As we know by now (see previous installment if you haven't already), the Brexit guy, Nigel Farage has been kicking up a fuss about having his Coutts business account closed due to his political wrong-think, mainly being a racist and xenophobe according to internal documents (Coutts lied about the commercial viability of course). But since we last posted about this, the story has evolved again: Alison Rose, the CEO of Natwest (which owns the Coutts bank) has stepped down (supposedly by force from the Treasury) after disclosing private information to the BBC about Farage.
Boss number 1 (defeated):
Another small victory as a result of this chaos is that banks will now need to give customers 90 days notice and the reason for the account closure. Based Jacob Rees-Mogg has also brought up the issue in parliament (video) and Farage is even getting support from the Left media as can be seen by the Guardian.
The battle is far from over however.
According to Farage, up to 1000 bank accounts are being closed every day by bong banks (a typical publicized case here). They are even using an international agency called Refinitiv (see 6:40), which they use to snoop in on customer's social media accounts to advise banks of our credit worthiness. Suffice to say, Nigel wants more vengeance, including litigation letters involving compensation and face to face meetings with the BBB (bank bong bosses) as well as more legislation in general to prevent banks from cancelling bongs. Listening to him below, he has the kind of tenacity we usually see from the likes of Null or Bardy perhaps, or maybe like a pitbull that doesn't release its grip........., but the good kind of pitbull. <cue Marsey pitbull emoji> 
Nigel mini speech here: https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1686078436778115072
Nigel is now after Boss number 2, otherwise known as Coutts' CEO or Peter Flavel:
This is the guy who was apparently ultimately responsible for Nigel's account being closed, though there's someone else too - Camilla Stowell, the head of private clients - a (surprise) hardcore Remainer 
who "has judged a diversity essay prize" 
I present - Boss number 3:
She has been Farage's point of contact throughout this whole ordeal, and Nigel described his conversations with her (xer?) as “very condescending”.
So, other than the bosses, Farage has also put a site together called accountclosed.org which enables the victims of bank closures to submit "subject access requests", in an effort to gather data on the nature of the account closures, ultimately with the goal of taking this info to parliament and act upon it further. Some politicians are already drafting bills to enshrine the right to a bank account into law. People can also contact the Financial Ombudsman Service which have the power to force banks to reopen the customer's account.
To end with, I'll post this video clip from Ricky Gervais. I wonder if you'll be able to remember it. Something about old fashioned women (with wombs). It was apparently a factor in Farage's original account closure and Farage was labelled transphobic by Coutts for retweeting it (Ricky sketch starts 15 seconds in):
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Maybe don't get in bed with Russia like Ghislaine Maxwell's dad and these things won't happen to you?
I always find it amusing when the British act shocked that somebody's civil rights could be violated, like this has never happened. In my own living memory the army couldn't move around South Armagh except in helicopters. Guys were out ambushing each other at night within the UK but some f-slur gets his bank account cancelled and this is a crisis where we've got to call in Doyle and Bodie from CI-5 now.
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Farage claimed that he made no financial transactions with Russia, at least not big ones, but I don't think small either.
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