‘I’ll keep watching you …”
The Silly Season is coming to an inglorious end, with our ever so glorious Westminster MSM happily plastering their front pages – print, online: no difference – with stuff about Putin or Trump rather than asking questions such as what the government is doing to ensure our food and energy security. See for yourselves, e.g. this compilation: “Newspaper headlines: ‘Putin breaks silence’ and ‘bomb blew up jet’.“ (link), and the front pages of the DT and The Times – at the time of writing, this, that is.
So instead, after delving into the bowels of our Broadsheets, I found a report which demonstrates the utter hypocrisy of bank managers and indeed our society which has given rise to attitudes allowing some middle managers to decide on who is and isn’t ‘worthy’ of their service.
This is about the serial killer Rose West, about the ‘ethical’ Co-Op bank, and about their hypocrisy. In the wake of the Coutts scandal cancelling Nigel Farage’s accounts the cancellation ‘policies’ of banks have come under scrutiny. The DT reports that the Co-Op bank was ‘cleaning up’ their books, cancelling accounts of drug dealers and criminals in 2014, but decided to keep Ms West’s account (all emphases are mine):
“Bosses at the Co-op, which has the slogan “Ethical then, now and always”, deemed keeping West as a customer carried little risk to the bank’s reputation, it is understood, while drug dealers and gang members were stripped of their accounts.” (paywalled link)
A bit further down we read that these bosses thought it was more damaging to their reputation if the ‘general public’ were to find out they had Ms West on their books, that “it was decided that closing West’s account would cause problems for her daughter, who was the main user” (paywalled link). So far so good – but then yon bosses went ahead and did the following, “because: ‘ethics’!”:
“The bank’s boycott of the unnamed feminist group was revealed in its 2017 “Values and Ethics Report”. It said: ‘We declined banking services to…’ and then lists organisations it deemed to be unacceptable and which it had turned down. The feminist group was top of its list, ahead of organisations listed under “oppressive regimes” and the “fur trade”.” (paywalled link)
Oh, willya look at the virtue signalling! Still, it’s fair enough, you might say. After all a bank can decide whom they want as customers, especially when they need to signal their virtue. However, the reason why the Co-Op bosses refused their banking facilities for this feminist group is chilling: “The bank claimed the group had “actively declined the rights of members of the transgender community”. (paywalled link). I was horrified when reading next:
“At the time Co-Op Bank said: “We gave the organisation an opportunity to provide clarification on their position relating to diversity and equality and how they comply with the UK Equality Act.” (paywalled link)
The hypocrisy which allows a mass murderer to keep an account because it would be worse for the bank’s reputation if ‘the public knew’ about it while demanding a group to explain why they are not bending their knees to the ‘transgender community’ is simply stunning. This hypocrisy is promoted by an incessant virtue signalling which this bank displays by publishing a “Values and Ethics Report”.
Furthermore, I am astonished that these bank bosses, just like the NatWest ones, seem to think that they will be judged by what accounts they hold. Have they never heard of confidentiality? Why should the ‘general public’ of which they are so scared, even know whose accounts they hold? Hands up all who read such ‘Values and ethics reports’!
The final piece of hypocrisy is this: on the one hand ‘vested interests’, i.e. pressure groups mostly tending to the Left, have preached to us for decades that it is wrong to judge. On the other hand they judge us to their hearts’ content, even unto interfering with the lives of people whose accounts are cancelled because they are ‘not worthy’.
This means that judging mass killers is bad but judging those who reject the transgender ideology is ‘virtuous’. Furthermore, those who prepare such ‘virtue dossiers’ and those who decide, blindly, on the basis of those dossiers, are as faceless as the public service bureaucrats or the NHS Trust managers, able to ruin lives without being held to account.
That’s all I have for today. The Silly Season might come to an end but I suspect the ‘news’ we’ll be presented with will be as fluffy and gossipy as they are now, with pertinent questions remaining unasked and not investigated. Have a good day.
