We need Farage more than ever the man partly responsible for destroying the U.K. economy ? If he was that popular how come he has failed 5 times after standing in elections to be a MP ?

GB News a far right broadcaster who might not be around much longer due to debt so don’t get too used to watching it

This going to cause a few tailbacks at the airports.
British holidaymakers will be required to register their fingerprints and pictures with the EU under new laws, which includes Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Portugal.

The European Union is planning to introduce a new automated IT system for registering all travellers from the UK and other non-EU countries every time they cross an EU external border.
Under the EU Entry/Exit System (EES), holidaymakers will be required to scan their passports and other travel documents at a self-service kiosk before crossing the border. The system will register your name, type of travel document, your fingerprints and pictures of your face, as well as the date and place of entry and exit.
The system will apply when entering 25 EU countries - including all member states except Cyprus and Ireland - and four non-EU countries that are part of the border-free Schengen area. This includes Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Lichtenstein.

Let’s just say they were the most fulfilling seven years of my life and leave it at that.

Come on, admit it you’re a plant by the EU, or an employee.
No one reacts about the EU like this to every mention of the letters EU your pour out reams of vague statistics…….. it’s looking obsessional.
I like your views on everything else though so there’s hope for you .

so how will this affect the illegals crossing the continent to get to the boats at calais. tota.lly impractable in this day and age. you would think we are the only country in europe that rely in some way on tourism in some way. could be a good idea as some brits may end up finding where torquay is on a map unlike a lot now.

I worked with a lad who liked his holidays around the world, but had never been to Scotland or Wales…. In fact his first trip to London was for one day killing time to get a flight…he was in his 30’s and after one day’s visit, he was an expert on central London….. he would happily butt into any mention of the word ‘London’ if it came up for however obscure the reason for months afterwards.

had a brother in law just like that who was an expert on any single subject you could mention including football where he had admitted earlier he had never been to a match. me and my old man could not stand him but kept quiet as much as we could because of my sister. we knicknamed him the harrods del boy.

It wasn't you that was heckling him in the background when he picked up the prestigious news presenter of the year award mr j?

The more the EU make it more expensive or harder or longer or just downright uncomfortable for Brits to holiday in their countries the less people will be inclined to go there. I noticed Ireland aren't involved. They are not as daft as they are painted the Irish.
Paris seems to be the place to go at the moment. Very warm, especially at night. Fires everywhere.
We used to visit Majorca regularly and I know for a fact that they are desperate to get us Brits to go back. They don't like the way we are being treated and the Spanish authorities are being made aware in no uncertain terms. We haven't been since 2019 and are constantly being asked when are we coming back. As things are the answer is probably never. We've had some cracking holidays in the likes of Cala D'Or. I am told by people who still go that the cost is going through the roof and people who have moved there to live are desperate to get back. Not as rosy in the old EU as some people would like us to believe. A travel agent told me that his most popular destination is Mexico. I might do a tour of Ireland next year. It's a while since I've been. The rest of the EU can get frumped.

There are so many airports in the EU that this is an enormous undertaking. It's supposed to come in from the beginning of next year but in 2022 that was being said about this year. Brit indignation is a bit comical given it was us who decided to leave the EU in the first place - and even when we left we could have opted for a Norway-type deal.

It's a security measure but also designed to speed things up - I had to get fingerprinted arriving in Beijing in about 2018 - bit weird but it's something you only have to do once. Passport scanners with facial recognition facilities have been around even longer - including airports like Heathrow. They do cause extra queues though - whenever they're out of order!

Arriving and leaving in Thailand at immigration it’s photograph and finger prints, your accommodation is supposed to inform immigration you are staying there as well.

World wide travel is going through the roof, are airlines trying to retrieve the money they lost through Covid, maybe after a few months when the planes are flying empty they might reduce prices ?

Just going back on Nigel Farage and his closed bank accounts, say he has £1 million across several accounts, what is the bank going to do? Write him out a cheque which he cannot use or call him into the bank and hand over £1 million in bank notes?

There'll be one or two "interested" parties if he is seen walking out of a bank with a suspicious looking bag.

"Far right" my arse.

