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[STEMO]

By the financial watchdog for not adhering to anti money laundering rules.  Apparently, a jeweller from Bradford liked to put a few quid into his business account now and again. Well...he is a jeweller, they take in a few Bob, don't they?

From the Independent:

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) alleged the bank failed to monitor suspect activity by a client who deposited £365m over the five-year period, including £264m in cash.

 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Wasn't the 'jeweller' Petra Ecclestone's ex husband James Stunt?   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

[Sir Tigger KC]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

[Sir Tigger KC]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Perhaps you could relocate to live with your geriatric great uncle in Barnsley.

He must be worth a bob or two.

[Sir Tigger KC]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Perhaps you could relocate to live with your geriatric great uncle in Barnsley.

He must be worth a bob or two.

I'd probably find the girls round there are a bit too classy for me. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Perhaps you could relocate to live with your geriatric great uncle in Barnsley.

He must be worth a bob or two.

I'd probably find the girls round there are a bit too classy for me. 

New York.....Paris......Barnsley.

This time next year you'll be a millionaire.

[Doctor Gollum]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Tenant farmers not paying their rents? 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Tenant farmers not paying their rents? 

If so he should insist on 'payment in kind' from the farmers daughter.

[Sir Tigger KC]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Tenant farmers not paying their rents? 

If so he should insist on 'payment in kind' from the farmers daughter.

Ha that how you treat your peasants M'lud?   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

264M in cash?

Not in one deposit, I imagine.

That amount in notes would be the size of a small house.

You'd know!   

I can honestly say I've never had more cash than can be fitted into a large 20x30x10 room. 

You're the man who owns half of 'Darzett'

Rural poverty is a terrible thing M'lud. 

Tenant farmers not paying their rents? 

If so he should insist on 'payment in kind' from the farmers daughter.

Ha that how you treat your peasants M'lud?   

But of course....

This type of payment is as old as time itself.

[Varche]

Yet if you try and arrange to withdraw a few thousand in cash to pay tradesman involved in building a garden wall you have to jump through all manner of hoops.

[STEMO]

Yet if you try and arrange to withdraw a few thousand in cash to pay tradesman involved in building a garden wall you have to jump through all manner of hoops.

HMRC are trying to stop those kind of cash payments, they much prefer a method that can be traced (and taxed).

[Varche]

In Spain it is already illegal to pay a bill over 1000 euros in cash. Shops have signs up saying cash not accepted over 1000.

All understandable but old habits die hard. Both customers and businesses still prefer cash if the job is “ cheaper”. Ironically, the pandemic has helped countries move closer to the cashless dream.

[Rangie]

Yet if you try and arrange to withdraw a few thousand in cash to pay tradesman involved in building a garden wall you have to jump through all manner of hoops.

HMRC are trying to stop those kind of cash payments, they much prefer a method that can be traced (and taxed).

. 


Part cash the rest in cheque or card an easy way round that.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I went to the bank to get a largish amount of cash for a potential car purchase a few months ago and it was like the Spanish Inquisition!  Why do you want it? What's it for? Can't you pay it online etc etc     Banks are slowly disappearing from the high street, so before long it will be impossible to get cash anyway. 

It's all part of the Great Reset/Build Back Better bullshit.  Command and control is on it's way folks and we are meekly sliding into a 'Papers please society' under the guise of Covid and your vaccination status. 

Scotland and Wales have introduced the Covid Pass/Passport and I'd bet that they will will expand the use of them so you have to have one to do ordinary things like enter a supermarket.  For now they have been put on the back burner in England, but for sure they are waiting for an excuse to introduce them like a winter spike in Covid cases. 

I just read a thread on Twitter (So it must be true!  ) about life in Lithuania where having a Covid Pass has become essential to go about your daily life. Jobs require one, Supermarkets and large stores like DIY sheds require one, even some small shops ban people with out a pass, tradesmen can't visit someone's house if they don't have a pass, Doctors and Dentists won't see you unless you have one.    In France you have to have the pass to enter a supermarket, so what's happening in Lithuania isn't unique. 