Robber barons for me. The Equality Act will bulldoze all of us and everyone into compliance. And those moral busybodies, once empowered, will never stop. Blair again. Scrap New Labour and all its Acts of Progress.
https://t.me/c/1403265972/52758
A little off topic but these people need to be remembered for the criminals they are. Follow the money. Hope the link works.
Apologies this link won’t work from Telegram but will try another way if possible.
An expose of Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ scheme and other like around the world. The manipulated data and outright corruption is unbelievable. You need to watch this, it’s shocking. Great close up footage of the Blade Runners, those heroes cutting down ULEZ cameras included.
“You Won’t Believe What’s Going On In LONDON Right Now!”
Neil McCoy-Ward
Globalism, the new colonialism,
Flyer Good to see the public getting out of their prams about this, but why oh why were they so supine about the covid abominations. They seem to be completely blind about some things but not others.
The whole agenda chills me to the bone.
I sometimes struggle to imaginatively comprehend the mindset of the generations below me such as people now working in banks, once the most conservative of institutions. Goodwin’s “new elites” often appear to be snobs in the John Mortimer sense of people who “‘assume that the world is full of sillier, weaker, more suggestible people than themselves. They yearn for a hierarchy, the cultured and informed who know best, and the dim, silent majority” their self-serving assumption require constant reinforcement in the Eliot sense
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
—T. S. Eliot, “The Cocktail Party” (1949)
Culture matters for it determines the criteria by which we think well of ourselves. Roger Scruton knew this but hardly any conservative politicians do or the few that do are too cowardly to engage in the culture wars. Unchecked left wing dominated education is leading us to an authoritarian future for
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology
and the lesson of history, only partially learnt and now forgotten, is in Mao Zedong’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ the mission of which was to destroy the ‘Four Olds’ – old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture.
The madness goes way beyond the increasingly visible version in banks. The FSU today reported on the Navy’s new ‘Divisional Officers and Troop Commanders Briefing Notes’:
“Amid escalating Chinese belligerence in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, the threat to international shipping posed by piracy in the Indian Ocean, near daily incursions into British maritime waters by Russian submarines, and a sharp rise in the number of gangs involved in people smuggling across the English Channel, the British Navy’s top brass has decided to really let rip, flex its muscles, and remind the country’s enemies exactly who it is that rules the waves… by issuing new guidance to officers on preferred pronoun usage, the integration of critical race theory into leadership, and how the pathology of ‘white privilege’ can be overcome.”
Chinese Admirals are probably wondering if the notes are a spoof. If only it was.
Hard to tell when the ‘silly season’ starts and finishes these days, maybe it’s because many of the writers and reporters WFH and spend their time researching on social media. Odd how the ‘media’ which disparaged the ‘ CarlsonTrump’ interview has been very silent about it’s 200 million views in 12 hours presumably by what Hilary Clinton calls the deplorables, and something they will never ever match. If the media can’t see the writing on the wall both in the U.S and the UK they are going to get a very nasty surprise as their woke and bias seems now to have been noticed by the usually apathetic population of the U.K. Silly season indeed.
Norman- Agreed – the pressitutes are a 12 mth / yr silly season – front page showing World Cup wheelchair swimmers achievements coming to a newspaper near you – read all about it.
The 200 thou Carlson – Trump watchers would probably be a great deal bigger if it were avail on youtube or something other than twitter / facebook / spyware or whatever. Don’t have / want either, but cannot remember which is the only source.
It’s the same sort of thing trying to get hold of the film R-i-g-g-e-d. Zukerberg’s 400 million dollar funding of Byedung at the last election to aid the removal of Pres Trump. There is another film of the same name but nothing about Suckerberg in it.
Viv the COOP has always been run by virtue signalling hypocrites..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508464/Crystal-meth-shame-Co-op-bank-chief-Paul-Flowers.html