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My local odeon has the ticket machines near the front door. It’s the only way to buy tickets in the building and THEY CHARGE THE SAME BOOKING FEE THEY DO ONLINE

Explains a lot tbh

This is what highly regulated companies like banks, law firms, insurance companies etc. do for all Politically Exposed Persons. It’s not about corporate values, it’s about risk exposure, especially if there’s the possibility of a conflict of interest.

For example, a bank will want to know if there’s a risk of that person being subject to international sanctions due to people they have met or accepted money from, or a risk that a person’s finances may be investigated for fraud, or if someone is suing that person using using the same lawyers the bank uses. They create a report of anything that may be relevant in future and keep it up to date.

The “doesn’t align with our values” is PR for “this guy’s too risky for the amount of money he has”

Their policies have drifted to the right under Starmer but they’re not even close to being the neoliberal extremists that the Conservative Party still are.

Labour are far from ideal right now but it’s wrong to say they’re the same.