“Prejudiced and nasty” Nigel Farage…

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… doesn’t understand irony.

Because their share price would be fucked if they said ‘we don’t trust her any more but need some time to find a better replacement’.

OF COURSE!!! Thank you. Mumsnet is brilliant, I have learnt so much on this thread.

Just left wondering now where all the earlier posters on this thread are? The ones who were telling us it was all cut and dried, and did we not understand? 😂

Dame Alison Rose has resigned.

Timings:
17.42 yesterday, Board has ‘full confidence’
01.45 this morning, gone

So should the taxpayer have full confidence in the board?

I think we are living through the surreal and hopefully short lived phase where Jeremy Hunt is our, the public’s, self-anointed spokesman.

Awaiting breakfast briefings …

I'm guessing she was under a lot of internal pressure, as well as from the govt.

NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose resigns overnight after Nigel Farage banking row - live updates - BBC News

Well he's literally in charge of the UK's banking sector, nothing "self-anointed" about it!

So it turns out quite a lot of the stuff written on this thread based on what the BBC and NatWest/Coutts public said was complete rubbish.

Anyone who questioned the official narrative was "mad", but.....the official narrative was wrong!

It sounds familiar doesn’t it. Official narrative turning out to be lies.

Well that was quick from full confidence to a resignation with immediate effect. I did wonder if Alison Rose would resign, the pressure for her to do so or for the Board to dismiss her was not going let up and rightly so.

How is the board allowed to stay in place? Especially the chairman. He has one job. Governance. And he failed spectacularly.

Coutts board have some explaining to do, as well, after Rose's statement

Why do the BBC get to wash their hands off it. They published someone private financial financials, falsely at that. What about journalistic responsibility. They have just pointed the finger at Rose and managed to walk away like they had no part in the false reporting.

Two publicly funded and owned organizations taking the public for mugs, lying, conspiring and censoring people for their political views. You could not make this shit up. If you’re stupid enough to believe the official narrative on anything after this and other examples in the last few years, there is no hope for you.

I find it hilarious that a BANK dare make a moral judgement on anyone!

I don’t think the BBC is the main problem here. They publish stories from reliable sources and retract and apologise if they turn out to be wrong. No doubt they should have spoken to farage but this is pretty minor in the scheme of things.
I am truly shocked by NatWest and Rose. I think the decision to issue a statement supportive of her was a grave error. The group must surely have seen that this was coming and put in place an interim plan for leadership (they must have had one anyway - that’s just normal succession planning). Their judgement is appalling. I hate to say it, but it is evidence of the arrogance of our new elites. Just like the old ones - we can crush the little people as we see fit and pay no price.

Quite.

Alison Rose had to go and some others on the Board do too, these are not wet behind the ears lowly employees they are people in high positions with plenty of time served in Banking and they damn well know you should never discuss any of your clients with people outside of the Bank ever.

I imagine the BBC journalist and Alison Rose had quite the chuckle about de-banking Farage, well the joke is on them now.

Banks - do your job of banking and do it properly don't fuck up so you have to be bailed out by the tax payer, treat your employees and customers well and fairly, the end. If you were half as competent as you claim to be you wouldn't need to pay expensive EDI personnel or lobby groups to tell you how to do that especially when said personnel and lobby groups misrepresent Equality Law.

I imagine the BBC journalist and Alison Rose had quite the chuckle about de-banking Farage, well the joke is on them now.

Ye they had a laugh I’m sure, feeling superior and untouchable. So glad they’ve found out otherwise.

Agreed. Smug, is what they were.

Just listening to R4, and it turns out the NatWest board met again last night. And after that, she resigned. So clearly a lot of pressure from within. But now the focus is on the Board... and Coutts...

Have you actually read the thread? The so-called progressives don't like Farage, but are pretty unanimous in saying the bank got this badly wrong. The only people looking foolish are those wittering on about wokeness.

There were a few still defending the bank. Well maybe not now, finally, as Rose has gone.

She should never have been discussing one of her customers, regardless of whether it was Nigel Farage or me. What happened to confidentiality? Good riddance.

It was politically based

They wouldn’t have done to it to a ‘nice’ person like them

As far as I am concerned Nigel Farage is the one who told everyone about his financial affairs - and yet again a woman takes the fall.

I have lost respect for NatWest for giving in to this disgusting grifter.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that not so long ago Nigel Farage was doing videos for money - remember the "up the RA" video? Where the hell did he get the money to repay a mortgage in full - do those videos pay that much? That is the question everyone should be asking.

ALL banks would be wary of somebody in that situation.

The gobshite has got what he wants - more oxygen for his narcissistic needs - while the planet burns and the rest of the country suffers in a cost of living crisis.

The cherry on this disgusting cake would be for him to get his Coutts account back - hopefully everyone else would then leave Coutts - and cite Nigel Farage as the reason