[Bones McCoy]

Spiked (yrs, I know) is right behind Farage with a serious editorial about this sinister new front in the Woke Wars and how we should all be terrified. I don't think Farage's fans are all thick but they all are definitely angry, embittered and utterly convinced that they're society's real victims. For Farage, it's simply a nice little ego boost and probably good for his (standard Nat West?) bank account.

Two cheeks of the same arse.
Nige for the knuckle dragging nationalists (and, say it quietly, disaster capitalists).
Brendan for the edgelords, and "considerably cleverer than youw" contrarians.

[Bones McCoy]

[Youngian]

More injustice from the woke bankers. A customer was questioned on a £25K cash withdrawal which he claimed he needed to buy “Christmas presents and things.”

[Andy McDandy]

25k cash withdrawal usually means cowboy builders demanding money from a vulnerable person.

[MisterMuncher]

There are those in life who fill brown envelopes, and those who empty them, and it's worth reminding which ones the banks are supposed to protect.

[Youngian]

25k cash withdrawal usually means cowboy builders demanding money from a vulnerable person.

‘A very successful businessman’ with over a million a year in his account, hiring Gypsy Joe to tarmac his drive is even less convincing than Christmas shopping. Is he known to his clients as the Snowman?

[Youngian]

He’s still banging on about his bank account. Why’s he more content with telling us it involves dodgy Russian stuff than only having £2.9m in his account?

If you’ve seen Scorsese’s Casino you may recall Ace Rothstein’s insufferable TV show.

[Tubby Isaacs]

When's he publishing this "40 page memo"? Perhaps he could get on with it, because I foresee it arriving in the inbox of an FT journalist fairly soon. Such a journalist might not be particularly inclined to put Nigel's side...

Surprised he told us about all the Russia references. What's the betting the references to Brexit were in connection to Russia?

[Youngian]

Not entirely convinced this is a genuine bankers’ memo but amusing it it is.
A person of a certain age cheekily using his initials in caps.

[Rosvanian]

Who knew that Coutts are communist revolutionaries?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Farage does seem to have a point that whoever briefed Simon Jack wasn't telling the truth. Then again, have we had the 8 other banks named yet?

The worst lawyer on Twitter has got involved. I thought it was about protected characteristics. I didn't know that "values" was one of them, I must say.

[Abernathy]

So, Farage’s Coutts account may have been closed by them basically because he is a racist cunt.

Well, two responses to that :

1. I don’t believe it. The original explanation, that he lacks the financial wherewithal to meet the required threshold for Coutts customers, is marginally more credible.

2. So fucking what? We already knew that Farage is a racist cunt. Coutts was quite right, and within its rights, not to offer him banking facilities. So suck it up, Farage, you racist cunt.


I’m not sure that it’s entirely good for Farage’s PR for him to trumpet that he is a confirmed racist cunt and grifter, but give the cunt enough rope . . .

[Watchman]

But it’s ok for bakers to refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple, because “it doesn’t match our values “

[Youngian]

Couldn’t care less if Farage shared the same bank as me and those with £3m to spare certainly don’t. A bank’s reputation with law enforcement agencies is another matter.

[Abernathy]

It strikes me that this nonsense is simply more attention-seeking bollocks from Farage, with added paranoia, designed to whip up the hard-of-thinking into yet another confected frothing moral outrage ("if it can happen to Nige, who's next?") and afford the flagging Farage brand some sort of media boost. And the usual media suspects are falling in behind it: listening a bit to the ridiculous Tom Swarbrick, whom I mistakenly thought , standing in as holiday cover for the appalling Nick Ferrari, would be a slightly more tolerable listen, was ludicrously describing the decision by Coutts' bank not to have the nicotine-stained man-frog's custom as "terrifying". What utter crap. Coutts' Bank is a private bank. Its whole brand is based on its exclusivity. If it wants not to touch racist shit-stirring cunts like Farage with a bargepole, it is perfectly entitled to do so, and is breaking no laws.

As I think Armsteen reminded us, remember the attempt by "assassins" , Nigel claims, to bump him off by loosening the wheelnuts on his Volvo? Same shit, different day. Pity those "assassins" didn't do a better job of fixing his fucking plane crash.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Which is all correct. I think it's hilarious.

The fact is though that the BBC fell for what looks like a false briefing from somebody, and that's going to make them look bad. Unless he did actually fail to get enough money into the account as well- do we know if he did?

[Youngian]

ludicrously describing the decision by Coutts' bank not to have the nicotine-stained man-frog's custom as "terrifying". What utter crap. Coutts' Bank is a private bank. Its whole brand is based on its exclusivity. If it wants not to touch racist shit-stirring cunts like Farage with a bargepole

I saw Coutts as the sort of bank someone like Farage would go to and so did he. Why would someone with a spare £3m to tuck away be bothered about a free market headbanger being a fellow customer?

[Yug]

And as Coutts include the king and several members of the royal fambly (gawd bless 'em) among their customers they might well want to weed out a few undesirables now and then to ensure they retain the more prestigious accounts.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

At PMQs today Ricki seemed to be indicating that Coutts could be forced to take Fargle back. Government interference in a private business, eh?

Don't hold your breath.

[Bones McCoy]

At PMQs today Ricki seemed to be indicating that Coutts could be forced to take Fargle back. Government interference in a private business, eh?

Don't hold your breath.

If the PM spend half the energy on childhood poverty as he did protecting grifters, signing off Covid fraud and spreading rumours about cat-girls...