establishment close farages bank accounts

The answer to that depends on whether you truly understand (a) the reality of the legislation imposed upon the financial industry by the LABOUR government before its demise in 2010 and (b) the even more aggressive follow up legislation imposed with glee by the Conservatives under the influence of the far from liberal Nick Clegg.

If i needed to name it it all, it would require i sit down and watch YET AGAIN the vomit inducing crap video that the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority require, as a condition of my employment, that I sit and digest and take and pass an assessment to prove i have been indoctrinated as part of my job every six months. An optional slide in this video presentation goes into gruesome detail listing the applicable instruments in the UK mainland and each dependent territory (Guernesey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, The Bahamas, The Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands etc) for those "policing" those areas as the details differ across the world.  

But as you might imagine from my words above, I absolutely (wait , is this the mind zone ? DAMN WELL edit no it isn't FUCKING) hate that task.

Firstly because the video treats you like a four year old and secondly because it tries to pretend that by doing as the legislation asks you are an equal partner in the fight by James Bond against evil money laundering.

Now I admit that I am absolutely unique among the employees of the company i work for, but also one of a very, very small number in the industry worldwide who know - because we were ourselves conned by them - that those very people this video pretends are the good guys are in fact the very people who set up the quite illegal middle man company to which my first employer in the defence business despatched area denial munitions - including some whose delivery systems were in part developed by me - which were later included in the definition as weapons of mass destruction - so that company could illegally export with false paperwork claiming they were intended for deployment on Tornado Fighters of the Royal Saudi Air Force when in fact they were destined for Iraq and fused for deployment on Dassault Super Entendards supplied to Saddam Hussein by the unique and truly Amoral Mr Dassault.

The details of those illegal transactions and the identity of, and the identities of the people behind, the illegal middle man are all over the newspaper archives and the company is named and described in wikipedia and if you know the plot of the BBC adaptation of John Le Carre's The Night Watchman (which as i recall stared Tim Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie) then it is fair to say the scheme set up followed the same general approach as that used in that fiction.

The other thing i would say is that as a developer of all sorts of nasty ways to kill people including delivery of things nuclear, chemical and biological, and as a licenced animal experimenter from my first career, few things truly keep me awake at night and few things actually horrify me, but in 2004 I had the unenviable task of working at a Barclays Bank Information Technology site a little way between Warwick and Coventry, and there i had to meet and mingle on a daily basis with the people responsible for operating the financial industry's government directed asset seizure programme.

There was a delightful meme doing the rounds a few years ago showing Tony Blair with his demonic eyes taking a selfie of himself standing and grinning his arse off before a scene of hellfire and devastation taken in the oilfields saddam set fire to as his invasion of kuwait. I've gone mano a mano with Blair in the House of Commons Select Committee and won, and a more nasty piece of work you'd be hard pushed to meet, but he did not deserve being depicted like he was in that meme because THOSE SCUM IN THAT FINANCIAL SEIZURE PRORAMME DID. They are the nastiest bastards on earth who positively enjoy bringing starvation upon those whose assets they seize and whose lives they ruin. It is their efficiency, and their delight at doing their job, and the utter pleasure they openly display at bringing that misery down upon friends relatives and associates of the person whose perceived (and on more than one occasion utterly falsely accused) accusations of wrongdoing are being punished.

The antics of that bunch and more to the point the utter pleasure which they take in doing their job horrifies me.

As you can probably work out, some of my work has put men six foot under for doing no more than their army, navy and air force commanders told them, just some of the work my father did, and some of the work my two grandfathers did, but we did it because those we were working against were hoping to do it to us and they succeeded in their attempt against my cousin's former shipmates (he was transferred off the Atlantic Conveyor to take up a promotion on a different ship in the company) and while I am not going to apologise for providing my own country's armed forces with the means to do their job, I'm not going to sing and dance and rejoice about it

That they did truly horrified me. Steps are taken in the areas i have worked in to ensure such people do not get such jobs, Clearly the banking industry has no such scruples and neither has the banking regulation industry

But the problem here is Nigel is milking this as an action taken by the poisonous remainiacs against him for his stance and actions on brexit.

Whereas the reality is the action is being taken because the industry has been directed to take it as a result of the statements made under protection of parliamentary privilige by a nasty piece of work the elected member for Islwyn who i almost caused the death of in 2010 when he took evasive action to avoid shaking my hand and fell off the podium we were both on. To this day I regret not standing an inch closer to the edge of that platform.

But the fact remains the accusations are he was happily taking money from a sanctioned organisation. And until he kills off that allegation the banks are obliged to act against him.

Don't confuse the bank's requirement to follow instructions from government with the delight and hatred spewed by the likes of Diane Abbott and Peter Hain