Nigel Farage that ultimate symbol of smug, white middle-class respectability,
has his bank account closed.
Cue a national wave of media sympathy and approbation.
And straight away the politicians are in action
we had the Chancellor of the Exchequer saying they'll be an immediate review,
and then the Prime Minister Sunak says it's vital to protect freedom of speech
and not allow bank accounts to be closed
what hypocrites.
I watched all of this with complete disbelief,
I've been exposing for about a decade the identical situation,
regarding British Muslims and their bank accounts closed.
And do you know not one of those stories was ever followed up
in the mainstream media.
Complete total radio silence without explanation
and with desperate personal consequences.
I had people who wept describing the humiliation of it
and the consequences for their own families
I've spoken to people whose charities have been wiped out.
Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, the Finsbury Park Mosque,
very respectable organisation in Islington North London.
The mainstream media totally ignored the story I often pressed journalists
friends of mine in the media please run something about it.
The Uyghur Campaign to stop the cultural genocide in China
they couldn't move money around the globe.
I rang up Financial journalists I knew and said you must write about it, nope.
My conclusion is I can really only be one answer it was Muslims.
British Muslims for the most part who were having their bank accounts removed
and of course British Muslims don't count whereas when Nigel Farage
has his bank account removed that's headlines in the mainstream media
and cue a wave of sycophantic sob stories
columnists coming into action to say poor Nigel.
When I learned that British Muslims were having their bank accounts closed without
explanation I was then the chief political commentator on The Daily Telegraph.
and I thought this was an important story.
I wrote it up I then went to the telegraph said please I think
you should run this story and they said they would
and then they didn't they kept on fobbing me off with excuses and it turned out in the end
I discovered it's because they didn't want to offend one of their largest advertisers HSBC
Bank it was an abusive Power by the Banks so I felt I had an obligation not just to write
the story but just trying do something about it well first of all I bumped into George Osborne
who was then the chancellor of exchecker the man in charge of money in Britain he listened
to me politely but that was that then I got in touch with treasury Minister Harriet Baldwin
who had the kind of portfolio dealing with this kind of matter at the treasury I went
into the treasury briefed her at length she was completely bored by it did absolutely nothing
about it there was one politician who respond took all of this seriously it's a man called
Jeremy corbyn who is now being a obliterated by the media political class but he took up
the cause of Finsbury Park Mosque separate from me because they were in his constituency
and he went to chsbc bank he was the only politician in Britain who took this matter
seriously none of the organizations I I spoke to or individuals were connected to terrorism
had they been connected to terrorism they would have been arrested and in jail but they were
Muslims politically active Muslims which meant that they were very easy to smear as part of the
general scenery almost of the war on terror which was launched by George W bush and Tony Blair at
the turn of the century after 9 11. so if you're a Muslim you are automatically a suspect and you go
on these lists many of them are secret lists you don't know that they exists it's very Sinister and
it's exactly why we need politicians to deal with they make sure that particular sections of our
Community are not treated unfairly and the current generation of politicians in Britain have shown no
interest in doing that until Nigel farage appeared on the scene we have to respect people's right to
free speech and that should not be an excuse to close anyone's account and that's not what
we would expect well welcome to the world which has been lived in by British Muslims throughout
the war on terror the Muslims in Britain are the Canary and the mind nobody minded at least
of all Nigel farage when their bank accounts were being closed down with no reason given but when
it happens 10 years later to the comfortable English middle class that becomes a national
Scandal now it's worth reflecting on this at the moment under both the conservative government and
actually supported by the labor opposition we have the biggest attack on individual liberties freedom
of speech and the independence of institutions in modern British history this is tested first
of all on Muslims and then only Unleashed later on the rest of the population at the end the moral of
all of this is that we should look after all our community I think that there's been an enormous
selfishness in our society which is only people who are politically empowered have rights a lot
of people in our community the very poor certain minorities have now been stripped of their rights
we have a common Humanity as citizens of of Britain and we should remember that
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