Conspiracy theory?    Maybe! 

I'm not anti Vax BTW and have had my jabs, but if people don't want to have the jab for what ever reason it's their choice and I believe that the unvaccinated are no threat to me.  More of the threat to themselves TBH. 

[STEMO]

I went to the bank to get a largish amount of cash for a potential car purchase a few months ago and it was like the Spanish Inquisition!  Why do you want it? What's it for? Can't you pay it online etc etc     Banks are slowly disappearing from the high street, so before long it will be impossible to get cash anyway. 

It's all part of the Great Reset/Build Back Better bullshit.  Command and control is on it's way folks and we are meekly sliding into a 'Papers please society' under the guise of Covid and your vaccination status. 

Scotland and Wales have introduced the Covid Pass/Passport and I'd bet that they will will expand the use of them so you have to have one to do ordinary things like enter a supermarket.  For now they have been put on the back burner in England, but for sure they are waiting for an excuse to introduce them like a winter spike in Covid cases. 

I just read a thread on Twitter (So it must be true!  ) about life in Lithuania where having a Covid Pass has become essential to go about your daily life. Jobs require one, Supermarkets and large stores like DIY sheds require one, even some small shops ban people with out a pass, tradesmen can't visit someone's house if they don't have a pass, Doctors and Dentists won't see you unless you have one.    In France you have to have the pass to enter a supermarket, so what's happening in Lithuania isn't unique. 

Conspiracy theory?    Maybe! 

I'm not anti Vax BTW and have had my jabs, but if people don't want to have the jab for what ever reason it's their choice and I believe that the unvaccinated are no threat to me.  More of the threat to themselves TBH. 

That's ok, as long as those who are unvaccinated and catch covid are made to do the 10 days isolation, without pay/benefits, unless there is a medical reason for not having it. If caught out and about, they should be fined heavily.

You never mentioned the good old US, where teachers and medical staff are about to lose their jobs if not vaccinated.

I'm going for my booster next Friday, btw 

[Doctor Gollum]

There's a fast growing issue in the US where they're trying to federally mandate vaccinations, so a lot of employers are insisting on vaccination as a condition of employment... A lot of people, whilst not necessarily anti vax per se, don't like being told what to do on principle and are walking away from their professions... And it's not the spotty yoofs, but rather teachers/doctors/nurses etc

Although it does surprise me that medical people don't see the benefit to being vaccinated.

That said, everything is being sold as an incentive... One lock down and everything will be fine. Wear a mask and everything will be fine. Get jabbed and everything will be fine.

Now nearly two years later, people glare at you for not wearing a mask in an open field and we can travel if... And there is talk again if a fourth lock down and compulsory booster jabs.

Again not anti vax, double jabbed etc, but I agree with the sentiment that something is very wrong about the whole thing 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I went to the bank to get a largish amount of cash for a potential car purchase a few months ago and it was like the Spanish Inquisition!  Why do you want it? What's it for? Can't you pay it online etc etc     Banks are slowly disappearing from the high street, so before long it will be impossible to get cash anyway. 

It's all part of the Great Reset/Build Back Better bullshit.  Command and control is on it's way folks and we are meekly sliding into a 'Papers please society' under the guise of Covid and your vaccination status. 

Scotland and Wales have introduced the Covid Pass/Passport and I'd bet that they will will expand the use of them so you have to have one to do ordinary things like enter a supermarket.  For now they have been put on the back burner in England, but for sure they are waiting for an excuse to introduce them like a winter spike in Covid cases. 

I just read a thread on Twitter (So it must be true!  ) about life in Lithuania where having a Covid Pass has become essential to go about your daily life. Jobs require one, Supermarkets and large stores like DIY sheds require one, even some small shops ban people with out a pass, tradesmen can't visit someone's house if they don't have a pass, Doctors and Dentists won't see you unless you have one.    In France you have to have the pass to enter a supermarket, so what's happening in Lithuania isn't unique. 

