The Free Speech Union has won its biggest ever legal victory at the Employment Tribunal, securing significant damages for Carl Borg-Neal, a dyslexic Lloyds bank manager who was sacked following a workplace free speech row. The Telegraph has more.
Carl Borg-Neal can’t get out his words. Tears fall down his cheeks and he is overcome by an involuntary verbal tic, as if he is choking or has momentarily forgotten how to speak. He is 59 years old and out of work, having been sacked by his employer, Lloyds Bank, for inadvertently blurting out the N word during an anti-racism training session.
An employment tribunal ruled that Lloyds had unfairly dismissed Mr Borg-Neal and discriminated against him on account of his dyslexia, which leads him to “spurt things out before he loses his train of thought”. He has been awarded damages of almost £500,000 – combined with Lloyds’ legal costs, and tax, the bank faces a bill close to £1 million.
The cash is of some comfort to Mr Borg-Neal, a vindication of his campaign to clear his name. What he really wanted, however, was his old job back and he wishes the bank would simply say sorry for sacking him. Without the apology, the allegation that he is racist hangs over his head.
“It is kind of a double-edged sword. When I set out on this legal claim, I said to my mum: ‘If I have to sell my house, I don’t care because this is about clearing my name. Lloyds were calling me racist and that is certainly something I am not and something I have never been,” said Mr Borg-Neal, who is also a Conservative councillor in his local borough council in Andover, Hants.
After a career spanning 30 years with Lloyds and its affiliates, Mr Borg-Neal believes that the bank has treated him like a “pariah” – he was told not to contact former colleagues and friends in the aftermath of that fateful training session on July 16 2021. It has taken Mr Borg-Neal more than two years to win his compensation through a courtroom ordeal that, at one stage, risked him facing financial ruin.
“I feel very discriminated against,” he said. “I often wonder if I wasn’t a white middle-aged male would I have had to go through everything I went through. There is no way of telling. But when I talk to my friends – and as you can imagine a good many are white, middle-aged and male – we all agree that is the worst thing you can be right now. You are bottom of everything.”
The employment tribunal vindicated Mr Borg-Neal in a 46-page judgment that raises serious questions about how major institutions such as Lloyds Bank tackle “very sensitive issues” that arise during diversity training.
It was about an hour into the online training session – attended virtually by about 100 Lloyds managers – during a discussion about “intent vs effect” that Mr Borg-Neal asked how to handle a situation should he hear someone from an ethnic minority use a word that would be offensive if used by someone not of the same ethnicity. When the trainer did not appear to understand the question, Mr Borg-Neal said by way of explanation: “The most common example being [the] use of the N word in the black community.”
“Unfortunately,” pointed out the tribunal, “the claimant used the full word rather than the abbreviation.”
The bank accepted the comment was made without malice and that the question was valid. The employment judge said Mr Borg-Neal’s dyslexia was a “strong factor causing how he expressed himself in a session and in his use of the full word rather than finding a means to avoid it”.
The trainer was left “badly distressed” and took almost a week off work. But some colleagues at the training session questioned her reaction. According to one attendant, Mr Borg-Neal was ”very much reprimanded in front of us all and when [he] tried to apologise or explain he was threatened with ‘you will be thrown off the course’”.
Another said: “I was shocked by the manner and tone used by one presenter to a colleague. After saying at the beginning this would be a safe environment and it is acknowledged we may make mistakes, she launched into a vitriolic attack. Whilst I do not condone what the colleague said … I believe he was trying to ask a valid question to aid understanding.”
Mr Borg-Neal was taken aback by the trainer’s reaction. “She immediately went mad,” said Mr Borg-Neal, “I immediately tried to apologise. I said I didn’t mean to upset anybody. I tried to reword the question but she was just shouting at me. She was basically telling me to be quiet and if I didn’t shut up I would be thrown off the course. I bit the bullet and went quiet.”
He remembers his feelings at the time, a mixture of “upset and anger” – upset that he had caused distress and angry that the trainer had “dealt with it in such an aggressive way”.
A complaint reached Lloyds HR team and disciplinary procedures activated, although Mr Borg-Neal was never suspended and – as he points out – he continued to mentor two junior colleagues from ethnic minority backgrounds until his final dismissal in December 2021, prompting his lengthy legal battle for justice.
Worth reading in full.
