal.

The group - which included the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt and other leading experts - was only launched in March.It was chaired by Alison Rose, who was chief executive of Nat West bank at the time (she was forced out of the bank in July after a row over Nigel Farage's bank account)." (BBC website)

So make a major fck-up at your employers expense, get a big pay-out because you resigned before they sacked you,...then land a job with HMG on a cushy little Task Force number. What the fck would she know about energy ?
Another example of elites (what a misnomer) looking after themselves.

I disengage, I turn the page.

Okay so if you hate Farage so seek to defend the banks try defending this.

My friend is a GP she has worked in the NHS most of her life and can now retire but she has decided to continue serving her community, I think we can all agree we need GPs to continue working.

She was born in Russia and holds British and Russian citizenship.

Recently her FI asked her to update her personal details online (nothing sinister about this). When she ticked the Nationality box British she also saw an additional field so added Russian, a big mistake.

Within 20 minutes her account was frozen and she received an email telling her to call a number.

She has now been told that she cannot do online banking and must phone the FI for approval before she does anything simple like sell some ISA shares.

I mean what the f***? She is an ordinary person doesn't have links to the regime doesn't even like Putin and is not on any government sanction list but this FI has arbitrarily decided to treat her as hostile.

She is upset and regrets ticking the Russian box which in hindsight she did not need to do.

So instead of this country thanking her for her service she is made to feel unwelcome.

I think I am more upset than she is.

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Because she has not lived in Russia for decades she has no automatic right of return. If she ever did want to live there she would have to apply for an internal passport with no guarantee that the Russian embassy would give her one.

These FI's are a bunch of C Units. I have said previously I was responsible for managing the sanctions list at Citi I do not understand why they feel it is necessary to punish an individual who is a British citizen and has been far more of an asset to this country than someone like me.

Rant over.

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hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

Computer says "no". Poor woman. She should write to Moneybox. Once broadcast, they practically always get an apology, a resolution, and sometimes a keep-quiet bung.

BTW, one can hate Farage AND the banks.

Some think he's positioning himself to come back to the Tories to lead it post election defeat.

I've no idea if it's true or not but wow....the political blood on the floor over that would be something to see.....literal war within the party.

Much more fun that real war.

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

I feel for you. The real question is how were they able to open accounts? Banks have to do Know Your Customer check so either they failed to do so in which case this is a serious error and should be reported to the regulators or the scammers had really good fake documents.

When people are scammed and transfer money to a fake bank account opened by fraudsters again I would question how they were able to open that account in the first place.

You should tell the credit ratings agencies as well these people are not going to stop at that. I expect they already have credit cards in your name.

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