Nigel Farage may be forced into his own personal Brexit after his UK bank accounts were closed with no explanation, leading the Reform Party chief and GB News broadcaster to suggest he now faces so much political persecution that he may have to seek refuge overseas.
Farage was told his accounts would be closed this week, and offered only the explanation of a “commercial decision” by his bank’s chairman. The Brexit leader says this is a political attack by Britain’s political establishment, and comes just as the award-winning TV host mooted a political comeback.
Farage even says he has approached seven banks looking for an alternative, but not one has allowed him to open an account: “This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system,” he argues:
“The banks themselves are part of the big corporate structures in this country, these are the organizations [which] did not want Brexit to happen, and I think in my case, the corporate world will never ever forgive me… I am the one who is to carry the blame.”
“Without a bank account, you effectively become a non-person, you don’t actually exist. It’s like the worst regimes in the mid-twentieth century, be they in Russia or Germany: you literally become a non-person,” Farage explains, adding, “I won’t really be able to exist and function in a modern twenty-first century Britain.”
“I’m beginning to think perhaps life in the United Kingdom is becoming completely unliveable because of the levels of prejudice against me,” Farage concludes.”
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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
