The shit’s hit the fan at Coutts bank. Which is actually just a few mediocre branches of Nat West specifically used by snobs, snooties, debs, Sloane Rangers, minor aristocrats, major wankers and the tragically aspirational. Because its a 300-year-old ‘private’ bank. Even though its now owned by Nat West who are a bit private but not when it comes to government bale-outs in financial crises. Coutts has its own rules for banking there, mainly that you have loads of money or don’t bother applying. Fine, they can do that. Then came ‘Farage-gate’ and they learned a valuable lesson that 300 years of banking hadn’t taught them, which is: don’t pick a fight with Nigel Farage. You’ll lose. Better off to take him down a quiet alley and beat the shit out of him. But don’t try to out-smart him.

The ridiculous chain of events resulted in the resignation of Dame whassname Rose, the CEO of NatWest, quickly followed by that of Peter Flavel, CEO of Coutts. Whereas Nigel Farage is still gainfully unemployed, his status remaining the same.

Flavel had to go, even though, after 7 years as head of the bank, he had ‘radically changed its attitude to include environmental considerations and ‘diversity and inclusion’. So here’s a question for Peter: why do the terms ‘diversity and inclusion’ range from the entire multitude of gender/sexuality bollocks or non-bollocks, extending to all manner of deviations, opinions and attitudes and yet, manage to EXclude horrible, right-wing, Europhobic racists? In which text book or bible is it written that the only people worthy of being treated to ‘inclusiveness and diversity’ are on the left-wing or are wombless women?

I fucking hate Nigel Farage, politically, (in all else he is wonderfully good value) but if you’re preaching ‘inclusivity’ then surely that implies no bias against anything, including politics. Otherwise it is just selectively inclusive which is back where they started, just with different selections.

I only raise this issue because I feel that right-wingers generally get a really bad deal, whilst everyone else enjoys inclusion and the celebration of their diversity. I’m no right winger and yet, like everyone else, MUST be entitled to air their views, however much they differ from mine. Surely the whole point of ‘inclusiveness’ is to include.

Happy Friday

A xxxx