“Prejudiced and nasty” Nigel Farage…

[MangetoutsaysGetOutMan]

… doesn’t understand irony.

Ah. Well. Alison Rose, head of Coutts bank, is now apologising to Nigel Farage. No doubt hoping to head off a court case.

So, for all you Coutts apologists, what do you think of this?

Nigel Farage receives apology from Coutts after bank account row | UK News | Sky News

Correction, she's CEO of Natwest Group, who own Coutts. It was she who briefed the BBC previously.

"Now, after weeks of the row playing out in public, the chief executive of the Natwest Group, Alison Rose, has apologised for "deeply inappropriate comments" made about him in documents prepared for the company's wealth committee"

You know, it's a funny thing. For years bankers have been hated and despised. But now we're happy for them to be moral arbiters?!

The BBC News site now features the apology from Alison Rose.

Currently top story on the UK page.

I bet stuck in a few craws

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66258137

Haha I bet

Yeah made me laugh too.

Bankers are given privileged access to the money supply. They can literally make money off that privilege. Not off their own ideas or hard work, but off the fact they are given a banking licence.

So why does the government give them licences ? Because it needs organisations to handle the distribution and channeling of money through society.

IMO when bankers who have that power, are given that privilege start engaging in politics as well, it's time to start asking some serious questions.

Oh look all the wokesters have disappeared from the thread now that the CEO has apologised to Farage. Not defending the bank now. I wonder why.

Nigel Farage has built his whole persona on the notion of taking on the establishment. Once again, they gave him a reason to take them on, and once again he won.

Gun, foot, clean shot.

These wokesters never learn.

Off topic and flame me for this, but is that letter full of bad grammar?

In 2008 they would pretend that they we're not bankers.

Slight tangent but what exactly is the implied message to the broader NatWest customer base here?

"We think Farage is a dodgy and reprehensible individual so he can't possibly have a Coutts account. Oh but it's ok to dump him with a NatWest account with the peasants. It doesn't matter if someone we think is dodgy and reprehensible has a NatWest account."

Not great nor well thought through optics surely.

I know, those Bankers who crashed the economy in 2008 receive obscene, eye watering salaries and bonuses, long viewed with disgust and deemed utterly reprehensible, greedy fat cats - those Bankers are now morally pure and to revered?

Slight tangent but what exactly is the implied message to the broader NatWest customer base here?

Good point. I wonder if we’ll ever find out why he’s been offered a NatWest account but is still boycotted by Coutts.

These bankers?

Man wants posh account with posh (exclusive) bank and then complains they said he's not their sort so can't have the account.

Oh, and he's a "man of the people" alright.

Couldn't make it up.

Couldn't make it up.

And yet people are…

Mn no dice yet everyone else realises and Coutts apologise

lljkk · Today 19:05
Man wants posh account with posh (exclusive) bank and then complains they said he's not their sort so can't have the account.

If he wasn’t their sort then why did they allow him the account in the first place?

Indeed. Why did they allow him an account - for forty years?

Banks are literally a law unto themselves. They set up the credit rating system between them - it has nothing to do with government. And yet it governs us all.

A lot of cognitive dissonance going on right now.

And it proves once again can’t beat an attention grabbing headline then people don’t read the facts and he knows this.

You’re really not keeping up with what’s going on

Would you like to explain, then, whey the CEO of a huge, partly publicly-owned bank, has just apologised to him then?

Andrew Neil tweeting, once again - it's going to get messy

Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and instructions on how to lodge Subject Access Requests with the bank demanding any dossiers on them. As I wrote this morning, Nat West/Coutts now entering a world of pain