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

I suspect that they share his world view(or at least the world view he generally parrots), that everything that’s wrong in the world can be blamed on immigrants or wokeness, so everything that happens to him could happen to them.

Even the fact that he’s a proven serial liar who constantly misrepresents situations to his own personal benefit only, and who’d happily sell each and every one of his supporters down the river to make his life slightly more comfortable is immaterial.

The bank absolutely does raise the commercial issues in the document. Haven't you read it? It's right there on page 1.

Farage has been a customer of Coutts for many years, and for most if not all of those years his views have been publicly known, and publicly controversial. If the bank were going to drop him purely because of his views, they would have done so many years ago.

There's more to the decision than that. The bank weighs the reputational risk to the bank from being associated with Farage against the commercial benefit of having his custom. While he had a mortgage outstanding, there was commercial benefit to the bank in having his custom, and that outweighed the reputational risk. Now that the mortgage is paid off, as far as the bank is concerned the balance tips the other way. So it's sayonara, Nige.

This may be distasteful, it may be concerning, but as the behaviour of profit-driven, advantage-seeking bankers it's hardly surprising or (in general) unusual. And it certainly won't have surprised Farage, whose own background is commercial banking (Drexel Burnham Lambert, Credit Lyonnais). He understands exactly what is going on.

What it isn't is what Farage claimed; the product of an establishment conspiracy to drive him out of the country.

I would argue that at the level that we’re talking about, it’s not good or bad, it just …is.

This is a hyper-exclusive organisation acting hyper-exclusively. It’s a posh country club or golf course. They won’t deal with just anyone, and as a private company they’re entitled to do so.

It would be a different matter if high street banks started using its influence to ensure some people get treated unfairly, but we’re really a world away from that.

This is the bit I’m really struggling to understand in this. If Farage had enough £££££££ in his account Coutt’s wouldn’t have moved to push him down to the less prestigious NatWest services.

Every other Brexit grifter seemed to be doing a good job of coining it in on the side whilst shafting the rest of the UK. Farage seems to be showing himself up as having been too dumb to capitalise on exactly what he was fronting the campaign for

Or shockingly he could have simply believed in what he was selling, and was not on the boat simply to make bank. How can anything be honestly analysed when you're so entrenched in your views? This is the problem with threads like this too, even if Farage was banned from every bank in the U.K, posters would still justify it, and never admit that they were wrong in the first place.

Farage has been banned from 0 banks. He's just too poor to qualify for special services.

... but thats not the reality, he has as much right to a bank account as you or I. I can hate the man all I like but it doesn't change that basic fact that his rights are equal to mine and yours.

NatWest Group have not refused his business - they’ve simply directed him to a branch of their business that seemingly isn’t prestigious enough for Farage’s ego

Maybe Nigel believed in leaving the EU was right. People do actually believe that the EU is not good.