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Post by politician2 on Aug 9, 2023 11:13:04 GMT
They do business with loads of evil c***s. The only qualification to bank with them is loads of £££. No idea what criteria they apply now – apart from the obvious financial one – but that wasn't the case when I joined Coutts back in 1995. Back then, you were invited for lunch or afternoon tea with your prospective private banker and the decision was made on whether or not he liked you. When offering me an account, Stephen, my banker, told me he had just turned down somebody in a similar financial position to me as "he wasn't our kind of person". A former colleague of mine brought his then-boss, who must have been a millionaire, to a Coutts Christmas party as a potential client. I didn't like him when we were introduced and neither did Stephen. He came over to me and said, very quietly, "That man will get an account with this bank over my dead body." |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 10, 2023 5:46:04 GMT
I’m amazed by just how much they didn’t like his politics
Perfectly understandable on one level but not what I’d expect banking executives to be saying, especially in such a forthright and unambiguous way
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Post by politician2 on Aug 10, 2023 10:59:09 GMT
I’m amazed by just how much they didn’t like his politics Perfectly understandable on one level but not what I’d expect banking executives to be saying, especially in such a forthright and unambiguous way As I've said repeatedly, I think it's partly a smokescreen. Their dislike of his politics only became a major issue to them when he was about to repay his mortgage. This odd article in The Guardian also makes one wonder. It's full of typical Guardianista inverted snobbery – the guy has a Coutts account but prefers to use a Monzo card so nobody thinks he is posh – but he specifically states that he doesn't meet Coutts's current criteria and yet wasn't asked to leave. He also insists that they're not levying the £225 quarterly fee for clients with less than £250,000 invested and/or borrowed, which makes me wonder why they're giving him free banking. www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jul/28/im-secretly-a-coutts-customer-but-for-people-like-me-theres-little-point |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 11, 2023 9:58:30 GMT
Hell of a smokescreen
Can't see that being the explanation
Would have been far more sensible and effective just to say you don't have sufficient funds, here's a Nat West account
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