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{{YouTube|u=femidom|Femi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/lets-take-back-control-of-our-futures-young-campaigner-femi-oluwoles-plan-to-overturn-brexit-a3768721.html|title='Let's take back control of our futures': Young campaigner Femi Oluwole's plan to overturn Brexit|date=2018-02-17|website=standard.co.uk|publisher=[[Evening Standard]]|location=London|first=Robin|last=De Peyer|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/seventy-per-cent-of-young-people-voted-remain-lara-spirit-is-demanding-they-are-heard|year=2019|website=prospectmagazine.co.uk|publisher=[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]| title=Seventy per cent of young people voted Remain—Lara Spirit is demanding they are heard|last=Chappell|first=Peter|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> who had launched an anti-Brexit [[student activism]] movement in universities, was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018.<ref name=ch>{{cite web | title = OUR FUTURE, OUR CHOICE! OFOC! LTD | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610222951/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LXb3FYwZIxN3VGt4viSyIdh1fPE/appointments|archivedate=2019-06-10|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LXb3FYwZIxN3VGt4viSyIdh1fPE/appointments | website = companieshouse.gov.uk|author=Anon|year=2019|publisher=[[Companies House]]|location=London | access-date = 9 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=bbc3>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/23acefe2-fdbe-4346-8c52-b561bfd0b507|title=Why I'm taking a gap year to fight Brexit|last=Ktena|first=Natalie|date=2019-01-28|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=[[BBC]]|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-campaign-youth-young-people-our-future-our-choice-remainers-leave-eu-femi-oluwole-a8208756.html|title=Student campaigning to stop Brexit did an interview on Sky News and it's gone viral|date=2018-02-14|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> 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.<ref name=bbc3/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190329-perspective-femi-oluwole-brexit-fight-keep-uk-european-union-remain|title=Perspective - 'Keep the door open for us': The fight to keep the UK in the EU|date=2019-03-29|website=france24.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> Oluwole has toured the United Kingdom, engaging the general public in discussions about the [[European Union]].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ici-londres.com/lifestyle/1386~femi-oluwole-le-militant-anti-brexit-pour-our-future-our-choice|title=Femi Oluwole, le militant anti-Brexit pour Our Future Our Choice|website=www.ici-londres.com|language=fr|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> He has also supported the call for a [[People's Vote]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/27/big-blue-anti-brexit-bus-pulls-into-westminster-for-parliament-take-over-8183093/|title=Big blue anti-Brexit bus pulls into Westminster for Parliament 'take over'|date=2018-11-27|website=metro.co.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08|first=Jimmy |last=Nsubuga}}</ref>
{{YouTube|u=femidom|Femi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/lets-take-back-control-of-our-futures-young-campaigner-femi-oluwoles-plan-to-overturn-brexit-a3768721.html|title='Let's take back control of our futures': Young campaigner Femi Oluwole's plan to overturn Brexit|date=2018-02-17|website=standard.co.uk|publisher=[[Evening Standard]]|location=London|first=Robin|last=De Peyer|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/seventy-per-cent-of-young-people-voted-remain-lara-spirit-is-demanding-they-are-heard|year=2019|website=prospectmagazine.co.uk|publisher=[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]| title=Seventy per cent of young people voted Remain—Lara Spirit is demanding they are heard|last=Chappell|first=Peter|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> who had launched an anti-Brexit [[student activism]] movement in universities, was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018.<ref name=ch>{{cite web | title = OUR FUTURE, OUR CHOICE! OFOC! LTD | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610222951/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LXb3FYwZIxN3VGt4viSyIdh1fPE/appointments|archivedate=2019-06-10|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LXb3FYwZIxN3VGt4viSyIdh1fPE/appointments | website = companieshouse.gov.uk|author=Anon|year=2019|publisher=[[Companies House]]|location=London | access-date = 9 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=bbc3>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/23acefe2-fdbe-4346-8c52-b561bfd0b507|title=Why I'm taking a gap year to fight Brexit|last=Ktena|first=Natalie|date=2019-01-28|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=[[BBC]]|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-campaign-youth-young-people-our-future-our-choice-remainers-leave-eu-femi-oluwole-a8208756.html|title=Student campaigning to stop Brexit did an interview on Sky News and it's gone viral|date=2018-02-14|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> 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.<ref name=bbc3/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190329-perspective-femi-oluwole-brexit-fight-keep-uk-european-union-remain|title=Perspective - 'Keep the door open for us': The fight to keep the UK in the EU|date=2019-03-29|website=france24.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> Oluwole has toured the United Kingdom, engaging the general public in discussions about the [[European Union]].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ici-londres.com/lifestyle/1386~femi-oluwole-le-militant-anti-brexit-pour-our-future-our-choice|title=Femi Oluwole, le militant anti-Brexit pour Our Future Our Choice|website=www.ici-londres.com|language=fr|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> He has also supported the call for a [[People's Vote]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/27/big-blue-anti-brexit-bus-pulls-into-westminster-for-parliament-take-over-8183093/|title=Big blue anti-Brexit bus pulls into Westminster for Parliament 'take over'|date=2018-11-27|website=metro.co.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08|first=Jimmy |last=Nsubuga}}</ref>


