Nigel Farage cries persecution, nobody wants to be his banker after ties to Russia

I find that this degree of defending Farage to be equal parts depressing and facinating at the same time. Depressing in the sense that I feel that this is a person who upon encountering a supporter on fire, probably wouldn't even piss on them to extinquish the flames. Yet, just like Trump supporters in the US, these people must double down in defending their chosen idol, and they cannot be wrong. It is not an option to be wrong, ever. It must be an exhausting existence to have to fight against the waves of reality so much like that.

I'm tempted to bandy this mindset together with "Flat Earth" sycophants. It's an extreme example, but these are people who have to put *so much* of themselves into backing up a nonsense lie about our world that they have little choice than to circle the wagons around the few of them that will support an indefensable position and then try their best to loudly declare their brilliance while condemning the rest of the world as fools. All while the rest of the world adopts what is reality. The world is round, the sky is blue, and Nigel Farage is a has-been who has lost a chunk of his wealth.

Cootes offered him a normal NatWest account. I'm guessing they felt that Farage simply wasn't bringing in enough cash to make having him on the books worth their while. NatWest are much larger operation, and likely better staffed to handle the PEP stuff if that was the issue. But Farage is special, he wanted to be in the special bank for important people like him...but they said (in a snooty accent) "No, sorry Nigel my old man...you see my boy, you are what myself and my fellow peers would describe as a loser and that's simply not the "look" we want here at Cootes. No. So kindly bugger off my good fellow to this NatWest branch, better suited to your....eh-hem....station. "

Of course now you've a Farage who can't be seen whipping out a regular old NatWest card when paying for stuff, so he goes hunting for another fancy "boutique" bank logo to have on his credit card. Alas for him, I guess they all had a similar minset to Cootes, after which the dimwit decided to make this a "Culture War" battleground. Brilliant fodder for GB News and his supporters for sure, but what he's done now is make it even harder for these other fancy banks to take him on. Banks that turn him down are "woke" now, meaning that a bank that does take him on might have to deal with the impression that they are the "non-Woke" bank, which just introduces potential a tonne of possible headaches. Far, far easier to just not take him on.

So now we have a political commentator and wannabe politician who's income is dependant on the patience of GB News' investors (thus not guarenteed forever) who can't stomach the idea of banking in the same manner that 99.99% of the rest of us do, and has managed to whip up the concept that the banks, one of the most conservative type of institutes about, are now "woke".

The word "woke" had long become a nonsense catch-all to complain about things, but part of me starts to wonder if Farage will declare anything he doesn't like as woke? Will he have a disappointing sandwich next week and call that woke? Will his car break down because the gearbox was too woke? Had to throw out the milk in the fridge the other day...smelled a bit woke. It would be funnier if this mindset hadn't crashed the UK out of the worlds largest trading block for at least a generation and screw over a load of British youth in the process.