Nigel Farage has said his bank accounts have been shut down to force him out of the U.K. due to his position on Brexit and accusations that he has taken money from Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia. The Mail has more.
In an extraordinary six-minute video published on Twitter, the former Brexit Party and UKIP leader, said he was a victim of “political persecution” and suggested he was trying to be forced out of the U.K.
Mr. Farage claimed the banking group told him earlier this year his personal and business accounts would be closed over the summer. He did not name the group, but told his 1.7 million followers this morning that he had been banking with them since 1980.
Painting himself as the victim of a “serious political persecution”, Mr. Farage claimed that the extraordinary measure was effectively tantamount to making him a “non-person”, adding: “I won’t really be able to exist or function in a modern 21st century Britain. I’m beginning to think that perhaps life in the United Kingdom is now becoming completely unliveable because of the levels of prejudice against me.”
Mr. Farage speculated that the “establishment” was targeting him due to his role in campaigning for Brexit during the 2016 referendum on British membership of the EU. He also suggested that his reputation had been smeared by Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant, who last year used parliamentary privilege to claim that Mr. Farage was paid more than £500,000 by the Russian state through his appearances on Russia Today in 2018. He vehemently denied this, saying: “I didn’t receive a penny from any source with even any link to Russia.”
Sources close to the politician at the time claimed the £548,573 figure quotes in the House of Commons, using parliamentary privilege, was his firm’s total income for the year, not an amount he received from Russia Today, on which he made a series of appearances that year.
Last year, British film-maker Graham Phillips was added to the U.K. Government’s sanctions list, accused of being a conduit for pro-Russian propaganda.
The video blogger was filming pro-Kremlin material from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine shortly after the conflict first broke out.
As a result of being on the sanctions list, his assets were frozen.
In his bombshell video, Farage speculated a range of possible reasons for the alleged closure, including suggesting that he had been deemed a politically exposed person (PEP).
A PEP is an individual that holds a prominent public position or function, and may be deemed more susceptible to bribery, corruption or other money laundering offences due to their role.
“If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too,” he wrote on Twitter.
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They’ve also done it to a greater extent to citizen journalist Graham Philips who has been reporting from the Donbass since 2014.
Only he’s been told that he’s a terrorist! Shameful treatment of an independent journalist who is challenging the status quo.
Not a single mention of this on the BBC, how strange…
Perhaps they run Farage articles only if they are running a smear campaign, such as the Arron Banks stories. This banking story may well become big news. The denial of banking facilities was previously confined to organisations that did not comply with the Party Line, rather than targeting individuals. The grey area, perhaps the battle-zone, is what Farage mentioned: the concept of the “politically exposed person”. Individual dissidents would be an obvious target for “bankfare”.
It is a BBC tactic to OMIT things. ——–Instead of lying about something they just don’t discuss it. —–They have been doing this for years. Or another tactic is to get Joe Bloggs in the street to say into a microphone something they dare not say themselves to try and get a message across.
Access to a bank account should be a basic human right, it’s practically impossible to function in modern society without one.
THIS IS WHY EVERYONE SHOULD USE CASH WHENEVER POSSIBLE. Using a card instead may be convenient, but if cash is abolished as a result, we become totally at the mercy of the banks and the state. China has virtually abolished cash. Consequently mobile phones can be used to track all transactions, and if your behaviour is deemed disruptive, your access to money can be restricted (the social credit system). You are forced to conform.
I’m fortunate that there are 3 cash-points in my small west country town and the two main supermarkets also still give cash-back.
I seldom pay by card now. I’m regularly withdrawing small sums from all the cash-points – so they all remain regularly used – and in the supermarket I generally go to the staffed tills and get some cash-back.
If everyone does the same, as much as they are able, we will make it extremely difficult for them to cancel cash.
We no longer have any human rights.. We lost them during the Covid scamdemic when the vast majority of the population complied like the deranged and deluded people they are.
