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

There's not much evidence of people being targeted for having the 'wrong' political view - half of the English political establishment and media are right wing and reactionary, with all sorts of controversial opinions (it's a very right wing country in many respects).

While I am of the opinion Farage is an odious character and I don't agree with any of his political views, It has subsequently turned out that he was denied access to his accounts partly because of his political views, and this was one of the key reasons why his bank account was closed.

Coutts, apologised to the politician for “deeply inappropriate comments” made about him in official papers, saying they were “commissioning a full review of the Coutts processes” on bank account closures”.

Meanwhile, the UK Treasury said it was tightening the rules for UK banks over closing customers’ accounts, under changes designed to protect freedom of expression.

I said previously in this thread that there needs to be legislation and a review of the current bank rules in Ireland to stop this happening here too. I still hold these views. And I don't see why people have being turning stroppy about that in this thread. Accusing people of being right wing Farage lovers JUST FOR EXPRESSING THAT VIEW. You know who you are.

I have never seen such illogical and unwarranted vitriol in a Boards thread before. And by someone who should know better. (Not talking about you Strazdas, but some other poster earlier on in the thread)

what about them.

corbyn wasn't a jew bater either by the way.

everyone you mention is anything from no risk to not high risk unlike farage.

If you money launder, you are a criminal or are involved in hate crime, the banks/Government should have a right to freeze/stop your account. I have no problem with that.

But people should have freedom of expression as a basic right in Ireland, and no bank should have the power to shut down your account because they don't agree with what you say politically if what you have said is within the law.

He's referred to corbyn as a "jew baiter" at least three times, completely unprompted, in a thread about Nigel Farage. Noone knows what a "jew baiter" is, let alone why corbyn is one or why it's related to Nigel Farage. Talk about obsessed.

Why have both the BBC and Nat West issued a grovelling apology then?

"Furthermore, the BBC admitted that part of its reporting was inaccurate in light of the new evidence, in a post on its webpage dedicated to corrections and clarifications.

It said: “We acknowledge that the information we reported – that Coutts’ decision on Mr Farage’s account did not involve considerations about his political views – turned out not to be accurate.”

It comes a day after the boss of NatWest Group, which owns Coutts, apologised to the politician for “deeply inappropriate comments” made about him in official papers, saying she was “commissioning a full review of the Coutts processes” on bank account closures”."