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In an interview with [[Piers Morgan]] on [[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]], Oluwole stated that President [[Donald Trump]] of the United States was a "hostile foreign power" to the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-HLeTXFME4|title=Should Sir Kim Darroch Resign as British Ambassador to the United States?|website=[[YouTube]]|date=2019-07-09|publisher=[[Good Morning Britain]]|location=London|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
In an interview with [[Piers Morgan]] on [[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]], Oluwole stated that President [[Donald Trump]] of the United States was a "hostile foreign power" to the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-HLeTXFME4|title=Should Sir Kim Darroch Resign as British Ambassador to the United States?|website=[[YouTube]]|date=2019-07-09|publisher=[[Good Morning Britain]]|location=London|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
=== Abuse ===
Oluwole has been the subject of abuse from Leavers.<ref name=":1" /> For example, [[Leave.EU]] campaigner [[Andy Wigmore]] tweeted:

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|text=“Have you eaten [[Diane Abbott]] Femi? You sound like her, you have a grasp of numbers second only to her AND you even look like her, although you have much more of glowing complexion.”
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Niall McCrea, a lecturer in [[mental health nursing]] at [[King's College London]], called Oluwole "treacherous scum" at a Brexit rally in [[Kensington (Olympia) station|Kensington Olympia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thetab.com/uk/kings/2019/05/23/kcl-lecturer-calls-remainer-a-fcking-traitor-and-pokes-him-with-flagpole-25247|title=KCL lecturer calls remainer a 'f*cking traitor' and pokes him with flagpole|website=thetab.com|first=Eirian |last=Jane Prosser|year=2019|publisher=[[The Tab]]|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/kings-college-london-probe-after-senior-lecturer-in-mental-health-filmed-poking-remain-campaigner-a4149331.html|title=King's probe after academic 'pokes Remainer with Union Jack flagpole'|date=2019-05-23|website=standard.co.uk|publisher=Evening Standard|location=London|first=Ella|last=Wills|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref>

== References ==
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Revision as of 15:09, 24 July 2019

Femi Oluwole
Oluwole speaking at Birmingham's Bin-Brexit rally in 2018
BornMarch 1990 (age 34)[1]
Darlington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
EmployerOur Future Our Choice
Websiteofoc.co.uk/40

Femi Oluwole (born 1990)[1] is a British political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group, Our Future Our Choice (OFOC).[2]

Early life and education

Oluwole was born in Darlington to a surgeon father and a paediatrician mother, who both emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1980s.[3][4][5] He grew up in the West Midlands but as a child lived in several different places across the country, having once attended a school in Dundee.[6][7] He attended the Yarm School, and went on to study law and the French language at the University of Nottingham, while completing an Erasmus Programme year in France.[8][4][2]

Career

Oluwole has worked in non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and human rights agencies.[2] He left his "dream job" to become a campaigner against Brexit, telling the Evening Standard that he made the decision to quit because he was frustrated by the efforts of mainstream pro-Remain politicians and planned to provide accurate pro-EU information by explaining difficult legal concepts using Twitter[9] and YouTube.[2][6][10][11] In pursuing this, Oluwole created the social media channel Our Future Our Choice in September 2017, which, with the collaboration of Will Dry and Lara Spirit,[12] who had launched an anti-Brexit student activism movement in universities, was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018.[1][4][13][14] The group advocates a pro-EU message from a youth standpoint and claims that it will be the younger generation who will have to deal with the economic and political crisis that results from Brexit.[13][15] Oluwole has toured the United Kingdom, engaging the general public in discussions about the European Union.[6][16] He has also supported the call for a People's Vote.[17]

Oluwole is regularly in the media discussing Brexit, focusing on the details of European Union law and immigration policies to argue his case and catch out those misunderstanding or ignorant of the inner workings of the European Union.[18][19] In April 2019, he appeared on Good Morning Britain, explaining European Union law to Richard Madeley.[20] Oluwole has written for The Independent,[21] The Guardian,[22] and the Metro,[23] and is a regular guest on talkRADIO.[24][25]

In an interview with Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, Oluwole stated that President Donald Trump of the United States was a "hostile foreign power" to the United Kingdom.[26]

Abuse

Oluwole has been the subject of abuse from Leavers.[3] For example, Leave.EU campaigner Andy Wigmore tweeted:

“Have you eaten Diane Abbott Femi? You sound like her, you have a grasp of numbers second only to her AND you even look like her, although you have much more of glowing complexion.”