The fact is, the UK is now a Marxist Authoritarian state, no hiding from it, the fact is.. Don’t keep your money in a bank…
Once you make that deposit.. Its no longer yours
And to the thumbs downer….. Good luck to you when thers a run on the banks when you’re stood in the queue outside your bank and the doors are locked…
You’ll realise who’s money it is then…
Government guarantee that 85k of your money is safe in a uk bank
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Anyone who believes that is gullible beyond all measure
(I’m not one of the thumbs downers) Where do you suggest keeping money if not in a bank?
In gold in a safety deposit box.
Well, this is the dilemma isn’t it..
One thing that galvanised my thoughts during the Covid scamdemic is to never ever trust the establishment.
I certainly don’t feel like the money I have in the banks is safe, tbh right now the way things are going securely storing cash may well be prefered..
The Fiat experiment is over, we’ve arrived at the end game.. Great Reset.. CBDCs.
Gold /Silver.. Physical. (more likely to be a round of Gold confiscation than Silver)
Bitcoin
Any asset of your choice..but no cash with those Banksters
Disgusting! This is happening more and more often. It happened to the chaps at Triggernometry. We never used to hear about things like this happening. Now, we seem to be getting stories like this regularly.
If we end up with CBDCs, the state and banking organisations will effectively be able to bankrupt you at the flick of a switch. I hope Nigel sorts out something quickly. If the banking group doesn’t back down, he should name and shame them. My suspicion is that part of this is his campaigning about CBDCs on the Fortune and Freedom site.
So Farage proves another whackjob conspiracy theory to be fact.
First Farage then the rest of us.
As predicted.
Not a cockup since all 7 major banks have denied him the basic decency and right of a bank account. No state intervention on his behalf from the ‘con’-vict party.
What was his crime again? A murdering psychopath has a bank account. An illegal invader will be given one, but not the consequential and heroic Farage.
This about sums up the depravity which now exists in the UK.
Nigel Farage attacked, debanked and forced to leave.
Don’t recall Farage expressing outrage when Tommy Robinson couldn’t get a bank account. Quite the reverse, he appeared to join in with the condemnation of someone who like Farage was telling uncomfortable truths.
The Daily Mail still has nothing on this story.
The Telegraph has finally posted something.
Keep an eye on who censors this as they are part of the system.
What do you mean “The Daily Mail still has nothing on this story”? The Daily Sceptic article is from The Mail with a link to it!
The Daily Mail article on which the DS article was based appears to have been extended to include the Yorkshire Building Society rainbow issue, as well as mentioning (in the original?) the Graham Philips case. The message, if you don’t support The Current Thing you become a non-person, by deprivation of bank account, social media account and job. (I don’t know if somebody lent on the YBS to Go Rainbow or if they brought it on themselves. Next thing they’ll be trying to promote beer.) Elsewhere, the NHS Trusts have really bought into the craze (or had it thrust upon them) and integrated rainbows into their murals and architecture.
Farage has previously said he banked with Coutts. Coutts is part of the Nat West Group that includes RBS.
Nat West Group is still 39% owned by the Government. Coutts is chaired by Tory grandee Lord Waldegrave.
Effectively, Farage is being made an unperson by the state blob. Totally outrageous. This cannot be allowed to stand.
And to be treated like this when Farage put UKIP to bed, branded them as extreme then handed the Tories an 80 seat majority dumping 317 committed Brexit Party PPCs thus giving the Tories the opportunity to stuff us all!!!!
Sometimes our elites overreach themselves. I hope that this backfires and the backlash forces a change in the law to stop this happening again.
Agreed. i would add, I also hope that the next time the government proposes doing something to protect us all, like for example lock us up in our homes and then jab us to protect us from a virus or pass anti-money laundering regulations to supposedly protect us from financial scoundrels, the public thinks twice and asks itself: is this really to protect me or is this somehow going to come back and bite me hard?
The answer almost invariably is the latter..
Anti money laundering legislation was a big clampdown on cash wasn’t it.
On the other side of the pond the Biden crime family can take millions from China, Ukraine, and many other countries with dozens of transactions flagged for potential corruption. No business model, blatant influence peddling, 10% for the big guy, the rest laundered amongst his extended family. No investigation, nothing done. Only people on the right get de-banked. Political persecution is alive and well in western democracies. I think we are all getting sick of it. Forget France, the real revolution could happen here.