It goes without saying that everyone at the FSU is delighted that Carl has been able to obtain justice. Not only did he lose a job where he’d found he could excel, in spite of his disability, but during the initial, unnecessarily lengthy disciplinary process and the legal battle that followed his mental and physical health deteriorated. He now suffers back pain brought on by the stress and takes two pills a day for the anxiety, including a sleeping pill to get him through the night.
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Party time: John Campbell.
Find the link for yourself, but I see a good man falling! I have no idea how to contact JOHN Campbell but he needs our help!
Link:
https://youtu.be/YwOpkwU1yx4
John campbell needs all our help now!
What on earth are you on about Dinger?
JOHN CAMPBELL needs our help!
Why? Is his channel being taken down? Are the police after him? Have TPTB chucked him in a cell with Julian Assange?
He’s rightfully angry, like the rest of us but he doesn’t appear to face any particular peril, unless you know something the rest of us don’t?
Does anyone know how to contact Dr john campbell?
I had a look at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOpkwU1yx4 – ‘Party time’ which you mentioned. There were 7230 comments on it in YT around 07:45 today. If one comments he will end up with incoming mail for each one, if his YT setup is the same as my own (it’s not under the same name as this place).
Anyway, according to his YT site, to which I subscribe, he does have this address for “business enquires”: campbellteaching@hotmail.com under his Description.
Just give me a number for john
Richard vobes , same thing ! This is the best of us!
I don’t think I can face another few years of hearing about the “Covid inquiry”,
I vote that DS ignores it. Like everything else about Covid, it’s just theatre. Dear covidians, prove there was a pandemic. Can’t? Then you can F off.
The DS are still doing articles about masks after 3 years so I’m not confident your wish will be granted tbh, although I do share your views about this particular farcical pantomime.
Wholly agree Mogs. What have we got coming up?
Pandemic Preparedness Treaty
Revised International Health Regulations
CBDC
Digital ID
Fifteen minute cities
Rampant inflation
Rampant immigration by soldier age young men
Collapsing Health services
Ballooning excess mortality which some people…erm…believe is linked to some…erm…cough… dangerous injections
Grotesque fuel price inflation alongside a collapsing fuel supply industry
Attacks on food and farming and the push for synthetic foods
Online Harms Bill
Billy’s next Pandemic
What have we got today? Masks.
This news item can be placed in the NR certainly but it does not warrant a full piece ATL.
Also:
attacks on free speech
attacks on individual liberties e.g. motoring
attacks on farming and landscape
And general attacks on the human race, society, and LIFE itself. Everything that is being rolled out seems, to me at least, anti-life. It is a death cult. Nothing is about nurturing, inspiring, lifting up, and nourishing the human soul but in constricting and restricting it, stifling its expression, weakening it, confining it and suffocating it. Of course, out in normieland I would be called a madman and a conspiracy theorist for expressing such views but I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.
“anti-life… I would challenge anyone to argue the alternative position.”
There is none Aethelred. This is what we are up against.
Exactamondo huxtable. It’s up to me, thee and any other willing peeps to keep on sharing to plug the gaps. It’s all we can do. The mask issue was exhausted back in early 2021 tops, in my opinion.
With you as always Mogs. 👍
They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals
Fine. Serve them their food in a bowl on the floor and make them take a shit in next doors garden. Kids aren’t stupid. If you let them take the piss, they will. Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.
“Truly baffled by what mindset the teachers have to permit this to happen.”
Not really. For the teachers signed up to this woke / alphabet crap the whole caboodle is a goldmine:
Teacher wins brownie points for a “cat” student
Teacher absolved from teaching said student – she can’t very well teach a cat
Teacher will play the “I’m not a vet card”
Teacher will be taken out of the classroom for special meetings about ‘the cat”
Teacher gains her 15 minutes of fame
And best of all Teacher can ignore the rest of her students.
It’s a marvellous opportunity 😀
NP I totally agree. I watched this and realised I might have done this at 7 or 9 if I’d have thought of it. But teachers had more common sense then and would have done what you said and I’d have been mocked by my peers.
This is a really good 20min documentary explaining all about the ideologies and sexual grooming which is going on in schools and being pushed on kids in the form of ”education”. It also covers why parents are being kept in the dark ( ”copyright” my arse! ) about it and the agenda driving the insanity. Highly recommended. I think it should be shared as all parents need to be aware of this. It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA07ta2tJpQ&ab_channel=ReclaimTheMedia
Since when couldn’t you view teaching materials due to “copyright”? Used to be known as textbooks!