Conspiracy theory?    Maybe! 

I'm not anti Vax BTW and have had my jabs, but if people don't want to have the jab for what ever reason it's their choice and I believe that the unvaccinated are no threat to me.  More of the threat to themselves TBH. 

That's ok, as long as those who are unvaccinated and catch covid are made to do the 10 days isolation, without pay/benefits, unless there is a medical reason for not having it. If caught out and about, they should be fined heavily.

You never mentioned the good old US, where teachers and medical staff are about to lose their jobs if not vaccinated.

I'm going for my booster next Friday, btw

I've been a good boy and had 2 jabs.

Not going for a booster.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I went to the bank to get a largish amount of cash for a potential car purchase a few months ago and it was like the Spanish Inquisition!  Why do you want it? What's it for? Can't you pay it online etc etc     Banks are slowly disappearing from the high street, so before long it will be impossible to get cash anyway. 

It's all part of the Great Reset/Build Back Better bullshit.  Command and control is on it's way folks and we are meekly sliding into a 'Papers please society' under the guise of Covid and your vaccination status. 

Scotland and Wales have introduced the Covid Pass/Passport and I'd bet that they will will expand the use of them so you have to have one to do ordinary things like enter a supermarket.  For now they have been put on the back burner in England, but for sure they are waiting for an excuse to introduce them like a winter spike in Covid cases. 

I just read a thread on Twitter (So it must be true!  ) about life in Lithuania where having a Covid Pass has become essential to go about your daily life. Jobs require one, Supermarkets and large stores like DIY sheds require one, even some small shops ban people with out a pass, tradesmen can't visit someone's house if they don't have a pass, Doctors and Dentists won't see you unless you have one.    In France you have to have the pass to enter a supermarket, so what's happening in Lithuania isn't unique. 

Conspiracy theory?    Maybe! 

I'm not anti Vax BTW and have had my jabs, but if people don't want to have the jab for what ever reason it's their choice and I believe that the unvaccinated are no threat to me.  More of the threat to themselves TBH. 

It is Orwellian.

But the Ministry of truth speaks only the truth. Winston smith knew this after a visit to Room 101.

[Doctor Gollum]

Did he happen to mention whose truth? 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Here's the Lithuania Twitter thread I mentioned earlier. 

And then there's Australia.... 

[Doctor Gollum]

Australia is totally done. 

I had always had Lithuania pegged as a reasonable place... It would seem that their Soviet past isn't quite as past as one might have thought.

[Doctor Gollum]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/uk-brink-joining-eu-passport-scheme-sources-confirm-nhs-system/

Hmmm... 

[LC0112G]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/uk-brink-joining-eu-passport-scheme-sources-confirm-nhs-system/

Hmmm... 

There is already "Aussweiss bitte" at Schengen border crossings so for me his is actually a good thing. It means that UK vaccinated people will be recognised within EU passport schemes rather than having to jump through hoops to travel. It's not forcing UK subjects to be vaxxed - and if you choose to not get vaxxed you are already barred from entering France, Austria and Germany AIUI.

What it should do is allow easier access for UK subjects who chose to be vaxxed to have easier access to EU countries. Hopefully it'll also keep out the 12-16 y/o sprogs who will only have had one jab by Christmas, so I can ski in peace

[Sir Tigger KC]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/uk-brink-joining-eu-passport-scheme-sources-confirm-nhs-system/

Hmmm... 

From the above article....

The EU Digital Covid Certificate has quickly become the biggest vaccine passport scheme in the world and covers more than 40 countries, including all 27 EU states and others as far afield as Israel and Panama.

The system is effectively a giant digital platform or "gateway" through which different countries' vaccine certificates and test results can be scanned and verified as legitimate by others quickly and easily.


THat's a big database holding a lot of information on people.     There might be a temptation to use it for other purposes.   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

Yes and there are a lot of fearful people about. 

We all see them wearing a mask outside with nobody about. 

Or wearing a mask whilst driving a car.... alone! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

Yes and there are a lot of fearful people about. 

