Nigel Farage warns Americans that the banks are coming after their accounts too
Nigel Farage has issued a warning to the US that the banks throughout the Atlantic might be following the identical ways as their British counterparts and shutting accounts for political causes.
Having lifted the lid on the scandal in Britain, Mr Farage pointed to the case of the outstanding medic Dr Joseph Mercola who is facing being “de-banked” by Chase Bank in America for questioning US authorities insurance policies on Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The considerations about woke company tradition infecting US life come after Mr Farage launched his accountclosed.org web site and marketing campaign after revealing that around 1,000 accounts in Britain are being closed a day by banks for political causes and due to a harsh interpretation of cash laundering guidelines.
Tonight it has been reported that Coutts financial institution, a part of the NatWest group, is in talks with Mr Farage about not closing his accounts.
But the row has claimed the scalps of NatWest chief government Dame Alison Rose, who leaked non-public monetary details about Mr Farage to the BBC, and Coutts chief government Peter Flavel.
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Speaking completely, to the Daily Express, Mr Farage mentioned: “The issue of de-banking in the UK that has been exposed over the last few weeks week is nothing short of a national scandal.
“My electronic mail inbox has been inundated with tales of woe from members of the general public who really feel helpless and are in real misery over the best way they’ve been handled by the massive banks.
“The backlash to all of this is starting to make the banking industry run scared — and so it should. Banks should go back to providing banking services, and not become moral arbiters for the ‘accepted’ political and social ‘values’ of the day.
“I’ve launched a brand new marketing campaign in Britain, accountclosed.org, which is able to search to search out out the true extent and scale of the issue, and discover out which monetary establishments are the worst offenders.
“We can then use this information to lobby parliament and affect real change.”
With a stark warning to the US, he added: “In America, the case of Dr Mercola and others is extreme and alarming. He is entitled to his views on medicine and the Covid-19 vaccine without having his bank account taken away.
“He says they’ve even finished the identical to his employees, and members of their household, too.
“This clear overreach clearly has to stop, on both sides of the pond. Over the last few days it has made me wonder — do we need a US campaign too?”
Criticism of lockdown and compelled vaccines had been among the many objects collated in a 36-page doc about Mr Farage once they selected political grounds to cancel his accounts.
Dame Alison had briefed that he had fallen beneath the wealth threshold however NatWest has since been compelled to confess {that a} main a part of the explanation was political.
Since Mr Farage went public different political events corresponding to Laurence Fox’s Reclaim and Gina Miller’s pro-EU Truth and Fair Party, have revealed they had been de-banked.
A lot of politicians have been caught up within the scandal together with Energy Secretary Grant Shapps.