NIGEL FARAGE has blasted the reported payment of £2.4m – set to be handed to Dame Alison Rose – as a “sick joke”.
The former Natwest boss is due to receive the package following her departure from the bank.
Reacting to the news, Mr Farage told GB News: “Had she been sacked for what she did, she wouldn’t have been entitled to any of this. She would’ve been history. What did she do? Number one, she broke my confidentiality. Any employee at Nat West Bank who broke that confidentiality would be given a plastic box of their possessions and told to leave the building immediately.
She then broke pretty-much every important rule in the regulator, the FCA’s rule book, so she broke the law.
“So, at every level, what she has done in terms of banking is heinous. And what we’re seeing here, from Sir Howard Davies who was chairman of the NatWest Group, is this kicking into the long grass, the so-called inquiry into what she did, being given to a city law firm, Travers Smith, [but] the Emeritus chair of that firm, Chris Hale, has described Brexiteers as ‘xenophobes and racists. So, I don’t see much independence, frankly, in that inquiry.
Frankly, I think the whole thing is a sick joke. It is the British establishment at its very worst, looking after itself.”
Meanwhile Mr Farage has revealed how he is now close to securing a new bank account.
He continued: “t’s a work in progress. I’ve got a phone call in about half an hour with a big-name bank who have said to me on the phone that they do not discriminate against their customers on the basis of their perfectly legally-held views, so I’m hoping after, I can’t think how many hours, how much time and how much money I’ve spent, I hope I’m going to be close to a solution.”
Mr Farage also said he felt the Government was getting a grip on the wider banking scandal.
“I think the City Minister Andrew Griffith – and indeed the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt – moved very, very quickly, on the back of my case but I think everybody understood that these closures of accounts had been going on – for far, far too long. So, there is progress, the government have told the regulator the FCA in no uncertain terms to get to grips with this.”
