Coutts bank DID cancel Nigel Farage - and why this is a scandal

I'm still working on videos about ESG and why everyone should have babies, but in the meantime I was blown away by the revelations that Farage HAD been cancelled by Coutts bank because of his opinions - and not because he was too poor, as they'd claimed.
What's worse is that BBC journalists uncritically published Coutts' lies.
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[@irreverend_]

A bank calling someone a grifter is a bit rich

[@hittitecharioteer]

In what way has Farage grifted? It is a subjective opinion at best, and a slur at worst. It sounds like a clear case of defamation, to my thinking. Also, Coutt's surely breached obligatory client confidentiality discussing its dealings with Farage to a third party (BBC)? I am pleased I don't bank with Coutt's or Nat West.

[@irreverend_]

@@INFIDEL1046 Even if they did, it's rather like the pot calling the kettle black is it not? Not to mention the breach of confidentiality etc

[@hittitecharioteer]

@@INFIDEL1046 How so? To grift is to suggest money earned dishonestly. I don't believe I've actually heard that from the left (unless obliquely for legal reasons) with the SOLE EXCEPTION of a blatant lie and a slur made under "parliamentary privilege" (by someone who actually IS a chancer). I feel no kinship for Farage; but I wish we had a chance to vote in a referendum here in 🇮🇪☘. Oh! Wait🤔. We did…TWICE. Because the first time we voted the wrong way 🫣. How democratic and generous of the EU to allow us a chance to correct our uninformed and misguided voting 😉. 🕊and🤝.

[@spm36]

​@@INFIDEL1046BOT

[@johnlewis9158]

@@INFIDEL1046 You sound like the sort of person who once upon a time had their benefits paid to them by Giro lol

[@geoffreywestlock3212]

"This was a bank that was born a bank but clearly identified as a Soviet Secret Police Department" Hilarious (and sadly true).

[@guntertorfs6486]

Mr Kearse : always masterly at pointing out the hypocrisy of the overly politically correct. A pleasure to listen to.

[@raypurchase801]

Leo's bank will close his account in three, two, one...

[@guntertorfs6486]

@@raypurchase801 ...done.

[@matsimurf_5900]

​@@raypurchase801How's your wife, ray? Toasted, I'd say.

[@raypurchase801]

@@matsimurf_5900 Toast claims he gave my wife a pearl necklace. I asked her to show it to me and she just sniggered. (Confused persons should search "Ray bloody Purchase".)

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

Yep, and what nobody's pointing out is; What have Cu*tts invested other peoples' money in-? Saudi weapons deals, the hiking up of avocado prices in Africa, making a once staple of Africa akin to eating cereal with gold dust sprinkles, and all due to the same sanctimonious idiots who back this sort of childlike punitive action. If only their breathtaking hypocrisy actually suffocated them.

[@HBTeamaker]

Those people who are laughing at Nigel Farage's predicament clearly cannot think beyond their own prejudices.

[@irreverend_]

Indeed, I think the guy is a prick personally, but that's irrelevant to a bank or other company making anything like this public. I don't think it really matters what they said in board meetings, that's an internal matter. It seems pretty crappy of them, but then again it's up to them how to run the business I suppose.

[@Thespian-wp6xq]

I pay my bank to look after my money, not to tell me how to think or how to behave.

[@am4793]

Banks are private businesses and they do track your behaviour before they allow you to use their facilities. Do you think they give debit cards to bankrupts, excons and grifters?

[@rozzgrey801]

@@am4793 Yes they actually do give financial services to known criminals. and no-one likes a conformist creep (that's you) who endorses such discriminatory behaviour.

[@am4793]

@user-kl9zu7qw9g you miss the point. Banks do track what potential customers do and they would have downgraded Farage strictly based on business criteria. Why is a NatWest bank account not good enough for Farage?

[@joycegibbs5267]

not anymore is seems !

[@johnmoncrieff3034]

The irony of the action taken by Coutts is astounding. They claim to be one of the most prestigious bank in the country and have to uphold a level of standard higher than most. when in fact they are owned by Nat West who had to be baled out by the UK tax payers to the tune of multiple billions due to incompetence and are now 39.8% owned by the people of the UK through their taxes! Don't let the politicians fool you when they say it is the government who own the shares in R B S GROUP. the gov. has no money what so ever it is all tax payers or borrowed which the taxpayer has to fund! If the politicians were looking after the welfare of the people instead of Banks and big business they would have had in place the inalienable right for every individual to have a bank account! In a democratic society it is perfectly legal and proper for individuals to hold different political views to those they do business with and it normally is not a barrier to doing that business! If we were only allowed the one view of political progress then that would be communism and we are not at that juncture just yet!

