Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over leaked information

Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by mellosouls on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:56AM (#36875587)

Background for non-UK readers:

Nigel Farage - the main mover behind Brexit - had his account closed due to his political opinions (he is also a renta-gob anti-woke columnist).

The bank tried to cover that up, and the Chair leaked his account details while talking to a journalist.

The Chair has now resigned and Farage is after more blood.

Don't be in any doubt though - the Beeb etc are trying to sell this story as being about the leak; but its about cancel culture and the rising mainstream awareness of it - Farage is a big name in the UK, and the attempt to shut his finances down for having the wrong opinions has hugely backfired here.

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by ggm on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:03AM (#36875659)

All they had to do was get ahead of the process and be transparent. He'd still be ranting but less people would care.

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by mellosouls on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:23AM (#36875868)

Yeah they've screwed up on multiple levels here.

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by JazzyEssy on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:25AM (#36877283)

Keen to see how this progress. I thought their NDA was in order

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by Arnt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:36AM (#36876620)

"According to their website, Coutts requires clients to have at least £1 million in investments or borrowing, including a mortgage, or at least £3 million in savings." To me it sounds as if he's no longer a millionaire, and that his political opinions are merely the reason that Coutts won't overlook their rules.

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by mellosouls on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:32AM (#36877397)

Seems very unlikely he's not a millionaire, and even if your thesis is accurate it's still his political opinions deciding the account-closing.

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Re:Farage calls for the entire NatWest board to resign over ... by Arnt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:49PM (#36880782)

If his political opinions mean that he the rules apply as written, that's sort of okay. If his political opinions were to grant him an exception, that'd be worse IMO.

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