Parents have a right to know what their children are being taught. B*ll*cks to this copyright argument – seeing copyrighted material is not abusing the copyright. It’s nonsense.
“It’s also been out for a year so not sure why I’m just seeing it now tbh;”
It’s because you are an investigator.
Detective Mogs.
😀👍
A jabbed Robbie Williams over here playing at PinkPop, lacking stamina and struggling to get through songs, blaming ”Long Covid”. What a nob. We weren’t born yesterday, Robbie.
”British singer Robbie Williams was forced to stop singing only a few songs into his set at the PinkPop festival in the Netherlands on Sunday, saying he was exhausted from Long Covid.
Before moving onto his song Monsoon, the 49-year-old asked his band to pause, saying ‘No, stop stop. I’m f**ked. I’m f**ked.’ ‘It’s long Covid, I’ve got long Covid. It’s not my f**king age, you f**kers,’ told his audience on the Landgraaf country estate.
After a short pause, Williams went on to perform 16 other numbers, including hits such as Angels and Rock DJ. However, Dutch media reported that Williams appeared out of sorts for the rest of the set.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/06/robbie-williams-blames-long-covid-for-pinkpop-show-problems/
Also Robbie Williams;
”Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have had their first COVID-19 vaccines.
Ayda, 41, documented her and her husband’s trip to the vaccination centre in Los Angeles on social media.
The beauty posted a clip of herself and Robbie, in which she asked the singer: “What’s happening?”
To which the ‘Let Me Entertain You’ hitmaker replied: “We’re about to get vaccinated.”
Ayda also branded her posts with Instagram’s ‘let’s get vaccinated’ sticker in a bid to encourage her followers to get the jab.”
https://www.dailylocal.com/2021/04/16/robbie-williams-and-ayda-field-get-first-covid-19-vaccines-2/
What a bloody idiot.
He’s got no sympathy from me.
Funny how the “despicable” teacher failed to notice that “cat” is not a gender. Or if it is, presumably so is “hydrogen.”
Update on the Hotez/Rogan/Kennedy debate – charity pot now standing at over $2.6 million.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1670631890288619522
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/16/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-introduction/
I am absolutely delighted to see Iain Davis’s work featured in the NR because in my opinion he is one of our foremost investigative reporters. And of course Off-G itself which is a cracking news site.
This from Iain’s article:
“For the 2020/21 financial year the BBC claims that it received £3.8 billion in license fees and more than £1.5 billion in other income—direct government funding, etc.—giving it an annual budget of more than £5.3 billion. It also operates its own “charity,” called BBC Media Action, which spreads BBC propaganda and disinformation globally.
BBC Media Action was supported in 2022 with “charitable—tax deductible—donations” from, among others, USAID (the CIA), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office—by far its biggest donor—the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN).
Unsurprisingly, the BBC license fee is currently set by the UK government. Nearly 30% of the BBC’s operational costs are directly funded by the UK government and its “charitable” operations are exclusively funded by a global public-private partnership between the UK government, other governments, global philanthropic foundations, intelligence agencies and supranational intergovernmental organisations.”
Notwithstanding the above the BBC is of course ‘independent.” 😀😀
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/20/deconstructing-marianna-in-conspiracyland-part-1/
The link provided in the NR is Iain’s introduction to what will be a three part series. My link above is to Part 1.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-on-earth-is-the-covid-inquiry-demanding-that-attendees-take-trash-lateral-flow-tests/
Introduction to a six-part series. Links embedded.
Read just this intro. And weep.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/politicians-weve-never-had-it-so-bad/
An absolutely blistering take-down of our politicians and the vicious sarcasm is wonderful:
“First, we had John Major, who signed the Maastricht Treaty without any democratic mandate. His ‘Back to Basics’ campaign in support of traditional family values came unstuck when it turned out he was partial to a Currie.
Then came Tony Blair, who signed the Lisbon Treaty, also without a mandate, and became known as Tony B Liar for his monstrous lies about weapons of mass destruction which led directly to the invasion of Iraq and the end of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Strangely, Blair wasn’t forced out of Parliament for his lies, and his sidekick, Comical Ali, is still regularly given airtime by the BBC to peddle his delusional nonsense.”