Another phrase that the meaning of has been twisted beyond recognition, and is now used simply to stifle debate.

Guess I best polish me jackboots and invade Poland...!

GB News far right….. Behave, never saw Anne Diamond and Eamon Holmes as disciples of Goebbels.

Eamon is more the Benito Mussolini type - at any rate he's fat and a Catholic

far right means now if you are not woke and refuse to follow what is a minority idea on greens, illegal immegration, rainbow crap and the rest you are far right of the nazi party. those i know and speak too now are all far right miletants because of that, but will vote labour at the next election. its a funny old world nowadays.

Any new statements from Coutts mr j?..It's looking like Nigel's popularity is on the rise again..

If you like Farage or hate him, it’s beside the point.
Allowing banks to decide if you can have an account because of your political views is ridiculous…..doesn’t matter what your views are within reason, but political fortunes can reverse as can bank’s attitude to these matters so that nobody on the left or right can feel safe…..also with the push starting to get rid of cash, it is even more essential that we cannot be controlled by financial institutions or governments, because when this happens they will have access to everything you buy and a excellent profile of you to refer to….privacy will have been removed in their interest.
Incidentally I understand the organisations are scanning social media for items of interest, ……spooky.

GB News is not far right. The problem is we have been brainwashed by the mainstream into thinking the liberal left world view is the only possible view. GB news discuss topics robustly and try to give a balanced view rather than the Guardian reading British hating view we are so familiar with from the BBC, Sky, Ch 4, ITV and Ch 5.

I agree. Any world view not filtered through the lense of the mainstream medias editorial policy is routinely labelled "far right".
Thus any people concerned about numbers of migrants being placed in their communties are labelled as "far right" rather than "concerned local people who were never consulted."

Farages views have not suddenly changed, what has changed is that he is now on the threshold of not having enough money to qualify for having an account at Coutts.

Though it does seem odd that Coutts does not care about its own reputation if a client has tons of money invested with them but are suddenly morally outraged when you are barely over the minimum amount.

It now appears that Coutts didn’t agree with his political views not the fact he didn’t have the funds so next time you apply for a new bank account will there be a question enquiring about your political views ?

This is just an opinion but Coutts have some very influential clients on their books and the thought crossed my mind that pressure could be on them from certain sources to disassociate with Mr Farage. I don't necessarily agree with that scenario or class it as fair but suggest it is a distinct possibility.

He’s had an account with them for years and meets their criteria…their file which Coutts produced has nowt to do with banking more with politics.

A large part of that was a mortgage which will be fully paid off this month. Hence his investments/saving will potentially fall below their threshold.

As you said, Coutts have had no problem with him having an account with them for years and Farage's view have not really changed so why would this be done for political reasons,
they offred to transfer him to a NatWest account which they also own, so are not saying they do not want him as a customer.

You haven't seen Farage licking his lips whilst reading out the best bits from the Coutts Files??

Apparently they are saying exactly that or they would have allowed him to retain his account.
I take it you haven’t read the report.
It being Farage is neither here nor there, it’s happened to other people too, this case has just highlighted it.
When questions are being asked in Parliament about it since the report there’s something amiss.

I should imagine they produce similar reports on all their clients, weighing up their pros and cons on an annual basis.

The cons for Farage will not have changed (as his views haven't), though his commercial viability has, now that his mortgage is no longer counted as an investment. Hence why they have only now told him he cannot have a top tier account, only a regular NatWest one.

The self professed man of the common people is just having a big whine because he has to now bank with the common man.

By the end of the month i reckon that bank is going to wish it had kept his account open with 50p...or a pound.

The bank have now officially apologised.
You miss the point completely, you obviously detest the bloke and let it override your common sense because this can be done to you too.

I look forward to the day I have my Coutts account closed because I do not quite have a million pounds in it.

At least we can now move on from Farage taking up all the front pages now that he has his account reinstated.

They did it to striking truckers in Canada, they didn’t have a million in the bank.
If you can’t see the relevance to yourself you have my deepest sympathy.

Move on ?? If your bank didn't agree with your political views and wanted to close your account you'd be ok with this ?? .Is this not big enough news ??ffs!!

