The only apology I saw was for the use of some terminology in their internal documents. The government now proposes stricter requirements on how such matters are communicated, with a right for anyone impacted to be able to challenge and request a review.

None of which, so far as I can see, changes the fundamental right of a bank to decide their own rules on the size of deposits or how they determine who are their target customers and who aren’t.

This wasn’t clever PR by the bank and doubtless there has been some red faces internally but their right to do it remains intact.

Whether it actually benefits Farage is another question. It is red meat to those who think like him, but to everyone else it only goes to confirm what they think of him. That he is an insufferable prick. I doubt whether he will have gained any support as a result of this publicity stunt.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Seems the bbc have done it again, 'errors in reporting' . . . [Link]

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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This from someone who said that the company involved in the 'gay cake' case were obliged to take homosexual rights activist, Gareth Lee, as a customer. Your double standards are of course not unexpected.

Edited by georgenorman (21 Jul 2023 2.25pm)

Because it's Farage if it was a Trans person they would be demonstrating outside of the bank.

Double standards and hypocrisy all round.

This does matter as we are moving to a cashless society people will need a bank account same as they need electricity.

One more point

The bank can accept or decline who they want. They would also have a policy relating to Reputational Risk, whereby a client could affect their relationship with other customers. My bank once declined the financing of a printing press because of the contracts the company had to print soft core p*** mags (top shelf stuff). Bizarrely the local government was happy to give them a grant. Where the Farage episode breaks down is that he was already a customer and other customers in a similar position were not contacted to say that their accounts were closing for the same reason.

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

eh, only if you allow it . And if you vote for Leaders who also allow it.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....