UK banks may be required to protect free speech in new rules reportedly being drawn up by the government after the publication of evidence that Brexit leader Nigel Farage was debanked for his political views.
He said on Thursday: “… if the money in those accounts is used for illegal purposes, then yes, sure, that’s something to act on. But the idea that Nigel was essentially cast out, simply because of the views he held and has expressed publicly, I think the word that the Home Secretary used was ‘sinister’.
“That’s a sinister development, that’s something we haven’t seen, and I think it’s something that we should fight to prevent spreading.”, Nigel Farage said he had blown the whistle on a banking system which had already ‘debanked’ a great number of people “who don’t have a platform… who have been closed out, and that’s really awful”.
He said: “…if we don’t nip this in the bud, who the hell is going to go into public life in Britain? If your family [are going to be debanked], that really is a price too high for going into politics, or a senior position in the judiciary, or whatever it is. I’ve been aware for some years now that thousands of people are being shut down by the banks, particularly people taking cash, as they want to drive us towards a cashless society”.
Mr Farage urged anyone who had been debanked to take the action he had, by making a Subject Access Request, a legal demand on institutions to release the data they hold on you. Nigel Farage Warns of Cashless Society ‘Tyranny’ as UK Treasury Chief Latest to Have Bank Account Blocked
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