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Nigel Farage Bank Accounts Closed due to Parliament Shenanigans
Nigel Farage is being cancelled in the country that he saved. Same thing happened to Churchill, so he’s in good company.
The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.
I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.
This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system.
If they can do it to me, they… pic.twitter.com/O4xQ1h79ub
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 29, 2023
The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.
I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.
This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system.
If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.Sir Chris Bryant, a Labour front-bencher and former Anglican minister has slandered Farage in Parliament using the same “word on the street” nonsense that Dingy Harry (Reid) deployed to create baseless suspicion about Romney’s taxes. Just as with our lawmakers, the lawmakers over there can say what they wish in Parliament with the only repercussions being political. That is as it should be, but the response by British banks has been monstrous. Neither bank nor government will respond to Farage’s inquiries, and meanwhile, he is being chased out of a modern existence.
We increasingly live in a society not of rights but of privileges. I’ve said for years that bitcoin won’t save you from the government — that still relies upon a broadly permissive (and technologically sound) infrastructure. The Canadian truckers and their supporters found out what it means to cross the government. Now Farage, safely out of major headlines, is being reduced by the powers that be.
One can not exist as a modern, effective person without access to infrastructure that is increasingly being weaponized for political purposes. The mayor of LA turned off water and electricity to people who did not mask up and lock down to his satisfaction.
The SHTF/WROL/zombie apocalypse doesn’t have to look like a horror film director’s imagery. It looks like today. We are already experiencing an abrupt erosion (first little by little, then all at once) in the efficacy of laws to protect our lives and property, and to provide consistency in society. Meanwhile, we are subject to a profusion of laws which restrict and reduce us. Those laws get enforced just fine, provided you aren’t a Biden or a Clinton.
We are already verging WROL (without rule of law), which is an early stage of SHTF. Heaven knows the zombies are multiplying. British law does not respect the human right to bear arms. If it did, they would have fewer rape-gang-police collusion counties and marauding knifemen. We’re having a hard enough time of things here in the States — I’m grateful that I know my door is defended and so is my family. I can not imagine being in Britain cowering at each knock.
Farage is being politically persecuted via the fascist arms of ostensibly representative government; as were the Canadian truckers, and as we are to a lesser degree.
Well, keep your machinery oiled and your skills up to date. And throw some support to Farage if you get a chance. He may well wind up here in the States.
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It is sad the birthplace of rights acknowledged is fallen so far.
It will happen here. Not that ConservativeINC will believe it.
I am so looking forward to the next episode of Law Talk.
“Same thing happened to Churchill”…interesting…link or reference on that?
Weeks after Germany surrendered, the UK went hard for socialism and voted Churchill out halfway through the Potsdam conference.
Wow and this is getting no press – It’s a bIG deal!
I thought you were saying that his bank accounts were closed at some point.
Here is tonight’s edition of Farage from GBNews (I tried to set the pointer to the start of his show; if it doesn’t work, it starts at the 2-minute mark. It’s worth watching the short news brief which comes up soon after, if only to watch one of the England Team’s cricketers physically bundle up and carry one of the ubiquitous “protestors” from Just Stop Oil off the pitch. That’s my England.):
I haven’t listened to the whole show, but Farage goes into considerably more detail than in the Twitter clip. His first guest, unsurprisingly, is Toby Young, who went through a similar incident last year when PayPal closed his personal and both his business accounts. He made a tremendous stink, and eventually his accounts were restored. IIRC, Toby told them to drop dead. Toby, in his role as head of the Free Speech Union, would like to get legislation passed which requires banks and similar institutions to tell customers whose accounts they close what the reason is, and that customers should have the right to challenge it. (Which seems quite reasonable to me.)
At the same time as this is going on, Harriet Harman (who replaced the oleaginous Sir Chris Bryant–mentioned in the OP–as head of the House of Commons Privilege Committee sometime last year), recently issued the committee’s report of “CakeGate” (wherein Boris Johnson was ambushed by a birthday cake brought in without his knowledge at No.10 Downing Street where he and several work colleagues who’d been there all day appeared to be having a “party,” and altogether too much fun during one of the Covid lockdowns.)
The committee concluded that BoJo had “recklessly misled” Parliament, knew he had broken the lockdown rules, and was to be sentenced to a 90-day suspension from parliament, a sentence so severe that it would require a special election in his district, where Labor hoped he’d lose his seat.
Johnson pre-empted this strategy by resigning his seat 48 hours before the committee report came out.
The afore-mentioned Harriet Harman is a Labor MP who–before the committee even began considering any evidence in the matter–tweeted that BoJo was lying when he said he didn’t believe he’d broken any lockdown rules. Protests that this was evidence of pre-existing bias fell on deaf ears, and the investigation went forward, although taking considerable ill-will and intimations of “kangaroo courts” with it. Not helping were subsequent revelations that two or three others on the committee can also be seen on video, or in social media, enjoying themselves in clear violation of the same rules that they are dinging Boris for ignoring.
Ever since Harman’s report came out, it’s been roundly criticized by Johnson’s allies in the House of Commons, and today, the “Privilege Committee” struck back, criticizing seven Tory MPs for “disturbing” and “unprecedented” attacks on democracy. Particularly singled out were Jacob Rees Mogg, Nadine Dorries, Priti Patel, and Michael Fabricant. In addition to speaking in parliamentary debate, some of them also appeared (shock horror) on television programs to say their piece:
Priti Patel, on GBNews: “I don’t want to name people, but, you know, it is a fact, the lack of transparency – the lack of accountability … I think there is a culture of collusion, quite frankly, involved here.”
