NatWest Says It Just Wanted Farage To Use The Back Door

NatWest issued a statement today saying that all the bank really wanted Nigel Farage to do, was to stop using the front entrance when he came into the building.

“However,” a spokesman added, “we may also have inadvertently implied he was exactly the sort of jumped-up little ‘Gauleiter’ who’d enjoy telling people to keep a packed suitcase by the front door because they might be rounded up at any moment”.

Called on to justify that comment, he cited Farage’s statement that any “normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door”. He said the language was a subliminal signal that invited the public to see an entire nationality as subhuman.

“We’re not saying Farage is the sort of oily little weasel who’d definitely have joined Mosely’s Blackshirts in 1934? But we’re pretty sure he’d have been more than happy to hand out leaflets saying ‘You’d have a perfect right to be concerned if a family of Jewish people suddenly moved in next door’.”

NatWest later agreed it was effectively saying, “You’d have a perfect right to be concerned if the Farage family suddenly moved in next door”.