Which carries on assuming its perfect and virtuous status - even after getting it wrong. It confirms there is a woke sector of the Establishment that truly thinks it is infallible. Robinson's conceited haran-guing of Farage tells us a bigger story about political life in the 2020s. 'I'm sick to death of your condescending tone,' he shot back. 'You've run seven times and lost seven times', he sneered.įarage wasn't having it. He 'teased' him for failing to become an MP. Given all this, given the Beeb's cack-handed and biased handling of this important story, you might have expected the hosts of Today to show a little humility. The BBC itself has written to Farage to apologise for its promotion of 'incomplete and inaccurate' information. Rose has now resigned in disgrace and admits she made a 'serious error of judgment' when she breezily gossiped with a reporter about the confidential financial standing of one of her bank's clients. She blabbed to him at a posh charity dinner. It was Dame Alison Rose, NatWest's chief executive, who was the source of Jack's erroneous article. We now know not only that Jack's story was wrong but that he got it from the very top of the NatWest Group, which owns Coutts. The godfather of Brexit poses as a victim of woke oppression but really he's just not rich enough for that posh bank, they chortled. The Farage-hating Twitterati lapped it up. It wasn't a political move, he said - it's just that Farage 'fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts'. For not long after Farage first went public about his account closure, the BBC's business editor Simon Jack, wrote an article and took to Twitter to report that Coutts only gave him the heave-ho for commercial reasons. The BBC was implicated in this shocking act of political persecution. This Brexit-supporting, Trump-friendly, Net Zero-criticising public figure does not 'align' with our values, so let's give him the boot, Coutts decided. Mr Farage was on air to discuss his outrageous mistreatment by Coutts bank.Ĭoutts closed Farage's account after drawing up a sinister 40-page dossier documenting his apparently controversial political views. How else to explain Nick Robinson's arrogant clash with Nigel Farage on the Today programme yesterday? So even when the BBC is in the wrong, its pompous hosts still fancy themselves as the moral conscience of the nation.
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