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UK, Gina Miller voices fear for democracy over closure of her party’s bank account
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Wow. Bank policy is they don't do business with political parties. Kinda demolishes her entire argument? If institutions without such a policy refuse to do business, that's a different matter. Now, I only skimmed the article, but saw no mention of that type of difficulty.
She said she had to go round 9 banks before she was able to open this account in the first place. Her concern is that banks generally don't want to deal with minor/start-up political parties and so parties like hers become de facto un-banked.
These fringe rage artists always spin simple TOS as persecution. Wouldn’t surprise me if they deliberately picked this bank to have their account closed to manufacture outrage.