We all see them wearing a mask outside with nobody about. 

Or wearing a mask whilst driving a car.... alone! 

I saw a woman wearing a mask under a clear plastic visor the other day.

I imagine this person was fearful in her everyday life before covid, and that the 'lurgy' has just added to it.

[STEMO]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

Yes and there are a lot of fearful people about. 

We all see them wearing a mask outside with nobody about. 

Or wearing a mask whilst driving a car.... alone! 

Some people just look better in a mask. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

Yes and there are a lot of fearful people about. 

We all see them wearing a mask outside with nobody about. 

Or wearing a mask whilst driving a car.... alone! 

I saw a woman wearing a mask under a clear plastic visor the other day.

I imagine this person was fearful in her everyday life before covid, and that the 'lurgy' has just added to it.

I think I mentioned it a few weeks ago, but the funniest one I've seen, was when I was working on a roof a while a ago and saw a woman come out of her house into the back garden 3 doors down, to put her washing out and she was wearing a mask! 

I was the only one around!    Although conceivably there might have been an infected person lurking in the back alley poised to breath over her garden wall?     

Poor woman must be terrified..... of everything! 

[Doctor Gollum]

I collected Mother's papers this morning... Daily Fail and the i...

I barely managed to contain the instant explosion of rage and that was just the i...

I daren't look at the Fail

Although I note that the Fail has just bought the i

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Regardless of how much government ( around the world) talks about free speech and free choice, what they really like to see is 'compliance'

Some people will be more 'compliant' and easily led than others. I'm sure all government is compiling data on how compliant people are. This will prove very useful for any future war/pandemic..etc..etc.

The more fearful people are the more compliant they will be.

Yes and there are a lot of fearful people about. 

We all see them wearing a mask outside with nobody about. 

Or wearing a mask whilst driving a car.... alone! 

I saw a woman wearing a mask under a clear plastic visor the other day.

I imagine this person was fearful in her everyday life before covid, and that the 'lurgy' has just added to it.

Or maybe she had a severely compromised immune system and needs to be very careful
Swmbo has barely left the house in the last 18 months for this reason. Apart from when we both go for a walk across the fields where there are very few, if any, people around.

[Rangie]

Entirely up to individual personal choice , I wouldn't criticise anyone for wearing or not wearing a mask,  however if anyone came near me coughing & spluttering they would get a severe reaction from me.

[Doctor Gollum]

What did she do pre TCV? I understand the need to be sensible, but living scared of your own shadow is surely no way to live

Entirely up to individual personal choice , I wouldn't criticise anyone for wearing or not wearing a mask,  however if anyone came near me coughing & spluttering they would get a severe reaction from me.

That's a decency thing rather than TCV specific though...

[STEMO]

She might be ugly as f**k but has nice eyes. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Welcome to Utopia

[Varche]

Hopefully not in my lifetime…..

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Welcome to Utopia

I watched all 14.22 of this.

Dystopia being sold to a 'compliant' population as Utopia.

Enabled by left wing 'group think'

[Sir Tigger KC]

More dystopia here! 

Digital currencies this time.  The article talks about how the digital currency could be programmed so you can only buy certain things, or limit bad things like meat for example. 

One thing it doesn't mention is that digital currencies could come with an expiry date forcing you to spend your money by a certain date, which could be varied if the economy needed a boost for example. 

Another conspiracy theory? 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

More dystopia here! 

Digital currencies this time.  The article talks about how the digital currency could be programmed so you can only buy certain things, or limit bad things like meat for example. 

One thing it doesn't mention is that digital currencies could come with an expiry date forcing you to spend your money by a certain date, which could be varied if the economy needed a boost for example. 

Another conspiracy theory? 

Becoming less so with each passing day.

[STEMO]

Only people with loadsamoney would have to worry about that.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Only people with loadsamoney would have to worry about that.

You think?    Did you read the article? 

The thing with digital currencies is the potential to control all aspects of our lives, from how much you spend on booze, to how many holiday's you take, to how many miles you can drive your electric car each month. 

