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Originally Posted by Damien
She didn't have to discuss (and lie) about his account.
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Of course.
However the BBC at the same time didn’t have to spin it beyond what she claims she said. Given the current climate at the BBC it’s difficult to believe their journalistic claims of integrity.
The BBC have been unscrupulous throughout this entire process selectively reporting by omitting Coutts own reasoning: commercial ones.
Even today the City Minister has been allowed to imply - unchallenged - that the decision was for political reasons.
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City Minister Andrew Griffith has told the BBC that the resignation of NatWest chief executive Alison Rose was right.
He said: "This would never have happened if NatWest had not taken it upon itself to withdraw a bank account due to someone’s lawful political views.
"That was and is always unacceptable."
He added the whole finance sector "should learn from this" and not tell clients "how or what to think".
Mr Griffith will meet banks today to discuss plans to bring in changes requiring banks to explain and delay decisions to close accounts.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-66296935
(7.13 time stamp)
This will send a shiver through the spine of our financial sector that Government interference in commercial matters may not be too far away if it impacts their cronies. While of course the Government is a huge shareholder in Natwest, it’s not because we have a penchant for state intervention it was the only thing preventing them from collapse. Until now seemingly, for overtly political reasons.