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

See, this is the kind of Trumpian post-truthery that is second nature to Farage fanboys. Rapidash assumes that if, he blandly claims with sufficient confidence that the Coutts dossier shows that Farage's relationship with Russia had nothing to do with them, people will assume he is telling the truth.

The dossier mentions it repeatedly.

On page 6, mention that "a damning video of all the times Nigel Farage has praised Vladimir Putin is going viral on Twitter", and pointing out that "Farage also blamed the EU and the expansion of NATO for allegedly starting some of the violence, calling the expansion “provocative” and claiming it was “encircling” Russia.”

On page 8, half a page analysing the public perception of Farage's links to Russia, making the points that

• He has regularly been seen to be pro Russia / pro Putin.
• Even following the Russian invasion, he did not criticise Putin but instead blamed the invasion of the EU and NATO.
• He questioned the sanctioning of Russian individuals.
• He appeared regularly on RT (up until around 2016/2017 although was offered his own show on RT in 2018).
• Farage has been labelled a “useful idiot” for Russian influence in the UK.

On page 10, "there is significant adverse press relating to ‘NF’ in the public domain particularly in relation to their association with ‘Russia’".

On page 12, the "main themes highlighted" in adverse press coverage of Farage since 2016 include "Russia/Pro Putin/RT links".

Etc, etc. It's impossible to read the Coutts dossier and not understand that Farage's comments about the EU, NATO and Russia and the general "useful idiot" role he plays for the Russians were instrumental in the views that Coutts formed and the decision that they took.

The specific complaint by nige is that people are been debanked for their political views. There is zero evidence that customers of high street banks are losing their accounts for their political view. ZERO EVIDENCE.

Your "working assumption" is not just that the banks are guilty; it's that they're guilty of the very thing you need them to be guilty of in order to bolster your preconceptions. The bank could have closed Konstantin's account for any number of poor reasons but, no, you assume that their reason was the specific one it would have to be in order for Konstantin's case to support your convictions.

I'm sorry, silverharp, but that's not the way reality works. Your convictions, however sincere, cannot magic up the facts you so desperately want. Your convictions, to be of any value, must be based on the facts. If you do things the other way around your convictions are delusions and the facts will forever remain unknown to you.

The Tories have so badly mismanaged the countries economy that they have driven 100s of thousands into bankruptcy destitution and bad credit ratings, all reasons for banks withdrawing services. The Tories will resist any review of the banking sector because any such review will show they are the main cause of banks withdrawing services.

Farages crucade is a mixed up mess that actually deliberately avoids address the issues causing multiple crisis across the whole economy.

This is pretty much part of why I feel GB News itself has some diffculty getting advert revenue. A large segment of potential advertisers have may kept their distance due to the reputational damage advertising on the channel might glean. Regardless of their political standing, many of them simply might not want the headache of having to defend paying money towards such a foghorn of hatred. Far easier for them to not bother, verses the miniscule value of having their advert appear there.

His freedom of speech has not been curtailed. Has he been stopped making his views known by any institution in the UK?

And controversy is subjective - so in the banks view, his publicly stated views are controversial enough to introduce risk. Or should private banks have their subjectivity taken away from them?

Nope. If the bank could reasonably assume that Murphy was too much risk and closed his account, then that’s up to them. Same as Farage.