I might start buying gold! 

 

[STEMO]

Only people with loadsamoney would have to worry about that.

You think?    Did you read the article? 

The thing with digital currencies is the potential to control all aspects of our lives, from how much you spend on booze, to how many holiday's you take, to how many miles you can drive your electric car each month. 

I might start buying gold! 

Or stop reading stupid articles 

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Settle down.
I'm glad Al's not online. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Settle down.
I'm glad Al's not online. 

Where's Rods2 when you need him eh?   I bet he has a few thoughts about it all and I expect it would all be Putin's doing!

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Settle down.
I'm glad Al's not online. 

Where's Rods2 when you need him eh?   I bet he has a few thoughts about it all and I expect it would all be Putin's doing!

The KGB finally got to him.
Or was it the Martians? 

[Doctor Gollum]

Quick question...

Define non compliant media

[Sir Tigger KC]

Quick question...

Define non compliant media

Good question! 

Any media organisation, website or journalist that doesn't come under the umbrella of the big corporate mainstream media, who we have seen blatantly try to influence events rather than just report them. 

The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story for example. 

[STEMO]

Oh God, the noisy twins are out of bed again 

[New POD]

This money laundering crap is a pain in the arse.
My wife is waiting for her share of her parents assets, and my son (an accountant) has been helpibgbjer set up various investments and accounts.
The money will come from a traceable UK bank account, with the solicitor into a joint account, where I am tasked with distributing it to her new accounts. On attempting to open a "Marcus" account, there is a question about where the money comes from.
They ticked inheritance.
It now requires death certificate, copy of will, and a letter from.the solicitor. 
We don't have these and asking the Executor to obtain them is apparently too much stress for him. The solicitor is an arse anyway. I told him, not to deal with the firm he used, because I've had dealings with them and they were uselessly ineffective.
Going back and attempting to tick a different box is apparently not possible.

[LC0112G]

It now requires death certificate, copy of will, and a letter from.the solicitor. 

The will and the death certificate are 'public documents' and you can download them from the relevant .gov website. There is a charge - but it's only a few quid IIRC.

Solicitors letter - hmmm. Unlikely that'll be cheap. One of the reasons to not have solicitors named as executors. The solicitor is supposed to act in the interests of the deceased's estate so you telling him to do things may not work.

The 'easy' way around it would have been to simply transfer the money into an account your wife already had open. Keep it simple, and once the money is in your wifes accounts you/she can do what she wants with it. The exception is if she is inheriting a pension pot of money. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I can remember conversations in the past about "what would you do if you found a holdall with a million quid in used notes inside ?"
Nowadays, its hard to think of anything you could do with it, other than hand it to the boys in blue. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

Yeh I just get a back hander from the rest of you.  Bastids! 

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

Yeh I just get a back hander from the rest of you.  Bastids! 

But we love your naïvety 

[ronnyd]

This money laundering crap is a pain in the arse.
My wife is waiting for her share of her parents assets, and my son (an accountant) has been helpibgbjer set up various investments and accounts.
The money will come from a traceable UK bank account, with the solicitor into a joint account, where I am tasked with distributing it to her new accounts. On attempting to open a "Marcus" account, there is a question about where the money comes from.
They ticked inheritance.
It now requires death certificate, copy of will, and a letter from.the solicitor. 
We don't have these and asking the Executor to obtain them is apparently too much stress for him. The solicitor is an arse anyway. I told him, not to deal with the firm he used, because I've had dealings with them and they were uselessly ineffective.
Going back and attempting to tick a different box is apparently not possible.

My Mum's little bungalow was only part owned be her, the rest is owned by the estate of my late cousin. It's administered by two trustees, one of which is a solicitor, a partner in the firm who look after the whole of cousins estate. To say that they are useless would be a total understatement. Mum was buried mid January and the bungalow is still not  on the market. The buggers are stalling on all fronts using a slight subsidence issue as a reason. All the beneficiaries just want it sold but just getting a face to face meeting with them is proving to be a difficult thing. Using Covid as a excuse not to meet to discuss the issues. Frustrating for my brother and myself, especially him as he is mid eighties. 

