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The Brendan O'Neill Show

241: Nigel Farage: Why I’m taking on the banks

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Farage – GB News presenter and former Brexit Party leader – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his battle with Coutts and the terrifying scale of ‘debanking’. Plus, Farage gives his reaction to the latest indictment against Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

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0:37.3

I began to realise actually what is happening to me through this bank is not isolated.

0:43.7

It's actually run right through the banking industry. It's been encouraged. We've got a state

0:50.0

of deep politicisation. This was happening to thousands of people. You cannot live,

0:55.6

exist, and survive in the 21st century without a bank account. It is as essential, frankly,

1:02.6

as electricity and water, and I thought in the end, assembly has got to blow the lid off this.

1:12.4

Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest

1:17.1

this week, Nigel Farage. Nigel, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to be back with you,

1:21.5

it really is. It's great to have you back on, especially yet this moment in time when you

1:26.8

really are making waves and waves that really need to be made. Listeners will be familiar,

1:32.1

of course, with the whole debanking phenomenon with your extraordinary mistreatment by Cootsbank

1:37.9

who booted you out. We now know it was for political reasons, even though they originally denied

1:43.2

that and said it was just a financial decision. You've taken up arms against debanking and against

1:50.0

the woke persecution of people by big banks, businesses, corporations, and so on. Let's get into

1:56.5

all of that. I want to kick off by asking you what it was like when you found out that Coots

2:01.9

was going to do this to you. What did that feel like? In some ways, it's a sign of the times,

2:06.5

but it must be quite startling and disturbing when it happens to you as an individual.

2:10.9

I was first aware of this phenomenon and the political application of debanking with my close

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