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Thats as rules ensuring a minimum level of cover in hospitals could be extended to doctors and nurses. Consultants in england are striking for 48 hours today over pay. Junior hours today over pay. Junior doctors will join them tomorrow and theyll all be picketing until friday. The governments facing criticism for its decision to give Avanti West Coast a new long term contract. Coast a new long term contract. The department for transport has announced the train operator will continue to run services on the west coast main line for at least three years as that line runs from london to glasgow through birmingham, liverpool, manchester and edinburgh. And its despite the company having the second worst Performance Records in the country. And as records in the country. And as youve been hearing , the youve been hearing, the Financial Conduct Authority has concluded that theres no evidence that banks close the accounts of customers because of their political views. It their political views. It follows the closure of Nigel Farages account by coots, the gb news presenter revealed that internal memos at the bank deemed his views in consistent with its position as an inclusive organisation. The inclusive organisation. The telegraph says mr farage account wasnt included in the fcas report , with gb news across the report, with gb news across the uk on tv. In your car, on Digital Radio and now on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news this is britains news. Channel well, it was the Financial Times. It was. Thats the very same paper that broke the story that coots had closed my account because of insufficient funds. Well, they were wrong about that , but the times got the leak of the Financial Conduct Authoritys and they put authoritys report and they put it today on their front page. Fca report finds no evidence of banks closing accounts for political leanings. Well, political leanings. Well, frankly, i didnt know really whether to laugh or to cry. And all of this ahead of the release at midday today of this full fca report, uk payment accounts, access and closures. Now, you would have thought, wouldnt you, that all they had to do was to read that vile 40 page document that coots prepared on me to realise my account had been closed because i did not augn been closed because i did not align with the value of the bank. Yet we learn later on that apparently only my case wasnt included, but aside from that, they discovered that nobody. No, absolutely nobody had had their accounts closed as a result of their views. Well, i could give you a list as long as your arm of people whove been debunked because of their political views and associations. Lets begin, of course, with the founder and organiser of leave dot eu arron banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks had his business accounts closed and wigmore has had both his personal and business accounts closed. What about richard tice , now leader of richard tice, now leader of reform uk. 7 richard, richard tice, now leader of reform uk . Richard, who was an mep with the brexit party , has mep with the brexit party, has found himself rejected for loans because of pure political reasons , and that for his reasons, and that for his business, extraordinar chile. Kevin saunders , former boss of kevin saunders, former boss of border force over in calais. Hes had his account closed. He thinks because he appears regularly on gb news grant shapps cabinet minister had his and other family accounts closed. Toby and other family accounts closed. Toby young of the Free Speech Union de banking taken out of the payments system. Paypal and of course, the Reverend Richard fothergill, who objected to the lgbtq propaganda. He was getting from his building society. He only to have his society. He only to have his account closed. What we see today from the fca is a total whitewash. It is a complete and utter farce. But then i guess by asking people who are biased to examine whether there is bias is probably not going to get you much of a result. But whats annoying is this the fca is the most important regulator in this country. Why well, because Financial Services are not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest earner of invisible income from abroad. It is britains biggest industry. And it used to be the jewel in the crown. And many of us believe with brexit, this was the chance for our Financial Sector to really get back to where it ought to be as the leading Global Financial centre. But the fish can rot from the head down and frankly , my view is that the and frankly, my view is that the fca has now become utterly politicised, filled up with people who frankly have no experience of Financial Markets whatsoever. Oh, but theyre very good. Very good indeed at pushing the diversity and inclusion agenda onto our banks , onto our Insurance Companies and onto the whole industry. And onto the whole industry. Now, the response to all of this from Andrew Griffiths, the city minister today simply wasnt good enough. He reiterated that nobody should have their accounts closed for holding a perfectly legal view. Well, yes, but the treasury, the government has real power here and i think we need a complete clean out of these political appointees that are there within the fca. So are there within the fca. So lets start again with people that actually understand finance markets and that come into something and