Nadine Dorries, on TalkTV: dismissed the findings and accused the committee of trying to “close down” free speech. “They need to grow up and put on their big girl and boy pants and stop crying about hurty words.”
Michael Fabricant questioned the “calibre, malice, and prejudice” of the committee.
And Jacob Rees Mogg (recently knighted) reiterated the “kangeroo court” analogy. He has his own show on GBNews too, so I expect him to repeat the allegation often, as he doesn’t seem inclined to stand down.
Whew. Strong stuff. (I probably should have warned you to cover your ears.)
It’s quite likely that the Privileges Committee will open inquiries into these individuals and a few more, to see if they can be found to be in contempt of Parliament because of their criticism of the committee. If they are, they’ll probably be sanctioned with a suspension. If the suspension is for more than ten days, it’ll require the afore-mentioned special election in their districts, with the likely result at this point that the Tory majority will be further reduced by between four and seven seats at the end of it. (Can you say “Parliamentary Shenanigans?”)
I’ve said for decades that I couldn’t live in today’s UK (a realization I came to on a train journey between Worcester and Shrewsbury, somewhere in the mid-90s). I love it, I miss it, and when I think wistfully of “home” it’s where “home” is. But the intrusive and petty mismanagement of intrusive and petty little people, both those of the permanent “blob” and the meddlers in Westminster and Whitehall who “happily manage the decline” (h/t Dad), as they convince (far more successfully than either similar group is able to do in the US) normal British people in the general population that they are evil and should simply shut up and succumb, just makes me ill.
The NHS is a train wreck. The country’s largest water supplier is about to go belly-up. The train workers, airport workers, nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, customs workers, civil servants, EMTs, teachers, university staff and God-knows who else have been doing rolling strikes for months. There’s barely enough electricity to run the country today, but the coal plants will be shut down the year after next and there’ll be no new internal combustion engine cars after 2030. Illegal migrants are swamping the country and overwhelming the resources of the hospitality industry, whose hotels and motels are being taken over to house them, at the expense of the country’s natives who might like access to such services themselves. The courts are blocking the government at every turn when it comes to actually doing something about them. And all the usual social ills abound and beset as well.
But on a brighter note, the Deputy Prime Minister did get the boot the month before last because he was such a meanie. Oh, the investigation found he never raised his voice, swore, or said anything nasty, but he “rolled his eyes,” and told some employees their work was “woeful.” The report concluded that his conduct might have been seen as “abrasive” by some individuals, but that “it was not intended to be so.” And that his behavior did not rise to the level of “abuse,” nor did it “target” specific individuals. It did, however find him “impatient,” and “fastidious.” And that was enough.
So now he’s gone.
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I wish Nigel Farage all the luck in the world. He’s going to need it. I do wonder, when I open the cupboard door and eye-up my tin-foil hat, whether some of what’s going on with Farage has to do with an oft-expressed thought that he–in his role as Mr. Brexit–and BoJo–still uniquely popular among the deplorable masses–might team up and start a new party. Some might see that as a threat. I wonder.
To Nigel, I (kinda) quote Bret Weinstein: As a Jew, I’ve always known that I might need to run and leave my country. What never occurred to me is that I’d have nowhere to go.
The Left is the evil uniparty of the world.
This is a reminder that the left-dominated press does not believe that its political enemies have civil rights. And a surprisingly large fraction of the liberals I have known have been very comfortable with the un-personing of people who dissent from the party line, be it banning from internet platforms, termination of financial accounts, firing from jobs and blacklisting from professions.
It’s extensively covered in newspapers and on TV in the UK, with varying degrees of credibility and skepticism being assigned to the story as one might expect, given the political leanings of those covering it.
He has an opinion column in today’s Telegraph covering the situation; I don’t know if you’ll be able to get behind the paywall, but the link is here: After my banking travails, I fear Britain is lost. The Telegraph’s main story on the matter is here.
Farage is a pretty well-known presence on Fox and a few other media sites on this side of the pond, and I expect that it’ll show up on the US radar sooner, rather than later.
Sign of the times unfortunately. The only good I can see from this is perhaps a few people will finally wake up.
Daily Mail, no paywall:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247131/Nigel-Farage-claims-bank-accounts-SHUT-claims-took-money-Putins-Russia.html
How would this actually work? Does the bank hand him his money in cash?
Apparently it’s happened to other people or institutions before.
Courtesy Aunty, in 2014:
Or the LA Times:
So it isn’t something new, only something that hasn’t yet been used against this particular political demographic.
In the case of the USA, I’ve heard that these types of surprise bank account closures are possible because of the now 20-year-old Patriot Act. When leftists claim that someone on the right is carrying out violence with their words or deeds, that seems to be enough for big banks to act.
My Telegraph subscription is great value. I presume it’s no more expensive in the USA than in Ireland.
As for this story, this is more revenge of the Remainers. I have heard Farage described as the most successful UK politician of his time, in that he was the main driving force behind Brexit – an outcome achieved through entirely peaceful political means, in the teeth of ferocious opposition from elites of every stripe. And typically these days- the losers in the democratic process won’t accept the outcome.