Former Brexit party leader Nigel Farage wrote an editorial detailing the political discrimination he has faced at the hands of banking systems across the U.K.
“We are living through the politicisation of our corporate sector. Woe betide you if you do not conform with its worldview,” Farage wrote.
He described that he was recently “told by my bank [since 1980] that it is closing all my accounts without explanation. It is impossible to function without a bank account,” adding, “It should alarm everybody that a bank has the power to punish those it considers to have erred or strayed.”
Farage noted that other conservative leaders have faced the same difficulty.
“For years, I have been falsely accused of having financial links to Russian funding. Even though this is nonsense, MPs have used parliamentary privilege to accuse various people associated with the Brexit campaign of the same thing,” Farage wrote, describing what he believes to be the justification banks used against his account.
Farage continued, “Last year, the Labour MP Sir Chris Bryant claimed in the Commons chamber that I received £548,573 in one calendar year “from the Russian state.”
“Despite my pleas to him and the Speaker to correct this assertion,” Farage noted, “there has been no retraction.”
Reporting from PJ Media:
Since the Left marched through all the institutions, they now work in concert to destroy political enemies. The resultant persecution of pro-liberty leaders (and their loved ones, associates, and defenders) is evident around the globe: Nigel Farage has been falsely accused and de-banked in England; Donald Trump is endlessly de-platformed and persecuted in the U.S.; Former President Jair Bolsonaro — “the Trump of Brazil” — was convicted of nonsense abuse-of-power charges and banned from running for office for eight years; and endless “corruption” charges, year after year, are leveled at Israel’s on-again-off-again Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The list goes on and on.
