I’ve hardly ever if at all written about Nigel Farage. Still, whatever his views about whatever — even on Brexit - should matter nought to his bank. I can’t imagine, when I was banking with the NAB in Oz back in the sixties, that they cared two jots about my Vietnam war views. Nor should they have. Nor should any bank today. But they do. And it’s wrong.
Here’s a thing I don’t get: that those on the Left quickly supported Farage’s Debanking. Because they hated him. Even said “he has views that should not be allowed” (tho goodness knows what those might be, even as he pushed Brexit and has robust views on illegal immigration).
Yet the Left see no principle at stake. Or if they do, are quite willing to jettison it, because they find Farage horrid. Whereas on the Right plenty of people have said that if the oleaginous Owen Jones were debanked they would speak against it. And I know they would. It’s a principle. We should not deprive anyone of a basic right like banking — or telephones, or water, or electricity, or food — because we don’t agree with their political views.