Oluwole is regularly in the media discussing Brexit, focusing on the details of [[European Union law]] and [[Immigration policy|immigration policies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/femi-oluwole-debates-brexit-party-activist-1-6015344|year=2019|title='Nigel Farage IS racist': Femi schools Brexit Party activist|last=Jankowicz|first=Mia|website=theneweuropean.co.uk|publisher=The New European|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/trixie-sanderson-and-femi-oluwole-on-sky-news-1-6008648|title='Stop the fake news' - former Farage adviser slammed for immigration mistruths in TV interview|last=Read|first=Jonathon|year=2019|website=theneweuropean.co.uk|publisher=[[The New European]]|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> Oluwole has written for ''[[The Independent]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/author/femi-oluwole|title=Femi Oluwole|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/brexit-partys-toxic-rhetoric-leave-voters-drink-chucked|title=The Brexit party's toxic rhetoric doesn't represent most leave voters|last=Oluwole|first=Femi|date=2019-05-22|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|website=theguardian.com|access-date=2019-06-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and the ''[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/author/femi-oluwole/|title=Femi Oluwole|website=metro.co.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> and is a regular guest on [[Talkradio|talkRADIO]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talkradio.co.uk/femi-oluwole|title=Femi Oluwole|website=talkradio.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/ian-payne/femi-oluwole-concerned-nigel-farage-eu-election/|title=Femi Oluwole "Definitely Worried" Nigel Farage Will Win European Elections|website=LBC}}</ref>
Oluwole is regularly in the media discussing Brexit, focusing on the details of [[European Union law]] and [[Immigration policy|immigration policies]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/femi-oluwole-debates-brexit-party-activist-1-6015344|year=2019|title='Nigel Farage IS racist': Femi schools Brexit Party activist|last=Jankowicz|first=Mia|website=theneweuropean.co.uk|publisher=The New European|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/trixie-sanderson-and-femi-oluwole-on-sky-news-1-6008648|title='Stop the fake news' - former Farage adviser slammed for immigration mistruths in TV interview|last=Read|first=Jonathon|year=2019|website=theneweuropean.co.uk|publisher=[[The New European]]|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> In April 2019, he appeared on ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'', explaining European Union law to [[Richard Madeley]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indy100.com/article/brexit-news-latest-femi-oluwole-peoples-vote-customs-union-eu-good-morning-britain-8880851|title=Anti-Brexit campaigner perfectly sums up the difference between the Customs Union and the EU|date=2019-04-22|website=indy100.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-08|first=Narjas |last=Zatat}}</ref> Oluwole has written for ''[[The Independent]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/author/femi-oluwole|title=Femi Oluwole|website=independent.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/22/brexit-partys-toxic-rhetoric-leave-voters-drink-chucked|title=The Brexit party's toxic rhetoric doesn't represent most leave voters|last=Oluwole|first=Femi|date=2019-05-22|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|website=theguardian.com|access-date=2019-06-07|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and the ''[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/author/femi-oluwole/|title=Femi Oluwole|website=metro.co.uk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> and is a regular guest on [[Talkradio|talkRADIO]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talkradio.co.uk/femi-oluwole|title=Femi Oluwole|website=talkradio.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/ian-payne/femi-oluwole-concerned-nigel-farage-eu-election/|title=Femi Oluwole "Definitely Worried" Nigel Farage Will Win European Elections|website=LBC}}</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>
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>

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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.[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]

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. ^ 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.
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