Loading ...Coutts chief steps down over Nigel Farage de-banking scandal Lender’s treatment of Farage has ‘fallen below high standards of personal service’
The banksters are falling …and they can’t get up
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My war on woke banks is about to rapidly expand
I am now seriously motivated by this. The desperation of the many people who have been wronged means that I simply have to do something….Nigel Farage
I hope that this week marks a turning point. The City Minister, Andrew Griffith, has read the riot act to the 19 bank bosses who were summoned to the Treasury for a meeting. This is a good start. People’s lawfully held political and personal opinions should have nothing to do with their right to a bank account. Banks should not be and must never become political organisations. Any bank that treats a single customer in the way that Coutts acted towards me must have its licence revoked.
This point also marks the start of a much bigger campaign for me. As I have said before, the only reason I decided to go public – and ultimately cause myself quite a fair degree of embarrassment – is that I realised over the last couple of years that many people had wrongly had their bank account closed. Since I told my own story this month, I have been inundated with tales from others in genuine distress who have also suffered the indignity of being “de-banked”. I have encouraged all of them to make a Subject Access Request to establish why this happened.
Sadly, a bank account being closed at short notice has made it almost impossible for many people to get a new account opened in time. Some people have been ruined as a result. This is especially true of small business owners who take cash payments, whether they run a local window cleaning firm or a pawn broker. Not having a bank account in the 21st century makes it almost impossible to function. Any bank employee who has allowed such a state of affairs to exist should have this on their conscience.