— Andy Wigmore, Evening Standard[27]

Niall McCrea, a lecturer in mental health nursing at King's College London, called Oluwole "treacherous scum" at a Brexit rally in Kensington Olympia.[28][29]

References

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2019). "OUR FUTURE, OUR CHOICE! OFOC! LTD". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2019-06-10. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Mawardi, Adam (2019-04-26). "Exclusive interview: We met the Nottingham Uni law grad trying to stop Brexit". legalcheek.com. Legal Cheek. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  3. ^ a b Machell, Ben (2018-08-18). "Femi Oluwole interview: 'In just three years we will have a population that voted Remain'". thetimes.co.uk. The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. ^ a b c Toma, Costanza de (2019-01-04). "Femi Oluwole, the leader of the Europeanist movement that wants to stop Brexit". NuoveRadici.World (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  5. ^ McTeirnan, Anthea (2016). "Diversity of opinion on Brexit manifest on Birmingham's streets". irishtimes.com. The Irish Times. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  6. ^ a b c "Femi Oluwole at Our Future Our Choice". ofoc.co.uk. Our Future Our Choice. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  7. ^ "38. Femi Oluwole; Anti-Brexit Campaigner on Nigel Farage, Chips in Brussels, Wealth v Poverty in Nigeria and a French Summer of Love". thebigtravelpodcast.com. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  8. ^ Brown, Mike (2018-03-11). "Anti-Brexit Femi thinks leaving EU is a disaster for young people". gazettelive.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  9. ^ Femi Sorry on X Edit this at Wikidata
  10. ^ Femi's channel on YouTube
  11. ^ De Peyer, Robin (2018-02-17). "'Let's take back control of our futures': Young campaigner Femi Oluwole's plan to overturn Brexit". standard.co.uk. London: Evening Standard. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  12. ^ Chappell, Peter (2019). "Seventy per cent of young people voted Remain—Lara Spirit is demanding they are heard". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Prospect. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  13. ^ a b Ktena, Natalie (2019-01-28). "Why I'm taking a gap year to fight Brexit". bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  14. ^ "Student campaigning to stop Brexit did an interview on Sky News and it's gone viral". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  15. ^ "Perspective - 'Keep the door open for us': The fight to keep the UK in the EU". france24.com. 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  16. ^ "Femi Oluwole, le militant anti-Brexit pour Our Future Our Choice". www.ici-londres.com (in French). Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  17. ^ Nsubuga, Jimmy (2018-11-27). "Big blue anti-Brexit bus pulls into Westminster for Parliament 'take over'". metro.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  18. ^ Jankowicz, Mia (2019). "'Nigel Farage IS racist': Femi schools Brexit Party activist". theneweuropean.co.uk. The New European. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  19. ^ Read, Jonathon (2019). "'Stop the fake news' - former Farage adviser slammed for immigration mistruths in TV interview". theneweuropean.co.uk. The New European. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  20. ^ Zatat, Narjas (2019-04-22). "Anti-Brexit campaigner perfectly sums up the difference between the Customs Union and the EU". indy100.com. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  21. ^ "Femi Oluwole". independent.co.uk. The Independent. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  22. ^ Oluwole, Femi (2019-05-22). "The Brexit party's toxic rhetoric doesn't represent most leave voters". theguardian.com. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  23. ^ "Femi Oluwole". metro.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  24. ^ "Femi Oluwole". talkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  25. ^ "Femi Oluwole "Definitely Worried" Nigel Farage Will Win European Elections". LBC.
  26. ^ "Should Sir Kim Darroch Resign as British Ambassador to the United States?". YouTube. London: Good Morning Britain. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
  27. ^ White, Megan (2019-05-31). "Leave campaigner sparks race row for 'looks like Diane Abbott' comment". standard.co.uk. London: Evening Standard. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  28. ^ Jane Prosser, Eirian (2019). "KCL lecturer calls remainer a 'f*cking traitor' and pokes him with flagpole". thetab.com. The Tab. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  29. ^ Wills, Ella (2019-05-23). "King's probe after academic 'pokes Remainer with Union Jack flagpole'". standard.co.uk. London: Evening Standard. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
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