I bet he's enjoying his pint tonight..

Except (as I read it) it hasn’t been reinstated. So the problem is still there.

There’s lots of talk here about Brexit and the EU but that’s not the point. Farage has been treated badly here, I mean bankers judging people, fuck me - they’re about as dodgy set of geezers as you could shake a stick at.

How many foreign despots and other "lovely individuals" with shady backgrounds does Coutts have as customers. Just a thought. They will be coming for Raj next!

Bankers forget they nearly did or did bankrupt the U.K. in 2008 with their reckless management but none were ever prosecuted.

Bankers are the last people on this Earth to be flaunting their ‘moral code’.

You have grudgingly admire Farage managing to keep a story of his bank account going for two weeks, he will have been gutted about the Huw Edwards story flattening it but managed to re ignite it, let’s hope he doesn’t want a Coutts Cash Isa as it might trigger Charles having to abdicate.

for me its one of the biggest news stories we have had that could affect all of us. even the new age leftys could also be in trouble also if there is a change in political main stream thought where they are regarded as the bad guys. its all about power to world organisations like the WHO and WEF and how they want to control especially the west. once the west falls into line so will the rest of the world even if china is the last to follow. one thing where being old is an advantage is i will not be around to see it.

There’s a lot of people out there who can’t get their heads around the impact this could have on everyone, because no one is safe regardless of your political persuasion.
To dismiss it because some people have tunnel vision over Farage because they don’t like the bloke is missing the elephant in the room.

On a quick look at Wikipedia it seems that Coutts bank has picked up two massive fines in recent years. For malpractice and rule breaching and mis selling of funds. I can’t be bothered to copy and paste it but it’s on the Wiki page if anyone’s bothered. Bearing this in mind, they think they can project a squeaky clean image of English fairness/honesty and high standards?

To me Coutts have been vindictive against N.F. and he has been right to highlight this.

Here are some snippets from the Farages Coutts file:

'Recommendation is to retain NF for now. However, it was noted that NF currently has a mortgage with Coutts, which is due to expire in July 2023 and which, on a commercial basis, we would not look to renew and so would suggest winding down the connection on that basis.'

'After the expiry of the mortgage with Coutts, NF would not be a criteria client, and we should set a glide path to exiting NF when that mortgage expires.'

They did discuss his views, and on potentially closing his account earlier if he made further statements which damaged the companies reputation:
'Therefore, the decision was to EXIT Nigel Farage (including business accounts), that exit to be on a glide path to coincide with the expiry of the mortgage, but an earlier exit to be considered if an event occurs that amplifies the reputational risks associated with banking NF. [third-party personal data removed] team would undertake monthly Adverse Press Checks on NF.'

This never happened and his account was closed in line with the expirartion of his mortgage. Therefore his account was not closed for politcal reasons but commericial ones.

I agree that this raises questions on whether anyone at Coutts/ other banks has had there accounts solely closed because of there views etc just not Farages narrative that he is been unbanked because of his views.

“Adverse press checks” What does this even mean? Some of the tabloids have form for simply making things up.

All this makes me wonder how seriously bad people keep an account running? Convicted murderers and the like.

anyone actually know of anyone having their bank account closed apart from lack of funds or doing something breaking an agreement with the bank like permanently overdrawn or refusal to pay off loans etc.

Their use of the phrase ‘reputational risks’ tells me all I need to know.

Had a 25 year career in banking last 5 years looking after high net worth customers that met a qualifying criteria, it was well below the Couuts level that multi millionaire man of the people Farage qualified for, if customers didn’t meet it they wouldn’t be offered it, if they fell below they were downgraded to an ordinary account. Nothing sinister about it, very transparent. Had everyone from working lads doing well to Morrisons directors.

You are missing the point totally, if banks want to be rid of customers that’s their choice. What you do is do it on the financial criteria alone except if your name is …A Hitler or J Stalin… which ain’t too good.
But a persons politics or preferences if legal are of no business of the bank so why did they mention them? They created this mess.

This isn’t about Farage …it’s about banks getting involved in things that are none of their business.