Questions surface about whether Nigel Farage complained when UK banks shut British expats’ accounts
Questions surface about whether Nigel Farage complained when UK banks shut British expats’ accounts
‘His Brexit is responsible for thousands of British citizens living abroad losing their UK bank accounts. Funny old world…’
The scrote doesn't care that he has made a boat load of cash at the expense of thousands of others. He doesn't care about the thousands of businesses that have gone under because of him and his mates. But when he is hit in the pockets by having to move to a pleb account, then we get questioned in parliament and a plethora of front page headlines about how hard he is done by. When is he ever going to live up to the threats of "I am going to have to leave the UK".
I'm one of the people who was forced to close bank accounts, and yeah, it was incredibly inconvenient. I wasn't even able to resolve it overseas and had to travel to the UK to resolve it, being left unable to access my funds for months.
I also think Farage is a self-serving dickhead who is turning the molehill of his own self-inflicted inconvenience into a mountain just to rile up his base.
Still, is it really a realistic suggestion that he should be personally championing every cause that has come about as a result of Brexit? Sure, he bears a lot of responsibility for it happening and it's fair to point out that others are suffering in similar ways due to his actions, but his core failings have nothing to do with the fact that he's not championing those people.
Those accounts were closed because of rule changes post-Brexit. They weren't closed because the people had the "incorrect" views.
His account has not been changed because of his views. It was changed because he ran out of funds due to paying off his mortgage. His account was also not closed; he was offered a different service. These people actually had their accounts closed.
Which part of being offered a standard account is difficult for you?
Which is useless if you need a business account.
If it was a business account, he would not be paying his mortgage from it.
As a btw, do you think everyone else should be offered the same account that was taken away from Farage?
God I'm tired of this whole thing. The whole bloody nations media is being pulled into what's essentially an argument between old money and new.
Old money types who's families have been with Coutts for years probably have plenty of skeletons in their closet, but they know to keep their head down and not draw attention.
Farage is new money who doesn't do that and sticks his oar into politics. They and Coutts know he's a reputational risk that may end up shining the light on them so they didn't want to be associated anymore. A
As long as he can bank somewhere, I don't give two tosses.
They cannot refuse him a banking account because of EU legislation. Natwest doesn't give a monkeys about his politics. They have people on their books in times past that are a lot worse. Pinochet being the most notable from memory. All Natwest care about is making money, and Farage obviously does not tick that box anymore.