I hope Farage comes back from his couple of weeks off and decides to head up Reform UK. He is the only personality with the clout to make a difference. The Conservative Party is in enough trouble at the next election already, with Farage taking all the unrepresented conservative vote the two faced Tories would be finally and utterly destroyed. What’s more they know it, they would sh1t themselves.
He was a disappointment regarding lockdowns if memory serves. Possibly one of the few who could make an impact, and probably better than the mainstream, but not the leader I would choose, which would be David Kurten. But beggars can’t be choosers.
100% agree, Farage does get a lot wrong, and at one time Tice was pro-mandates (unforgivable), but realistically farage is the only one with a big enough public profile to make a difference.
Farage is a closet Tory and he just can’t bring himself to put the knife into the Tories. Tice is just the same I fear.
Its becoming evident that the present unelected UK government want us back in the EU and is getting rid of any opposition.
Lets not forget what they did and are still doing to Tommy Robinson.
I have no sympathy for banks.
But, since the financial crisis, they have been operating like quasi state bureaucracies.
They have had to pay some monstrous fines for enabling “money laundering” which when you actually dig into it, means allowing people to do business with countries that the state has black listed. For example, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar or now Russia.
The banks have been brought to heel with these monstrous fines.
So what happens? The moment someone like Farage receives an very public accusation of doing business with Russia, the bank is immediately running a risk of sanction, particularly with a very public figure like Farage.
So much crazy behaviour these days, including all the censorship, can be traced back to the heavy hand of the state with its bullying and its intimidation.
And the public is as always largely at fault for falling for the “we are doing it to catch drug dealers and money launderers” story and enabling the government’s abuse. But the public better wake up quick, or we are all going to be Farage’s in some way or another.
CBDCs are only a technical solution to expand and streamline a practice of financial control that is ALREADY in place.
JSO’s idiotic protests are ushering in new laws to crackdown on demonstrations. Mixed feelings about that. The laws we have should have been enough if the police had enforced them.
I agree. Our customers are in financial services and the management at every level are petrified of their internal audit, legal and compliance departments, external auditors, standards bodies and regulators. They jump when told to, even when they know it’s just box ticking or an overly cautious approach, and this adds huge frictional costs that seem out of proportion to the problems supposedly being solved or the risks being mitigated.
“and suggested he was trying to be forced out of the U.K.” Not really, more like [and suggested that they were trying to force him out of the UK]. Who writes this drivel, don’t the Daily Mail have subeditors any more? That aside it’s yet another Orwellian encroachment of the establishment on freedom of expression and freedom to live.
Is Lord Waldegrave still involved at Coutt,s ?
PRUK, peoples Republic of the United Kingdom! I’m so glad I left!
Republic of Ireland may be a banana Republic ,but at least they don’t send you to the gulag yet!
The Establishment is terrified of him. They know he’s cutting through with vastly more people than he ever did leading UKIP and even the Brexit Party.
Where are the pitchforks?
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If we let this go we are f-ing done for! WAKE UP BRITAIN
Just drop the bomb and get this slow choking, guttural human death over with!
If anyone is reading this – I use a small private (Scottish) bank who I am sure will be happy to have Nigel’s accounts (or anyone else who is cancelled).
The question is what are we all going to do about this? Anyone who protests on his behalf is going to worry their accounts too will be closed. No public groundswell of support for him. This is terrifying.
He has a point.
https://twitter.com/scoopurban/status/1674732513611198464?s=48&t=YHhETkd71nzdwrXWGYzkGQ
Twitter is now blocking access competely unless you have a Twitter account so Tweets are no longer in the public domain. Post a screenshot maybe?
All of the anti-money laundering, know your customer malarkey, like all legislation, only ever affects the little people. The real players who are drowning in wealth generated by corruption, fraud, slavery, sex trafficking, drug trafficking etc don’t use high street banks, they use offshore accounts hidden behind a web of shell companies and trusts. If you want to know how the world (and the City of London) really works I recommend this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8