promise an absolute political neutrality. Im asking you , should we sack im asking you, should we sack the regulator or give me your views, make sure theyre clean, please go to farage at gbnews. Com. Well, joining me gb news. Com. Well, joining me down gbnews. Com. Well, joining me down the line is david davis, conservative member of parliament for house and price and howden in yorkshire. David, and howden in yorkshire. David, i was talking about the political ization of the fca and we could go on, i guess , and we could go on, i guess, and talk about the Civil Service just want to show you a couple of pictures of the people that now run the fca. Lets start with the ceo, nikhil rathee, and here he is. He is the ceo of the Financial Conduct Authority. And Financial Conduct Authority. And he and the executive director , he and the executive director, sheldon mills. These are the sheldon mills. These are the two. These are the two most prominent people that run the Financial Conduct Authority. Now ive checked a bit, david, into their backgrounds , but i think their backgrounds, but i think youve done a little bit more work on this than i have. And work on this than i have. And have we politicise used the Financial Market regulator. To well, ill start by saying, nigel, im feeling a bit left out. I was the only person in your list. Im quite jealous your list. Im quite jealous now. The the, the simple truth is , is that either the, the is, is that either the, the agency is too big or incompetent, careless or its doing something to thwart its friends and the establishment. If you talk about politicisation being here is a basically an exercise of the establishment protecting its own. I mean, mr rathee, nikhil rathi , i think if rathee, nikhil rathi, i think if i remember correctly, was private secretary to, uh, gordon brown. He then went on to, to do brown. He then went on to, to do some otherjobs brown. He then went on to, to do some other jobs inside the brown. He then went on to, to do some otherjobs inside the civil some other jobs inside the Civil Service. He then got a job in the london stock exchange. He the london stock exchange. He then came back into system these jobs rotate amongst people who are the london establishment. Are the london establishment. And what youre seeing is the outcome of that. What youre seeing is, oh, well, you know, these are our people. We cant we cant be too critical of them. I mean, it is inconceivable that any professional organisation , one professional organisation, one could look at the facts, the facts with respect to you, where arron banks, all these other people and say, well, theres nothing wrong here, you know, and they very, very carefully designed their terms. They said, designed their terms. They said, well, were only going to look from june 21 to 22, which sort of cuts you out. You know, were only going to look at people who are specifically be removed for their political views as stated by the banks themselves. Well, by the banks themselves. Well, whos going to do that . Its like asking a burglar. Exactly. Exactly. They say to the banks, they say to the banks, have you de banking anybody for political reasons . Banks say no. And reasons . The banks say no. And they say thats okay. Yeah. I mean, its barking mad, frankly. And these are you know, these are not people off the street. I mean, mr rathees paid over half a million a year. You know, his notional salary. I think is about 455. But you had to add the package up. Its over half a million. You know, hes you know, he ought to be able you know, he ought to be able you know, he ought to be able you know, frankly, my country solicitor ought to be able to answer this question. And hes not paid half a million a year. So, you know, these people ought to be on top of their job to be on top of theirjob and theyre and the fact that theyre not. And the fact that theyre not. And the fact that they have failed in this way and frankly are effectively frankly today are effectively admitting they failed. I mean, theyve oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this and h, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this and h, didnt we didnt do this and we didnt do that. And weve got to come back sorry to late. If back to it. Sorry to late. If you and jury, you are the judge and jury, something this , when you Something Like this, when you come out with a conclusion , it come out with a conclusion, it should stand up. It should not be. Well, this is just our view along the way. Is time, david, to so is it time, david, to replace these people with new personnel and to get a regulator that the industry, the country and the world can respect . Well, yes, it is, because several reasons. I mean , this is several reasons. I mean, this is the latest of a series of failures by the fca and fca and its predecessor were used else in the 2008 crisis. They got the whole story wrong in the libor scandal. They basically convicted all the wrong people. And yet again, let off the bosses. I and yet again, let off the bosses. I mean, it was if you look at that scandal, it was the juniors who got sacked. Nobody who was senior knew about it, let alone went to prison. So all of all of the behaviour of the fca and by the way , theyve got fca and by the way, theyve got some quite expert people working for them, but in the lower ranks , with all the behaviour of the fca is that of an organisation who sees its function as propping up the financial establishment. And thats the opposite reason for what its there. So im afraid im a i think i think mr rac has simply his prospects, put it mildly , his prospects, put it mildly, are dim. David davis spoken as ever. Thank you. And i could have thank you. And i could have mentioned but sheldon mills, the executive director, of course, for many years, for many years, worked for stonewall and leads the diversity and inclusion agenda. The diversity and inclusion agenda. Now the diversity and inclusion agenda. Now im now the diversity and inclusion agenda. Now im now joined by agenda. Now im now joined by Royston Smith, member of parliament for southampton , parliament for southampton, itchen royston, just briefly remind us of whats happened to you, mark march april last year i was told that they didnt want to keep tsb, didnt want to keep me in their bank anymore, threw me in their bank anymore, threw me out. Went on for months and months and months. Couldnt get any responses from ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseorfrom ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the zeo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the chairman| and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the chairman of bulloch or even the chairman of the board. Kept my money for the board. Kept my money for months and months months. Months and months and months. You were frozen, werent you . You were frozen, werent you . Frozen. And then i was frozen. And then finally theyve since finally they theyve now since i spoke last time, theyve spoke to you last time, theyve they cheque thats they sent me a cheque and thats all but i put in a all done now. But i put in a request that as did and most request that as you did and most of subject access, subject access anybody can do. Yep, yep. Yep, yep. Yep, yep. And theyve sent me. Its not its not, its not comprehensive. Theres things missing in it which im going to go to them and have and go back to them and have and said, you know, you can the said, you know, you can find the rest that havent sent rest of it that you havent sent already, that bundle already, but half of that bundle is media to where they have been following me in the media to see what ive been saying. Theyve got a bundle , which is mostly got a bundle, which is mostly the controversial stuff as opposed to the things i would say about how wonderful it is. Someones a levels of been good this year and things like i sold my house they put down that id sold it how much id sold it for, how much the profit was. Now that went into my personal account with lloyds had nothing to do tsb, theyve to do with tsb, so theyve been following financial personal following my financial personal finances. Been following finances. Theyve been following me in the media. They refuse to say why they threw me out of their bank. But why do they have a bundle me like that . If a big bundle on me like that . If it for political reasons . It wasnt for political reasons . And well, absolutely. And weve been on to tsb to say youd be back the programme and we got back on the programme and we got this statement. Tsb accounts are reviewed periodical basis reviewed on a periodical basis to ensure that we comply with our regulator we our regulator obligations. We do not comment on individual customer there. You are. Customer cases there. You are. Well, of course i can comment on the individual case because if they were just reviewing my account, my very modest earnings would all been in the register of members interests. Its the easiest thing they could possibly but if theyve possibly follow. But if theyve got oligarch drug runner got an oligarch or a drug runner with a £10 million house in london with no of knowing london with no way of knowing where from , how where that money comes from, how many they thrown many of those have they thrown out . How do out . Well, quite royston, how do you respond when you see the front page of the Financial Times today saying that no one has been debunked for political reasons . Give us your response. Give us your response. Well, its just farcical, isnt its as you said, what isnt it . Its as you said, what do phoned the bank up do they do . Phoned the bank up and anyone and say, have you kicked anyone out . Thanks very out . No, i havent. Thanks very much. On. Mean, much. Well move on. I mean, theyre supposed to be theyre supposed to looking supposed to be looking after us. Theyre supposed to be the regulator. Now, i know im an mp, enough and ugly mp, and im big enough and ugly enough myself. Enough to look after myself. However if they it to me, however if they do it to me, they it anyone else. They will do it to anyone else. And sure now, and im absolutely sure now, knowing that they had a file on you and theyve got a file on me, file on me, theyll have file on hundreds you know, hundreds of people. You know, most mps, most of the most of the mps, most of the outspoken i dont outspoken commentators. I dont know people like matthew le tissier, player tissier, former Football Player laurence like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all got like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all got files that. I bet theyve all got files on them. Yeah. Initially know when i now, initially know when i broke story of had broke the story of what had happened people like happened to me and people like you came out as it were, as well, you know, i got a great response ri