Nigel Farage cries persecution, nobody wants to be his banker after ties to Russia

Why though? I don’t understand why businesses such as banks (or anyone) should be forced to offer their services to anyone.

I am trying to think of a left wing equivalent to Nigel Farage, but I can’t. Maybe you could suggest one? Then we could try and figure out a business that could justify withdrawing their services due to this lefties beliefs.

How about Jeremy Corbyn , I mean he's antisemitic (according to the Labour party itself) so maybe he should have his bank account cancelled for that reason.

You can apply the reasons for cancelling Farage's bank account to anyone you dislike if you want to, doesn't matter if the reasons are true or not you just have to pretend they are true.

I don’t think anyone believes Corbyn is actually anti-Semitic. He was classed that because of his support of Palestine. Most of Ireland would officially be “anti-Semitic” if that was the case.

But OK, if a known anti-Semite had their bank account cancelled, I don’t think anyone would mind.

Did you think the baker had a right to refuse the gay couple’s cake? That was the classic example of a business withholding service from a customer and most on the right side of the aisle sided with the baker. Strange to think they might now side with the customer on this one.

It's not specifically about people's beliefs per se, it's about whether the potential loss of business or damage to the bank's reputation by having such a high profile customer is worth it.

Coutts believe having Farage as a customer is not worth it. It's a business decision.

But it's bullsh1t, Farage would have no impact on their business or reputation, they also certainly have had dealings with much worse individuals than him. This is just an excuse, they don't like his politics so we'll punish him for it.

Not a shred of evidence, except for his defence of anti-semitic murals (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43523445), his praise for anti-semitic writings by Hobson (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/01/uk/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-ja-hobson-foreword-intl-gbr/index.html).

Being charitable to Corbyn, the best you can say is that he has a track record of turning a blind eye to anti-semitism.

It's sad indictment of the moral compass of many of his supporters that they continually try to dismiss all this as an anti-Corbyn conspiracy. It's the same moral blindness that the supporters of Farage and his ilk apply to ignore his countless faults

Think you mean Aaarn Banks. A proper dodgepot.

Any news lads, just catching up on it now ?

Many are pushing for a cashless world, and if you want a cashless world, literally everyone should have a right to access banking. Unless of course you want some system where "bad people" aren't allowed access to banking, which would mean they'd have no access to anything. That would be quite dystopian to say the least.

Looks like Gordon Brown was proven correct about Mr. Paypal.

But we’re talking about Coutts here, not a normal bank.

He was offered a NatWest account wasn’t he?

Back to the bakery. Did you support the owner choosing not to bake the gay couple a wedding cake? It’s exactly the same. Coutts said, “we don’t want to serve your type, we don’t want our brand associated with the likes of you” (obviously paraphrasing). The bakery said, “we don’t want to serve your type, we don’t want our brand associated with the likes of you”.

The difference was the bank went on to offer a boring “normal” account with one of their other companies, but the bakery (afaik) didn’t offer to make the homosexual couple a plain cake.

Coutts has always been a bank that prides itself on its political agenda as a "bank of the queen" and the upper class. A bank wanting rich people may just seem like good business but the Coutts brand focuses on the British class divide and the idea that it's customers can brag about being "the elite"

If the idea is "I want to join because lord Buldington and lady Saxo-Coburg are members" then it should come as no surprise when their elitism bites you on the arrse.