Bankers Gloated and Celebrated Farage Debanking, Internal Messages Show

Bankers at NatWest have been exposed for gloating and mocking Brexit boss Nigel Farage after his bank accounts were shut down, bragging that they had “single-handedly driven him out of the country”.

A subject access request has unearthed internal messages from employees at NatWest — which owns the Coutts bank that debanked Nigel Farage earlier this year for political reasons — hailing the decision to drop the populist politician.

Staff have been shown to characterised Mr Farage as an “awful human being” and “vile” as well as claiming that he had “dodgy Russian connections” — a debunked narrative that was popular among the pro-Remain establishment media during the 2016 EU Referendum.

Following his public disclosure that Coutts had shut down his accounts, one NatWest employee said per The Telegraph: “Have you all seen Nigel Farage’s Twitter? No one will bank him now. Have we single-handedly driven NF (Nigel Farage) out of the country?”

Then, after the BBC falsely reported that his accounts were solely shut down for financial reasons — a claim that emanated from former NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose, who resigned following the incident — another employee wrote: “Hope that knocked him down a peg or 2.”

Referencing a previous assault on the Brexit leader, another staff member said: “I’d throw a milkshake at him if I was approached to open an account for him.”

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