You must be one of the small hard left core of people mentioned on Tv this morning who hate NF, hate Brexit and will never get over the fact that they were outvoted. 
Itās said that they are terrified of NF now because even people who didnāt support him before, do now because of how he has stood up to the Banks. Banks should not be treating people like this and they should not be divulging confidential information.
Some would say thatās a good thing! 
Compliance law is crippling banks.
Whether you agree or disagree about Nigel Farage, I always feel itās good to have a few mavericks about the place. You get so fed up of boring fence sitting politicians, frightened to say anything remotely controversial, in case it upsets the chattering classes. I think of Nigel as a bloody good stand up comedian, heaps better than all them so called funny men on the telly! 
Absorbing notion John, him and Jim Davidson a real hoot.
Bravo Rose, good postā¦
Actually thatās very true.
Iām very proud to be one of those people and Iād be totally ashamed of myself if I were anything else!
I despise and loathe Brexit, the Brexiteers and those who voted for it and will do everything I can do get us back in and end the shame it brought to our country. And I wonāt go along with or co-operate with them or with Brexit to enable it
Of course I hate Farage, who wouldnāt?
Heās a self-serving snake oil salesman who disgraced himself in the European Parliament with his showing off and trousering money he didnāt earn. Heās done our country great harm and deserves to be vilified for his opinions and for what he is
Remember, we werenāt outvoted on Brexit by very many, the polls show most people realise it was a mistake and were deceived by Farage and his ilk
Thatās 16,141,241 people bullied into a disastrous future we didnāt want by the Brexiters, the old people forcing it on the young, weāre not likely to forget, are we?
The ghastly Farage has only stood up to the banks out of self interest and for publicity, he has no principles and has never shown a interest in the unbanked, especially homeless and poor people, until it happened to him
Heās just using his notoriety to get revenge because heās affronted they donāt want him
And what organisation would want him, giving his beliefs, lack of principles and the way he behaves?
Iām glad the Coutts report spelled out to him exactly what decent people think of him
Banks shouldnāt reveal confidential information but itās yet to be proved that they did, in this case. Money grabber Farage would definitely be trying to sue if he had evidence
And I think businesses have a right to choose who they want for customers
There are people I wouldnāt provide a service for because of their beliefs, opinions and way they behave
I think of him as a git and the harm heās done to all our lives not funny at all 
I suppose because I voted to leave the EU, Iām like that kids movie, Despicable Me !! 
Whether you like it or not, you can dress it up any way you like but you still lost the vote! You say āit wasnāt by very manyā that is completely irrelevant, you still lost.
NF did not know that you could be debanked until it happened to him and when it did and people started contacting him to say it also happened to them (including a Vicar, a Womens charity and the Downās syndrome granddaughter of Nigel Lawson) he went public because he, of all people, had the voice to do so. I realise you want to believe otherwise And that he is doing it purely for himself but you are very wrong because there is now a FB site with thousands of people who it has also happened to and they are grateful that NF is keeping this in the headlines.
The Coutts report did not spell out what ādecentā people think of him, they LIED! Whenever I have seen him on TV he is polite, respectful and listens to his guests whether they are politicians, celebs, self made businesspeople or just ordinary members of the public.
You might think differently if your bank account was suddenly closed and you donāt understand why.
Indeed you are
Tens of thousands of Brits living in Europe experienced this - directly because of Farage. There is no way Farage was unaware of this issue. What Farage is doing is keeping Farage in the headlines. It is very naĆÆve to think anything else. He has been searching for an issue to hang his hat onto for years now - any issue will do because its the publicity not the issue that matters to Farage.
There werenāt that many because most smart people opened accounts in countries they chose to live in rather than the UK.
Anyway, banks have been doing this for years. My BIL went to live in Germany and his account was closed, likewise a friend who moved to Spain so itās not because of Brexit.
I donāt think they did lie, I think they described him very accurately, and more power to their elbow, more people should call him what he is to his face
His āpolitenessā didnāt extend to his behaviour in the European Parliament, did it?
Heās a sexist, racist, misogynist homophobe, and thatās not very polite or respectful of him, is it?
Heās a snake oil salesman who turns on the smarm to fool the stupid
I donāt deny thousands of people have been debanked
And thousands more of the socially excluded never had the opportunity of a bank account
( but those are poor people so obviously Farage isnāt going to care about them)
But I donāt believe for one microsecond that Farage cares about them
Heās just using that cause and the individuals for revenge and for notoriety to feather his own pocket and career, exactly the way he used Brexit and the Brexiteers
If my bank account, I promise you Farage wouldnāt give a toss, and he doesnāt about anyone elseās either
Heās a cheap populist who runs with any cause to further his own ends
Bad cess on himšæ
@Maree. Seen the breaking news?
Alison Rose, CEO of Coutts has admitted she WAS the source of the lies against Nigel Farage and has written to apologise to him for disclosing his personal info.
Apparently the Bank still have confidence in her!!! 
Ooh, thank you, I expect the money grabbing little toad will sue now, if he thinks heāll win
Iām glad the bank still have confidence in her 
I wonder if she did it off her own bat or if it was a plan within Coutts to try to stop Farageās whinging?
If that was the case itās quite right they should back her and not throw her under the bus
I have even more confidence in the people who wrote the report that got him chucked out, they are clearly very good judges of character
I donāt think the comments Coutts recorded about Farage were lies - they recorded what many people really think of Farage.
It is ironic that after the PEPs legislation came into effect, it was Coutts who were reluctant to start tracking and analysing their clients as closely as the Government wanted, so they got fined for not doing that.
Fast forward a couple of years, and after being forced to comply with the rules, Coutts were completing their PEPs analyses - and now they are being slated by the Government for carrying out the analyses the Government legislation requested!
Where should the line be drawn?
It also tickles me to think that Farage, after decades of criticising Laws designed to protect people as āthe Nanny Stateā and banging the drum of free enterprise, is now expecting the Government to intervene to protect him from the cut and thrust of the private enterprise of the nasty Private Wealth Sector of Banking! ā¦ and even more amusing that the legislation that will protect him was originally created by the EU - if U.K. had never been a part of the EU, he may not have been legally protected now!
I do think Coutts were wrong to act as they did, though - they may have got away with it if they had been more circumspect about it.
I think it was very foolish to record those opinions in his official Bank Record - I canāt really believe they wrote those things down and can only think that this extra analysis came about because of the Government Laws regarding PEPs.
When I was in Banking, both in the Wealth Sector or in the ordinary Personal Sector and even in the Commercial Sector, we had to make sure we kept all our records to strictly relevant factual records and remember that whatever we wrote may have to be justified if the Client requested their personal data, under Data Protection Laws - our information records were regularly sampled by our bank inspectors and if we had included opinions like āmany people think he is a ādisingenuous grifterā , we would have been in serious trouble - however well deserved the comment was!
I used to privately think a lot of things about some of our clients but would not have committed those thoughts to paper or electronic files!
But that is not what you want from a bank !
You wasnāt confidentiality and discretion.
Someone leaked his financial details to the BBC .
Would you like your financial details leaked to all and sundry ?
Wrong, David Cameron lost the referendum for a whole host of reasons, he thought he would win the vote. He underestimated the extent to which the Leave campaign would prove able to encourage its supporters to turn out and vote, even people who didnāt normally bother.
It wouldnāt bother me, Iāve got nothing to hide
And they didnāt really leak full details of his accounts