[@WahrheitMachtFrei.]

Bankers cancelling you for your suspect views and lack of wokeness is peak 2023.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Woke Capitalism must be destroyed

[@joycegibbs5267]

not even peak friend !!

[@lovelettertothewest]

Excellent Monologue! I'm not a big fan of Nigel Farage, but Coutts approach is really absolutely disgraceful.

[@barriewilliams4526]

Ironically, Nigel (as a taxpayer) is part owner🙃

[@BritishEngineer]

Ironically we partly own thousands of weapons

[@hittitecharioteer]

39% public ownership.

[@pistonburner6448]

So illegal immigrants are allowed to break the law according to human rights courts. But what do they say about the human rights of people acting perfectly legally, simply wanting to live in society which is only possible with a bank account? Oh, and how about their right not to be slandered and lied about, accused to be all sorts of bad things publicly by their bank?

[@pheebsbee1280]

5-star rant. Thank you for the 'born a bank but identifies as a Soviet era establishment' quip. 🥰

[@adrianlloyd6403]

Jon Sopel.What a non-entity of a journalist.That's why he had such a long career at the BBC.

[@hittitecharioteer]

Trump put him in his place without breaking a sweat. So funny to watch.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Dreadful "cosmopolitan".

[@brainmoor]

Without a shadow of a doubt, the funniest and most spot on man on the airwaves - thank you Leo for being you! God bless you! 🙏

[@daibrent8871]

Leo, your videos just get better and better. I share them with my leftie brother and they always annoy him. Which makes me smile. Top man.

[@hittitecharioteer]

A mirror to their idiocy and hypocrisy.

[@squizza28]

I hope he takes them to the cleaners. It's blatant discrimination against him because they don't like his views, which are held by very many people. And that is against his rights. Especially when the other banks follow their lead.

[@srobbouk]

Spot on again Leo.

[@LeoKearse]

Glad you think so!

[@Caratacus1]

'FIght back by making sure your bank account is always overdrawn so they can't close it'. Might be the funniest line I've heard on UTube 🤣

[@larx4074]

This goes all the way to Larry Fink at Black Rock as he pronounced that he will get corporations and companies to correct the behaviour of workers and customers.................

[@ElCharvo]

This Farage farce is a warning to ordinary folk-they always show us their future plans.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

The Right must take on Woke Capitalism

[@tonynoonan3723]

YES.And who is pulling Larry Finks strings,thats the head of the snake responsible for the projection of evil in to the hearts and minds of human beings.All talk of politicians and companies is way of the mark,they are mere conduits through which the real power structure exerts its will.

[@michaelhastie9729]

I’m surprised that energy and other big household companies have not criticised Coutts and other banks who have closed down people’s accounts. These companies are paid by direct debit monthly by their customers, so, if the customers have had their accounts close, how do they pay these companies? The big question is, where does people keep their money now, they have no bank account? How do companies pay their employees who have no bank accounts. Coutts, and other banks have definitely not thought this through. Families and companies are going to suffer because of Coutts. Coutts talk of values and their reputation, but its well-known fact, banks launder money for criminal organisation, pay country dictators to overthrow other countries. These thing are well documented, and have been going on for a very long time, yet Coutts talk about their values and reputations.

[@rogerkay8603]

Coutts doesn't worry about the likes of you and I.

[@slinkerdeer]

Ah Leo, excellent comedian you are. "Turn your gold into a butt plug so the stazi can't get it off you without social awkwardness" 😭😂

[@Sennaxm71]

Literally comedy gold 🤣

[@amccau77]

Brilliant 😂

[@sandfly]

Leo is exceptional in his fluency and exposition: all done with humour too.

[@Cotictimmy]

Seems to me that Coutts are confused about the definitions of 'Diversity' and 'Conformity'.

[@wendykinsey-o6x]

Frikkin A Leo. Fantastic. The first time I heard you do a gig, I knew you would be one of favourite comedians and you sure as heck are. Your research turned into cutting edge comedy is worth gold, the real kind. A rare thing in the upside down clown world. All of the UK should do a one day seminar on Stalin, Nazis, Stasi and their leaders. All university kids need to spend time with those from eastern Europe and any remaining who liberated the camps in Europe after WWII ended. OUR young and sadly many of all ages need to understand how authoritarianism harms and blocks all freedoms. We got to educate the dumbed down populace. Thx Leo. Keep on truckin man.

