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

They also have a woke problem as well from the sound of it. Systemic it is, this is what needs stamping out.

Reading the reasons, they're entirely acceptable. She misrepresented a business account when creating it. This is a gotcha? And it was pretty clearly against their terms and conditions when she signed up...

It's a bate and switch campaign of the right, make people poor and angry and then divert that anger onto some minority. Meanwhile the people who made you angry get praised for identifying the false cause.

It's really sad that people are stupid enough to fall for it every time.

Oh he’s going to ride this one for all it’s worth. Never look a Gift “Woke Lefty Loonie Conspiracy” in the mouth, after all. He can continue to “fight against this” when we all know what he really means is to winge continuously about it on Social media and on that collective screaming box masquerading as a “News” channel. Heaven forbid he’d try to do something potentially useful like actually bringing the bank to court, or even try to run as an MP…(8th try is the charm maybe? With what….the 4th Party he’s been with so far?)

Nah, that kind of affirmative action is for losers. Real winners dox themselves spectacularly by showing that they’re losing money and had been banking with a organisation that his typical supporters would likely never be allowed within eyeshot of the building, let alone give an account to.

Coutts were of course idiots for leaking the data that they did. We now know that Farage is losing money. We shouldn’t, but we do. They deserve all of the headaches that they get because of this. But at the same time, Farage himself was likely a massive headache for them too. He is a headache for the collective world of anyone weary of the nonsense he encourages, but for anyone who have to personally deal with him it must be worse. They had to do weekly risk assessments on him near the end; which is time, money and resources tied up on a client who was on the threshold of not meeting their criteria. In other words, he was no longer worth the effort or cost.

NatWest is just a high street bank, where all and sundry bank with them so long as they can maintain a modest balance. Ditto for their Business Banking. But what Farage wanted was his Financial Butlers. Someone to babysit his investments for him (essentially to do the actual investment work) while doing house calls for things like his annual statement. Trick is, Coutts give a damn about their standing, and with Farage being so very public they had to asses potential damage to their standing versus his monetary worth to them. It wasn’t worth it anymore, so they wanted to kick him over to NatWest where they don’t really care *as much* about how they appear.

They likely gave him his warning months ago, but rather than weigh his options officially Farage possibly went for the “Don’t you know who I am?!” route, had a strop and then hoped that he’d be let stay on for the sake of keeping him sweet…he is after all *Nigel Farage, Brexiteer Extraordinaire, Slayer of the Woke, Spotter of Immigrant Boats, GB presenter of News*…the First of his Name,. But no, they didn’t care, and so we get him having a hissy fit while his bosses read the room and short the stocks of his old bank.

Since Farage failed to get into any of the other Boutique banks in the UK (about 7 of them apparently?), I’m going to assume that he quietly went into a high street bank. Probably into the NatWest account that was offered since that transfer would probably have been more automatic. Of course he’s never going to admit that. He’ll run this crusade for as long as it is useful for him and will eventually be swapped out for some other “woke” outrage.

The usual projection. I don’t like it when someone I like has a bank account closed so the opposite must be true.

I don’t particularly care that someone who is Anti Brexit got their account closed, indeed, the article gives a perfectly satisfactory explanation.

Its quite a jump though, because now that Nigel has had an account closed, you seem to find the very act of closing an account inherently political, which of course, it isn’t. There are loads of valid reasons a bank will choose to terminate a relationship.

In both Miller and Farages cases, the bank acted well within their rights.

I cant read his mind but the issue in general ought to be investigated to keep these institution honest. I work on the assumption that individuals are generally innocent til proven guilty but institutions/government need to prove their innocence.

This is not what happened here and if you go back a few pages you will see the reason he was asked to leave. It's already been discussed. If you are happy sharing a space with such a pastor it reflects badly on you.

When I ask for evidence of your claims about Konstantin whatsisname you just tell me to wait and see and then head off into a screed about someone else entirely.

You can see, can't you, how this make it difficult to take your claims and arguments seriously?

Be a man and say openly that you don't know why whatsisname's account was closed and you were wrong to suggest that you did. I'd have a bit of respect for you then.

As for the Reverend Richard Fothergill, the honours students will have noted that, while he has clearly given the Press the text of the letter from the Yorkshire Building, he doesn't seem to have shown them the "polite complaint" he made to the YBS that they regarded as intolerable and that, in their view, caused the irrevocable breakdown of the relationship. I wonder why he didn't? I also wonder why it doesn't seem to have occurred to you to wonder why he didn't?

I'll reserve judgment on this one until I've seen both sides of the correspondence. You would too, if you had a titter of wit.