When the bank’s bosses said ‘Your money is no good here,’ they meant it. He’s raging at them, but what does it say about him?
One of the most worrying problems in this modern Britain – laid low by 13 years of harsh Tory rule, bewildered by social media, blighted by social division – is that we now struggle to recognise a real victim when we see one.
But not today. Today, in the wake of the passing of the government’s obscene illegal migration bill, the attention is back where it should be – on those who are truly suffering. Yes, poor Nigel Farage and his fight with Coutts, the top, top, people’s bank, has made the front pages of the Mail and the Telegraph. True, their record in fighting the corner of the downtrodden is not great; but today marked a great stride forward.
Hugh Muir is the Guardian’s executive editor, Opinion
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