Marvellous.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/blessed-are-the-cigarette-makers-in-uns-world-of-woke/
A short but much needed filleting of the ESG industry where money is stolen from private companies via the trick of forcing them to produce useless reports on, yes, ESG. Obviously supporting companies have needed to be founded in order to help businesses to write their ESG reports and here is a sample of what is on offer:
Create Alignment
“Without alignment, progression is nearly impossible. With our ESG Maturity Assessment, you’ll be able to quickly evaluate the degree of maturity and consensus at the board and C-suite level. Uncover impactful insights and steer the company in the right direction with complete focus as a winning team.
This complete drivel – word salad would be grossly overstating its content -shows what an absolute farce the ESG industry is and doubtless it will expand on this utterly useless base.
It’s enough to make anyone believe that as the requirement to produce ESG reports filters down to the one man bands, and it will, that the intention is to drive smaller companies out of business.”
Conspiracy theories eh?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/hands-off-our-culture-and-especially-our-children/
A worthwhile double header lambasting the travesty of the current Tate alphabet exhibition and the appalling sexualisation of children in our schools which to me at least seems to be plumbing the depths of depravity.
Mark Zuckerberg goes in for the kill as Elon Musk’s Twitter bleeds ad dollars”
says the Telegraph…
Elon wants to put chips in pur brain..says the Telegraph…
Macron’s wooing of Elon Musk is a looming political disaster for Sunak..says theTelegraph…
Elon Musk’s hopes of being the White House kingmaker are in tatters..says the Telegraph…..
A reckoning awaits Elon Musk’s renegade rocket rivals..says the Telegraph..
The Telegraph hate Elon Musk and are full of 💩 says ebygum….
Nice one Mrs Gums.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/19/rule-by-decree-the-emergency-states-plot-to-override-the-constitution/
Rule by decree. Declare an emergency and then do as you please. The complete inversion of “democracy.”
“They meow rather than answer a question’: The school children now identifying as animals”
Sorry, but they’re all sheep 🐑 and donkeys 🫏 to me!
Not in todays News round-up, but it should be. Redacted on the origins of the Ukraine war and the tragic waste of life:
https://youtu.be/myRW5CV6Rck
How do I cancel my subscription? Tried all different ways and cannot cancel it. Advise would be appreciated
What for? 🙁
It’s too depressing and I can’t afford it anymore
It’s only 6 euros/month though. That’s all I pay anyway. And rest assured, I’d squander that on naff all over the course of a week let alone a month. Why ”depressing” though? You’re part of the gang now and your presence and input are appreciated. Well I’d miss you anyways. 🙂
Come on Dinger. Ignoring what’s happening, as many are doing, won’t make the shyte go away and I believe we have a small role to play in facing up to the onslaught. New people are joining us every week.
Hang on in there.
Dinger please just have break..we all need one sometimes…do something else for a few weeks, away from the computer..and come back refreshed…
I don’t post anywhere as much as I used to…we are in a bit of a ‘waiting’ rut, aren’t we at the moment?
Don’t feel obliged to comment….as I have sometimes in the past. Do a ‘Freddy’ and just pop in now and again until you feel can or want to engage more….
have a bit of away time….refresh..regroup….you’ve earned it….
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/digital-id-2030
Billy is pushing for a Global Digital ID. He is also now awarding gongs.
“And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving out what they call Global Goalkeeper award to people who have done good work in pushing this Agenda 2030.
Guess who was awarded Global Goalkeeper for 2022? Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission…”
Disturbing.
Dr Mike Yeadon is reporting just now that the new Samsung Galaxy phone has an Agenda 2030 app pre-installed.
I can’t recall where this YT entry sprouted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMAR9rOCrk&list=WL&index=5 but it’s copy of a testament to a Pennsylvania state senate hearing on the topic of C-19 vaccine injury, by Dr. McCulloch. About 56 minutes in total. The presentation quality is a but weird, with the audio being a little out of step with the images, but that’s not the real point.
Just happened to be reading an article about somewhere in the world having just appointed its first “gender balanced cabinet”. One presumes they mean a the cabinet is divided 50-50 between men and women. However they cannot be too smug because of course we are now told there are an infinite number of genders so appointing a “gender balanced cabinet” would appear to be impossible.
Why has commenting been closed on Will Jones’ piece this evening :”Surprise Lockdown Sceptic George Obsorne Criticises School Closures as Ex-Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies Says “Awful” Lockdowns “Damaged a Generation”?”
Not strictly part of the daily roundup, but unless it is a mistake this is somewhat concerning on a site committed to free speech.
Now fixed – must have been a glitch somewhere!