[@muzz852]

I can accept one bank saying they don't want you as a customer is ok for reasons such as economic viability or illegal activity. However I can't accept that all banks reached the same decision in synchrony. You simply can't function without a bank as a 'normal citizen'. His political thoughts are irrelevant to any functions a bank undertakes.

[@cvn6555]

That is exactly the point the bank is trying to make. Get out of line, speak up, express the wrong political opinions online or show up at the wrong rallies and you will be made a non-person. They are telling you that they will do it to you and everyone you know by doing it so publicly to someone with a huge platform to protest it. Wait until cash is eliminated- under five years is my guess- and banks will do this at the behest of govts and on their own accord, making it impossible to live. Also look for banks to start charging astronomical fees for having accounts as well as limiting account balances so people cannot save.

[@chesshooligan1282]

Laura Towler and Mark Collett had their bank accounts closed by different banks on exactly the same day. They were clearly sending a message. This doesn't come from the banks. This comes from above.

[@candjim]

Right, thats it. I shall withdrawal all of my £3.47 from my account and bury it in a secret location.

[@g8ymw]

What interest do Coutts pay you on your account? lol

[@alansmith795]

3_47you rich bugga I don't even have a bank account and now don't want one

[@rchatte100]

Bloody brilliant mate, always make sure you have a massive debt on your account so they can't cancel you :) BTW, have told Natwest i'm leaving after over 30 yrs with them!

[@she9896]

Isn’t “BBC Verified” an oxymoron?

[@hittitecharioteer]

BBC? Are they STILL going? 🤔

[@joeblack8915]

It's the BBC, so just scratch out the 'oxy'.

[@clarewalsh7247]

Excellent discourse x

[@landoremick7422]

Fecking brilliant Leo. Well done

[@daveb6470]

BBC Verified! Ha. That is so ironic it stings

[@knoxieman]

The government have said they are going to get this sorted out, I would tell the banks you either stop doing this or we take back the forty percent share, coutts have a pr disaster on their hands with this and I'm very happy about that

[@thefool8224]

the same government that allowed them to do this in the first place?

[@michaelobrien9506]

Very well stated, Leo. Keep it going

[@KennethShort-cl7up]

You are one amazingly intelligent man. Thank you, what a take down!

[@liamrobinson2084]

Another brilliant rant! Cheers!

[@LeoKearse]

Thanks Liam 🙏

[@them0nk82]

Well said Leo.

[@ewanrollo5562]

Coutts have destroyed their reputation, and made Nigel Farage more popular than ever

[@denb695]

I wonder how many other clients are discussed when the head of Coutts is dining at her usual round of feel good charity dos. Will the Royals want their picture taken like Catherine recently laughing with the head Dame herself.Such caring inclusive people.

[@broda1824]

👏👏Well said Leo! On point and voiced as always in an amusing way.

[@notmyrealname9032]

Brilliant Leo - everything you say here is so true.

[@johnbelfort8423]

Leo's a funny, clever, articulate guy. In a just world he'd have his own show on the BBC.

[@fionagregory9147]

Not BBC. GBNEWS is best.

[@johnmehaffey9953]

As a taxpayer I demand that coutts pays back the billions of pounds they got of us tax payers with immediate effect or else I’ll have to close their banking accounts down see how they like it

[@LC-mai]

this isn't the first time the banking system has pulled something like this. I really hope the uk government actually cracksdown on it

[@kym1160]

Spot on Leo 👍....the eu will be 😡 when they realise they've help Nigel Farage in some way.

[@elizabethfowler4217]

What gives a banking organisation the right to decide on what their account holders political views should be other than what they themselves believe. I would call them a ‘barking mad’ organisation. Stick to looking after people’s money in the best way possible.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

We must destroy Woke Capitalism

[@cvn6555]

This is the path for the future. They have not been able to capture the populace by all their educational, cultural, social and governmental moves. The long march through the institutions has only gotten them to this point and there are still too many people that refuse to bend to socialism, to total central control. By making sure that the wrong people can't have bank accounts, can't do business, can't travel and then eliminating cash in favor of CBDCs you are able to get most of the refuseniks to capitulate. either get with the social credits programs or you will not eat or be able to buy anything. It is truly evil but there can be no other reason for all of these moves, for all of these ideas to be pushed so hard, so fast, all at the same time.

