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

Because the financial part is a simple yes or no, a concept you seem incapable of grasping.

Because they are incapable of grasping it, that is the reason.

They are literally arguing that up is down right now and think it's a great argument.

Page 9 of that Cutts document which Farage fans hold up as vindicating his financial viability states there are various instances reporting him as a client of Coutts. Here's one example they highlighted from 2019.

Are we seriously supposed to believe that an article in one of the UK's leading papers is not going to be seen by a decent amount of people?

They won't like people calling them racist and xenophobic, they think the couched language and whataboutery is enough cover for it, this lays it bare, an official institution will read through the lines and ignore the childish protests of innocence.

I mean farage is the poster child for "tell me you're racist without telling me you're racist".

The nice thing about all this is Farage loses out whatever he does;

-he has already lost his Coutts account and they ain't offering it back to him

-he has made himself to toxic for any elite bank to take him on (maybe one in Russia might accept him for all the good PR work he did)

-he lost his reputation since he's outed himself as been despised by the British elite and poorer than he would like to claim (maybe he is a man of the people)

-if he goes to court he will lose his shirt since no laws were broken and no slander was committed (since he released the private dossier himself)

There are bonuses to boot;

-if the Tories push ahead with legislation (how would the proposed legislation have saved Farage anyway), they will show themselves to be even more out of touch and elitist than they already are - losing a few more percent in the next election

Then their is the double bonus that Coutts could actually go out of business as a result.

What has Farage gained - the admiration of a few 10's of thousands of assholes who already worshipped the ground he walks upon.

Its a win all-round really.

Of course you wouldn't 🤗

What the government say they will do and what they actually do are two entirely different matters. The Elites of London will be applying significant pressure to change nothing since they actually want the anonymity and exclusivity. This government is gone within a year and they will have far bigger fish to fry than pandering to a populist troll.

So, Farage's views weren't a risk to the bank while he was paying back his mortgage but they were a risk when he had his mortgage fully paid? How does that make sense?

You also mention that banks have a file on people keeping track of their ability to pay back a loan. Farage had the loan paid back. There was no chance of Farage defaulting on the mortgage because he had paid it back so clearly there wasn't a financial risk to the bank from that end.

If the bank were worried about Farage's account being profitable, why didn't they say to him that their rules are x,y,z and you need to either deposit more money or take out another loan etc. or we will close your account. The bank didn't do that. They just wrote to him saying they were closing the account.

Farage is a horrible individual but from an objective point of view, it looks like the decision to close his account was a political decision.

Maybe because they simply didn't want his custom. His diminished status in their eyes were the excuse they needed to carry out their assessment which was based upon his low character.

Would you be as shocked if an exclusive Golf/Country club were doing background checks on new members ? Coutts similarity to an exclusive country club is far stronger than its similarity to a highstreet bank.

The underlying question here is do you really want to remove the right of individuals and private organisations to pick and choose who they associate with - because that the core issue here. Think hard about what that means.

Pyrrick victory for Farage since his status is exactly where it was at the start.