“By addressing our history with honesty and openness we can, perhaps, demonstrate the strength of our friendship today. And, in so doing, we can, I hope, continue to build an ever-closer bond for the years ahead.”
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@TheSimonEvans Indeed. It isn't he publication to the wider public that creates a defamation claim is publication to anyone. Even internal memo's can be defamatory. As to NF exercising a basic right under data protection laws, he should be applauded.
@bbctms Why have lunch when there has been no morning play. Introduce a rulw that if no.play by 12.15 or 12.30 then lunch will be deemed taken. Give them a earlier tea and a longer evening session.
I’ve now been through the NatWest/Coutts dossier on Nigel Farage twice now.
It is clear beyond doubt that, even though they could find no real “dirt” on him, they still wanted to “debank” him because they didn’t like his politics — and came up with the ruse of using an expiring mortgage to close his account this month (July).
Farage curtailed this process by paying off the mortgage earlier than necessary, unaware of the consequences for his Coutts accounts.
On Nov 17 2022 the bank put its plan in place: “Recommendation is to retain N[igel] F[arage] for now. However, it was noted that NF currently has a mortgage with Coutts, which is due to expire in July 2023 and which, on a commercial basis, we would not look to renew and so would suggest winding down the connection on that basis.”
The Bank then says it had put great store on his Russia connections but admits it could find “nothing substantive” to pin on him.
So the bank then details the fallback plan it has hatched: “Six months before the expiry of NF’s mortgage with Coutts, they would indicate to NF that we are not renewing the mortgage [allowing the Bank to exit] NF next year on commercial grounds when the mortgage rolls off.”
The Banks then again admits the real reason: “[It] did not think continuing to bank NF was compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation.” (Coutts is actually one of the least inclusive banks in the world, as Farage was founding out)
Coutts claims “this was not a political decision but one centred around inclusivity and purpose”. Pause for laughter.
“The Chair concluded as follows [the Committee was unanimous]:
After the expiry of the mortgage with Coutts, NF would not be a criteria client and we should set a glide path to exiting NF when that mortgage expires.”
So the mortgage was the pretext. His politics were the real reason.
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