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Nigel Farage Demands Bank Staff Are Suspended After Document Reveals Them Boasting About “Driving Him Out of the Country”

by Will Jones
24 October 2023 11:08 AM

Bosses at NatWest were last night facing calls from Nigel Farage to suspend staff who joked about wanting to “throw a milkshake” at him after a bombshell document revealed how staff privately boasted about having potentially “driven him out of the country”. The Mail has the story.

Another message said they would “pay” to be the person who told him he was not welcome to use the firm.

The internal conversations come after the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader was dropped in June by Coutts, a private bank owned by NatWest, over his views.

They were reported by GB News last night after Mr. Farage, a presenter on the channel, submitted a subject access request to NatWest for all the information the bank holds on him.

In one conversation, according to GB News, a bank staffer said: “I’d throw a milkshake at him if I was approached to open an account for him.”

Another referred to a BBC article about Mr. Farage having his bank account closed and said: “Hope that knocked him down a peg or two.” Another, which appears to be part of a WhatsApp group, said: “Have you all seen Nigel Farage’s Twitter? No one will bank him now. Have we single handedly drive NF out of the country?!”

And one staff member suggested Mr. Farage had “dodgy Russian connections”, which he has vehemently denied. He was also described as “sketchy” and workers referred to him as a “crackpot” and an “awful human being”. Mr. Farage claims he was turned down by ten other banks for an account amid the scandal.

Mr. Farage lost his account at Coutts, whose clients include members of the Royal Family, after an internal report said his views did not align with the bank’s values and he was “transphobic”.

The row led to the resignation of NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose after she falsely told a journalist Mr. Farage’s views had not been a factor in the loss of his account. This week the board of the bank, which is 38.6% owned by the taxpayer, will meet to discuss her exit package. But last night Mr. Farage told the Mail that it was the “woke” culture under Dame Alison’s leadership which contributed to the “vile” comments by staff.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Cancel CultureCensorshipCouttsDebankingLiberal BiasNatWestNigel Farage

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jeepybee
jeepybee
1 year ago

How does one go about starting a bank?

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Tell the regulators it will focus on lending to the unbankable and especially on non-white applicants.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Check out ‘Bank of Dave’, its the story of Dave Fishwick, a self-made millionaire from Burnley who applied for the first banking license to be issued in over 100 years in order to be able to lend to small businesses in the area. Great story of a minnow taking on the sharks.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

Sorry 10, i was too busy helping jeepybee to read down and see yours.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

Watch the film “Bank of Dave”. It is a real life story of how why and how it was done and a pretty inspiring watch.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
1 year ago
Reply to  jeepybee

An alternative would be to allow individuals to have accounts directly with the Bank of England. Make it a constitutional right subject only to having a British passport. That would still leave Farage and others in his situation without a wider array of banking services like mortgages and so on, but at least he would be able to make and receive payments. No need for a CBDC.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Add banker to the list of “professions” where people join not to execute their “profession” to the best of their ability but to make the world a better place. Frustrated politicians and social justice warriors. The world is now overflowing with “do gooders” (doing good mainly involves screwing other people’s lives up).

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

There is a Nat West board meeting later this week at which Alison Rose’s £11 million pounds exit package will be discussed rubber-stamped.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed. She presided over a culture and set of policies in which a rich man who has never as far as I know been arrested or charged with any crime was refused service for political reasons – a man who in every way seems like an ideal Coutts customer. I wouldn’t employ that woman in any capacity whatsoever.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

She will probably rock up at some globalist NGO by way of reward. Or if they really want to rub our noses in it Fishy will find her a well remunerated non job.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

“Fishy will find her a well remunerated non job”

Chancellor of the Exchequer?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

😀😀😀

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Probably …. but Nigel’s doing to drip-feed details from the Subject Access Request so tonight’s update will be interesting.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Let’s hope some of the board are upright people, and vote against any exit package at all.

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Arborvitae23
Arborvitae23
1 year ago

I hope Nigel can get support to go after each of those individuals. I also hope they are not sleeping too well and are looking at their lives and wondering if they will be able to pay their bills and mortgages etc.
About time these people were brought up short to face the real world that actions have consequences.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

Have they given up employing grown-ups in banking?

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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

It would appear so.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

The problem for me today is that grown-ups could have been born during the Bliar regime. Internet babies. Far too woke and they have never known anything else.

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SimCS
SimCS
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

They’ve also given up caring for people. I read recently of a man who found a lost wallet with a bank card, library card and cash. He contacted the bank to ask them to contact the account owner (he *didn’t* ask for any details, to adhere to GDPR) to enable him to get the wallet back to the owner (who turned out to be an autistic child). The bank refused. He then contacted the library, and within 5 mins, the owner was identified and the library had initiated the process for the wallet’s return by contacting the autistic child’s mother. The mother was very grateful.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Farage will have to live with the fact that he’s highly unpopular among many people for as long as he has nothing else to accuse them off. That’s also free speech.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

It makes no difference whether someone is popular or not, if comments like this are made as part of a professional relationship then free or not this is speech that affects regulated services. It should not happen irrespective of an employee’s opinion of a customer.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

There’s no professional relationship involved here, just bank employees talking informally to other bank employees who were accidentally subject to automatic surveillance nobody had cared for so far.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

You sound vaccinated to me 😁

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Deborah T
Deborah T
1 year ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

You must be new here.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago
Reply to  Deborah T

Not you as well?🤔💉😁

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

That’s a vaccine side-effect. Sue you the postman!

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

So people who are “unpopular” with the Woke deserve to have their bank accounts cancelled; be slandered by their staff and, if possible, forced out of the country?

How very inclusive of the arrogant pygmies who infest the Establishment.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

No, people who are “unpopular” with the Woke deserve to be trampled into the ground by white elephants specially trained for this purpose. That didn’t happen here, either, and I also didn’t write anything about it, but why stop a context-free flight of fancy prematurely?

This is about bank employees privately talking to other bank employees whose conversations happened to be recorded by their employer. Nothing else. That Farage is pissed-off that they don’t seem to like him is understandable. But his calls for them to be cancelled because of this aren’t materially different from calls of the Woke for the same. It’s free speech when I do it! And when you dare to do it, well, that’s obviously an entirely different situation! That’s called hypocrisy and once again demonstrates that woke and anti-woke are really the exact same kind of people: Opportunists seeking to come out on top of it with whatever means they believe to have at their disposal. And whiners about violated first principles whenever that didn’t work out as intended.

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
1 year ago

‘Humanely disappeared’.

Unlike those considered politically undesirable in Chile and Argentina under their military regimes.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

I hope he sues the B’Jesus out of Nat West.

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