[@barbararice6650]

My money is moralising at me now, it was bad enough when my ice cream used to do it 😑

[@barryh1477]

If the people want power shutdown, NatWest, then we will see what happens next when they can’t function

[@lesterbeedell9725]

Brilliant Leo Kearse

[@Michel-7.7.7]

Greetings from a german admirer of british humor. I never heared of this rotten bank before but i hope their DEI BS comes to bite them in the a$$. Your "on point" comments should help a lot, to give them the exposure they deserve

[@stablefairy9437]

"I don't remember being asked if Coutt's values aligned with mine before I was asked to bail them out" BOSH!!!!!

[@drsigh]

Your best yet, Leo - dear effing G this shite boils my proverbial...

[@charlescawley9923]

Good grief. All in one breath. Excellent

[@tonyraffe3162]

Great rant. 😂 now I’m going to be cancelled 😢

[@hittitecharioteer]

With 30,000,000 others.

[@RedHotscot]

A work colleague in the financial services industry once told me, never worry about being in debt (overdraft/loan/mortgage), it's the guys you owe money to who should be worried. He also warned me never to use the same bank/group for your personal and business accounts, and never use the same bank/group for you and your partners accounts.

[@agw100100]

Another caustic, funny but high quality summary. Thanks.

[@melmo5218]

Really, but really, I remember a time when people trusted their bank manager like they trusted their doctor. Sound advice, good for the customer and good for the bank. After Lehman and covid, I trust them like I would a barrow boy with dodgy fruit and a Quack with a litre of outrageously expensive snake oil.

[@beansandmacaroni8758]

hey but warlords,dictators,et all.they're fine

[@matthewmorrissey1613]

Great work Leo. I might be too optimistic in thinking every reasonably minded person in the UK would agree with you views here. If not, they should. Just subscribed after seeing you on GB News. Top notch

[@freedomdreamer1650]

This has given me pause for thought and given me a newly found appreciation for Tracy Chapmans classic song talkin bout a revolution

[@anauthor1440]

We should go back to the days when we got paid every week by cash !

[@1speakeasy]

Well done m8, spot on

[@Bob-tq2jv]

I never had an account with the NatWest but won’t ever now. Politics is politics and business is business. Coutts should stop trying hard to be Big Brother and do what banks do best - making money

[@michaelwhiles5282]

Fabulous - and the bank have now apologised - however the guilty people for ‘leaking’ customer data must be SACKED !

[@finjessamine6596]

Careful Leo they'll be coming for you next 😂top man as usual

[@carlharrison3637]

To be inclusive, we're excluding you. The irony, just is abound.

[@annother3350]

Zero diversity of opinion allowed

[@css7765]

Great to find you Leo. Well said! I agree totally with you.

[@francgmaj]

These bailouts to banks with our tax money should be reclassified as a loan from the people and with interest. If not paid promptly go to public ownership regulated by us not the government regulators. This is all possible but why not questioned and acted on?

[@freespeech3673]

This is why i use cash anytime I can and boycott these trendy card only cafes

[@mumsspaghetti6649]

Its a shame farage never spoke out when the likes of Katie and Tommy got de bankedd

[@hittitecharioteer]

Maybe he didn't' know? (I didn't.) Hardly like he isn't a very busy man, dealing with morons throwing constant brickbats at him?

[@knoxieman]

I agree, when it happened to Tommy he called him a thug, the left need to learn that they will come for your bank account as well

[@mumsspaghetti6649]

@@hittitecharioteer he knew. He always knows about them being blacklisted from GB news

[@pablorages1241]

How embarrassing for Farage ... not having a MILLION pounds in the bank !

[@hittitecharioteer]

Great comment👏🏻

[@evolassunglasses4673]

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[@trubritain]

Removing somebody's bank account is a direct attack on that persons life and the government should legislate on this immediately.

[@Fre667Roger-Ring]

The truth will always out eventually.🤔🇬🇧✊

[@Craigmutch]

Brilliant 👏 as always Leo....Or Comedys Answer to Neil Oliver.

[@bobbybobscotch8965]

Well done, Mr Kearse; your best video so far!

[@jamesbrown2184]

Now that we know it's all the banks I'm considering making a complaint to mine. Wonder if I'll be cancelled next? I'm not the biggest fan of Nigel but what's happening to him is outrageous and we all need to speak up now!