[LC0112G]

My Mum's little bungalow was only part owned be her, the rest is owned by the estate of my late cousin. It's administered by two trustees, one of which is a solicitor, a partner in the firm who look after the whole of cousins estate. To say that they are useless would be a total understatement. Mum was buried mid January and the bungalow is still not  on the market. The buggers are stalling on all fronts using a slight subsidence issue as a reason. All the beneficiaries just want it sold but just getting a face to face meeting with them is proving to be a difficult thing. Using Covid as a excuse not to meet to discuss the issues. Frustrating for my brother and myself, especially him as he is mid eighties. 

You need to be careful here, and urge the solicitor to pull their finger out. If the bungalow rises in value between the time the deceased dies (often when probate is granted), and the when it's finally sold, then the estate can be responsible for capital gains tax on the rise in value.
 
https://www.pem.co.uk/article/capital-gains-tax-selling-a-property-after-death/

The estate is responsible for paying this tax, and only gets one lot of CGT allowance (£10K IIRC).

[ronnyd]

My Mum's little bungalow was only part owned be her, the rest is owned by the estate of my late cousin. It's administered by two trustees, one of which is a solicitor, a partner in the firm who look after the whole of cousins estate. To say that they are useless would be a total understatement. Mum was buried mid January and the bungalow is still not  on the market. The buggers are stalling on all fronts using a slight subsidence issue as a reason. All the beneficiaries just want it sold but just getting a face to face meeting with them is proving to be a difficult thing. Using Covid as a excuse not to meet to discuss the issues. Frustrating for my brother and myself, especially him as he is mid eighties. 

You need to be careful here, and urge the solicitor to pull their finger out. If the bungalow rises in value between the time the deceased dies (often when probate is granted), and the when it's finally sold, then the estate can be responsible for capital gains tax on the rise in value.
 
https://www.pem.co.uk/article/capital-gains-tax-selling-a-property-after-death/

The estate is responsible for paying this tax, and only gets one lot of CGT allowance (£10K IIRC).

Thanks for the info. I will mention this to my brother, as he is the one who is dealing with this. It's a strange arrangement, as my parents names are not on the deeds, but there are legal documents stating that they are entitled to their share of the property, which is less than 20%. The names on the deeds are the two trustees, a fact we only found out after Mum died. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

Yeh I just get a back hander from the rest of you.  Bastids! 

But we love your naïvety

Not sure naivety is the right word for a healthy scepticism of the authorities intentions.   

[STEMO]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

Yeh I just get a back hander from the rest of you.  Bastids! 

But we love your naïvety

Not sure naivety is the right word for a healthy scepticism of the authorities intentions.   

Ok, but don't get carried away 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Read this instead

https://www.dw.com/en/latest-conspiracy-theories-repeat-old-stories/a-53603358

I love a good conspiracy theory me!                                                                       

The thing is though..... The digital currency thing is real.  How it might be applied is subject to speculation at this point though, so of course people's imaginations will run riot. 

The Covid Pass in Lithuania is real and they've just introduced them in Wales.  You think that they'll just limit the use of them to nightclubs, sporting events and other events with crowds of people?  Of course not! It's a Labour 'government'!    I bet that as people meekly comply, they'll expand the use of Covid Passes to supermarkets, B&Q etc like they did in Lithuania! 

Why Lithuania?  Because it's a small 'backwater' country where something like this can be trialled away from the gaze of the non compliant media. 

Despite being a yokel from 'Darzett' Tigger is more right than he is wrong.

I think that this sort of comment is known as a back handed compliment.   

But you'll only get it from Opti or Al. Go figure 

Yeh I just get a back hander from the rest of you.  Bastids! 

But we love your naïvety

Not sure naivety is the right word for a healthy scepticism of the authorities intentions.   

Ok, but don't get carried away 

Love a good conspiracy theory though! 

David Icke anyone?