I'm not one to defend Farage but the amount of money he had in the bank was at the same level it had been for years. His account was closed for being a "politically exposed person" (PEP).
And presumably this is what has happened in this case, and the ones mentioned up thread.
We need to find out how Banks are assessing people to be PEPs and also, on the basis that we have the right to free speech in the UK, they can use their commercial monopoly to say who can or cant operate in the UK.
If someone who is an Equalities and Women's Rights commissioner is a PEP where does that leave us.
And although some of us might get a laugh out of Farage when it means small groups or lone individuals could be ostricised from financial services, this is an encroachment on our private lives.
And if, as some of us might suspect, it is because some lone Stonewall trained employee is dobbing people in, the Banks need to be exposed for failing to behave in a professional manner, and allowing politics to take precedence over what are the stated aims of the company. I bet nowhere in the rules and regulations does it talk about the right not to have customers whose politics they dont like.
And how many of these banks are cashing in on Russian oligarch money, or Gulf oil money.
The worry is that if they have share holders it may well be the case that these shareholders may also have been Stonewalled and think the actions of the bank are totally justified.