Say what you like about Nigel Farage – and Hugh Muir certainly has (Pity Nigel Farage as he is deemed too horrible to bank with the elite at Coutts, 19 July) – but his cancellation by Coutts is nothing to do with victimisation. It’s about hypocrisy.
Coutts claims to be “an inclusive organisation” but its raison d’etre is exclusivity. Like many corporations and financial institutions, Coutts is virtue-signalling in a bid to keep the masses onside while doing business as usual to promote capitalism and concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the privileged few.
