Tag: disingenuous

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. 

Britain’s elite Coutts Bank pinned several labels on Nigel Farage when deciding to drop him as a customer earlier this month — including those of “racist” and “xenophobe.” But it’s really the characterization of him as a “disingenuous grifter” that the former politician has done everything to prove since being de-banked.

After all, a grifter isn’t only a swindler and a con artist but also the operator of a circus sideshow,