Point of Order: Coutts: the laughs keep coming

Readers who enjoyed Thursday’s Coutts bank story will be keen for the next instalment.

Well, the folk running the bank have finally stirred from their torpor and issued a well-lawyered apology to the debanked Nigel Farage (a man whose career in some respects resembles that of our very own Winston Peters).

Who promptly released it to the media (which in some respects resembles the behaviour of our very own …).

It’s as well crafted as you would expect from London’s legal finest:

Peter Williams: Faraged

How the Royal Family's bank shut down the Brexiteer

The banking woes of Nigel Farage are confirmed.

The Brexit movement leader and broadcaster had his account at the prestigious Coutts Bank closed because the bank didn’t like his political views.

Brendan O'Neill: Woke capitalism and its useful idiots

Yes, Coutts and other capitalist monoliths really are punishing people for being ‘unwoke’.

So there you have it. Nigel Farage really was given the boot from the prestigious private bank Coutts because of his political views. Because he is very pro-Brexit, is fond of Donald Trump and has been critical of Black Lives Matter. Because, in the words of an extraordinary internal dossier compiled by Coutts, his views ‘do not align’ with the bank’s values. For the past fortnight the chattering classes have been chortling over Farage’s claim that Coutts was persecuting him for his political beliefs. How dumb – worse, how complacent in the face of corporate tyranny – those people look now.