The majority of High Street banks are members of diversity schemes run by the controversial charity Stonewall, the Telegraph has revealed.
Lenders are facing questions over their links to the charity amid a backlash over closing the bank accounts of some people with gender-critical views.
A vicar who questioned his building society’s Pride branding had his account closed, while a Scottish blogger believes action was taken by his bank over his stance on gender issues.
Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme includes guidance to employers on gender-neutral spaces and the use of pronouns. The company also runs a top 100 index that measures employers on diversity and inclusion.
HSBC, which allows customers to register as gender-neutral, is the top ranking bank in Stonewall’s annual Equality Index, and Natwest, which is still one-third owned by the Government, is linked to the charity.
Barclays, which offers private medical cover for employees transitioning, and Nationwide, which encourages staff to use pronouns in email signatures, are also among Stonewall’s top 100 employers. Santander is a member of the index, while TSB is a member of the Diversity Champions Scheme.
Lloyds Banking Group, which runs its own branches as well as Halifax and Bank of Scotland, was the only major lender to fail to respond to queries about the scheme, but was previously named as the country’s top employer by Stonewall.
A number of high-profile organisations including the BBC, Channel 4, the Cabinet Office, and the Department of Health have stopped working with Stonewall amid concerns over its schemes.
Guidance has included describing mothers as a “parent who has given birth”, to remove gendered language and to allow those who self-identify as women to use female toilets and changing rooms.
The Information Commissioner has previously found that the index and the Diversity Champions scheme allowed Stonewall to exercise “a significant degree of influence over the policies that participating members operate”.
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“‘So your working-class builder who’s worried about spending £60-a-week on ULEZ is now an extremist?’: Fury as ‘disgraceful’ Sadiq Khan is slammed for ‘smearing’ critics of his war on London’s motorists as ‘far Right’ and ‘Covid deniers’”
Please see my previous days description of Matt Hancock to explain my feelings about Sadiq Khan!
Are Londoners losing the plot?
GET RID of him for goodness sake!
One observation about democracy is that many people can’t help voting for parties or candidates that make their lives worse.
Morning all, hope everyone’s heads aren’t too sore 🤢!
“Germany and Italy block Brussels from banning petrol and diesel cars”
Brussels unelected Parliament who’s power is backed by Germany, Italy, Spain and France, all major cars produces, who’d have thunk?
If this ban goes ahead, you are effectively closing down car production in Europe!
There’s more than one way to close down a car industry, I would imagine the end of cheap reliable energy in Europe will see the flight of manufacturing
“Just 59% of the half-a-million strong increase in those classed as economically inactive can be explained by demographic changes, reports the Mail.”
My evidence is only anecdotal/an impression but I think an extended period where people were paid for doing nothing has had a serious negative impact on national work ethic, self discipline and energy levels. There have always been people with a “why am I bothering” approach and perhaps they found that validated and have now changed their habits for good.
Helping race relations wasn’t the intention. The race industry thrives on conflict. The intention is to defeat the other side. It’s a war.
https://twitter.com/togetherdec/status/1631686856914944000
The opposition did no opposing – what opposition? We have suffered the effect of a uniparty state for years- and look where that has got us.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11817467/Fresh-texts-reveal-Matt-Hancock-discussed-Covid-propel-career-day-virus-hit-UK.html
I apologise for my language but he is a twunt of the highest order. I don’t suppose it will too long before big ears is tapping his shoulder with the ceremonial sword – for services rendered.
Big ears knighting a noddy!
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The “Miracle Cure”, or not, depending on one’s point of view.This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJZ9ROBY3Y&list=WL&index=2 came up today – “This might surprise you!” By Richard Vobes.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/now-published-in-the-peer-reviewedNow published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature: “The mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous”
In case you missed it. Every health authority in the world should be warning the public about this. The paper was published Sept 21, 2022.COVID-19 vaccines – An Australian Review was published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature on Sept 21, 2022.
Here’s the two sentences from the paper that everyone should read:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million than are associated with COVID-19 [43].
An abundance of studies has shown that the mRNA vaccines are neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous.