So it was no surprise to see Banksy wanting to celebrate the return of The Donald to the Presidency, at a rooftop venue in Washington, DC. But here, as Caroline Wheeler of the Murdoch Sunday Times has told, a problem entered, as in, Banksy didn’t. Here’s what she had to say about it.
“Arron Banks, the multimillionaire businessman who helped fund the Brexit campaign, is unable to attend his own £150,000 party celebrating Donald Trump’s return to the White House after he was denied entry to the United States … [he] was due to host 300 guests at the lavish ‘Stars and Stripes and Union Jack Party’ on the rooftop of the historic Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington this Friday night”. Except, now, he wasn’t. Do go on.
“Invitees include the president-elect and members of his family, Elon Musk, the US senators Rick Scott and Pete Ricketts, and the former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. The guest of honour is Farage … But Banks set to miss the occasion after his electronic entry permit to the US … was blocked. His business partner, Andy Wigmore has also had his entry to the US denied. The pair claim it is a ‘political decision’ and criticised the Biden administration”.
What was that about sovereign nations controlling their borders? How did Nige and his pals put it … “taking back control”? How will Isabel Oakeshott spin that one? And when will the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog mention it (no word as yet)?
The Mirror also had more on Banksy’s response. “Mr Banks blasted the decision to deny him US entry, branding it ‘a political decision and revenge for the failed Russia Hoax’. In a long statement, he ranted about President Joe Biden being to blame and hit out at the ‘dying fake media’”. Rather than the more prosaic explanation, which is that he was just refused entry to the USA.
Nige was, of course, all sympathy. “He was also backed by Reform UK leader Mr Farage, who posted online: ‘Arron Banks is a good man and a friend of America. It is astonishing that US Citizenship and Immigration Services have denied him entry for the inauguration.’” And Banksy wasn’t finished.
“I was accused of Russian collusion in the Brexit campaign, investigated and cleared by the National Crime Agency … I would estimate it cost me over £100million in lost business and legal fees. My businesses were de-banked and attacked by vicious opponents during this period. All for supporting Brexit and President Trump”. All of which has stuff all to do with his entry denial.
As a spokesman for the US embassy in the UK put it, “Visa records are confidential under US law, therefore we cannot discuss the details of specific visa cases”. Of course not: they can leave the discussion aspect to Banksy, Wiggy, and Mr Thirsty to pontificate that it’s all so terribly unfair.
While many others look on, try unsuccessfully to suppress the urge to laugh out loud, and conclude “Oh dear, how sad, never mind”.
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If those two are Hunsecker and Falco.... Farage is a Gnome Counties Foghorn Leghorn.
ReplyDeleteHitchens is one of the Rothermere Heil resident Hunseckers and geriatric propagandists - actually just an ageing crackpot contrarian on pay steroids to keep him going.
ReplyDeleteHe recently claimed - and I'm not joking - the Starmer Quisling is to the left of Jeremy Corbyn. Merely demonstrating the insanity of notorious Hitler-supporting British propaganda rags.
Could they not have claimed sanctuary in the US though, Tim?
ReplyDeleteI mean, as refugees fleeing a land squirming under the iron heelof Outright Fascism?*
*(TM)
Wouldn't that be rather akin to leaping from frying pan to fire?I I mean Trump, Musk and Bannon easily have more 'fascist of the year' points than Starmer.
DeleteFrom you maybe, but not from our sane and rational friend on whose sage authority we have it that only the UK is living under, and has been since late summer 2024, something called Outright Fascism.
Delete'And this is not just any Outright Fascism
This is R & S* Outright Fascism........'
*Reeves and Starmer
Wonderful watching them all squabbling.
ReplyDeleteIt's like Rôhm V Hitler all over again, with Quisling in the wings waiting to see who he cringes to next. It doesn't matter which.
Next up, another British serving general committing fascist sedition if he disapproves of the Downing Street tenant. Even if it's a Quisling and Zionist-without-qualification.
Bring it on I say, bring it on.
Not sure the head of the SA would have wanted his name soiled by a Froschfresser circumflex, Anonymous.
DeleteTsk tsk, as I've heard it said.
It gets better. Now Bannon(!) has attacked Musk as "... racist and evil..."
ReplyDeleteIt's the SA attacking the SS. All in business suits.
Plainly a führer is needed to resolve the nuanced policy differences.
Oh my aching sides.
Yes, this is how fascism infests the British military. Of course there were no repercussions...that's not how hole-in-the-corner domestic British fascism works.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thenational.scot/news/14899619.inquiry-call-after-army-generals-warning-of-mutiny-if-jeremy-corbyn-becomes-prime-minister/
Usually it prefers to visit its homicidal lunacy abroad, as per the British Empire, Churchill's mad Operation Unthinkable, or any of the recent war criminal massacres of innocents in the East (you know, aping the nazis allied to Franco fascism).
It's more like A Very British Coup, where one of the film script writers was one "Alastair Campbell" - possibly early practice for "the dossier". A sort of early run for the later propagandists "Two Mortgages" Mandelson, McSweeney and McTernan, plus assorted low level apologist plants. That's how their cowardice works.