[@davidroberts1187]

Hits the nail squarely on the head again.

[@jamiebensson6024]

I remember the good old days of if your account was over by just a pound for 28 consecutive days they’d immediately close said account without notice 🤷🏻what an utter farce our society has become SMH x great video, Leo x

[@jackhargreaves1911]

Alison Rose epitomises the type of banker that would run a publicly subsidised bank these days. A CEO whose career revolves around hob-nobbing at Westminster; perfecting her appearance of political correctness, with the help of PR and image consultants; stopping the bank lending to oil companies (while driving a car, heating her house, and using electricity); taking multi-million pound bonuses paid for (effectively) by taxpayers. Give us all the money back, Alison (money that you played a part in losing) then your board can decide whether it really can afford to pay you a £5 million bonus every year. Until then, it cannot (and I suspect it won’t afterwards, either. But you will be running the BBC or a quango by then).

[@tomcummin6801]

Coutts bank has said it does not close customer accounts "solely on the basis of legally held political and personal views" Please note probably most important word in the Coutts statement. Solely. Therefore the political and personal views were a factor. Did the Coutts spokesperson think no one would notice that word?!

[@johnnunn8688]

I happen to like Farage. Those people who don’t should be saying, ‘I don’t like Farage but Couts bank has committed a heinous sin against him’.

[@stringfish100]

Scales of justice. Balance one side against the other. If you only have one side, it ain't no scale, and there can't be any justice or accountability. Where's the kings voice?

[@wicsiow]

🤣 Blunt, to the point & sooooo funny

[@omama58]

👏👏👏‼️ Thanks from Amsterdam 🇳🇱⚖️

[@osiris7800]

Great rant bro, well constructed and delivered.

[@charliekane135]

That Coutts home page is enough to make me king' boke 😝 I'd *never* give them a penny of my money after seeing that atrocity.

[@rachelmaxwell5953]

I needed a laugh and this was brilliant!! 👍😆

[@dickyt1318]

according to a rumour at the time, Elizabeth the late Queen Mother's Coutts' account was overdraw to the tune of several million quid but that didn't get her debanked !

[@MinskUK]

When I think of Coutts, I imaging a board that are so white and posh, they likely live in castles and stately homes. The only diversity they preside over is the colour of their horses.

[@harryfloros8796]

The little guy failed to rise up and give the left it’s revolution, so the little guy can get lost now. The new little guy is the gullible, susceptible, unhappy wanna-believer, gotta-believer. The guy who needs approval and to belong. Children. Youths. The kind of person who used to prance up and down the high street chanting Hare Krishna.

[@davidwhelan1545]

Great news for Mr Farage!

[@andrewbaker6256]

Brilliant as always. By the way if any business is saying they tick all the social class boxes this means they are not necessarily employing the best people to do the job.

[@barnaby5548]

When did anybody last see a programme detailing the Workings of the Banking System and the Creation of Money?

[@beingatliberty]

Bang on as usual

[@orkneyancestor2059]

This is the result of the diversity employment at Coutts Bank

[@johnlewis9158]

If Nigel isn't rich enough at the moment to hold a account with Coutts he certainly will be in the very near future should he sew Coutts lol. Indeed given the overwhelming evidence them it would appear Coutts wouldn't have leg to stand on should Farage decide to sew

[@pameladent5035]

I think you mean to sue and not sew as that is sewing your ripped shirt etc

[@johnlewis9158]

@@pameladent5035 A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet lol

[@winstonsmithsoul]

Let’s all say it loudly 46 Billion pounds!!! Where’s my fking Christmas card????

[@scousesean9623]

Spot on Leo.

[@offshoretomorrow3346]

Free Speech Union has a major announcement on this today: the govt has announced they are making this totalitarianism illegal! Well done, Toby!

[@prodiver7]

Wedgie Benn must be turning in his grave. Yay. Remember him on the EU?

[@Cdarlosfletch58]

I Woke up one morning and realised the world has gone Woke ! Who ever has the purse strings runs the world ! Don’t go cashless or wokeless you will end up being a nowt …

[@user-vv9zo4sc4k]

Brilliantly put together absolutely spot on

[@merxeddie6474]

As this moment your bank is sifting through your subscriptions to establish your political allegiances.If they don’t align with theirs you may suffer as NF. The dystopian future has arrived.

[@rebg2436]

Love your podcasts!