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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“G7 images have turned the tide”.
Didn’t they say that last year about certain protests? And yet here we are a year on.
I’ve lost count of the times we’ve said that the tide is turning.
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“Mass vaccination of children… to protect adults at the expense of children”.
Children are too young to give informed consent to experimental drugs trials. Surely it would be child abuse.
Having seen the way they treat victims in ‘care’ homes, abusing children merely seems logical.
It’s not abuse in their Aztec world view now. It’s merely child sacrifice, to appease the Gods.
Since when have children had to protect adults? I always thought adults protected children! Not any more, it seems.
Totally logical to those bellends who told us to protect the NHS
See my comment above.
This is interesting reading from WHO.
Did you know that if a child / young person attends school on the day vaccinations are being done, it is seen as implied consent for them to be vax’d?
https://www.who.int/immunization/programmes_systems/policies_strategies/consent_note_en.pdf
In that case, the school should be obliged to give a date that the jabusers will be attending the school, with sufficient notice. Last few times I have seen no warning in the school calendar. Wonder if it is now a secret policy not to provide a date to parents.
Makes a complete mockery of a consent form. I never return the form, as I refuse to treat with such an inept genocidal organisation.
“Ina a few well described circumstances consent may be waived”.
Ah, is this one of those things where they can interpret things in such a way as to make the principle of consent meaningless? And for that matter, do the same rules apply to dangerous experimental “treatments”?
Under Common Law parents own the child and it is they who have to give consent. Correct me please if I am wrong.
“Petition against making the ‘jab’ compulsory” (see above).
Please sign this if you have not already done so.
The NFL player refusing to take the vaccines has a strong legal case. Also, if the NFL has a written policy of requiring medication which is not FDA approved they are breaking the law. They would know that and are probably relying on bluff.
I think he is a hero and wish him well.
Sadly, there rare too few other players with similar intellect and integrity.
The NFL protocols are based upon zero medical evidence and straight out of the discriminatory segregation and apartheid playbook.
They will eventually be a shameful and important document for mankind going forward.
History will heap scorn on the NFL bosses and the union, and praise Cole Beasley.
Ross Clark and the Swiss doctor wrote about the same study.
The MSM in Germany is ignoring it completely, only RT reported on it.
It only confirms what us critics have been saying from the start anyway, but as it is from a mainstream institution and mainstream scientists using actual mainstream data, ignoring it only confirms the corruption and totally unscientific approach of the media, health profession and politicians in Germany.
Liam Fox says that Britons aren’t stupid?
Muzzled, imprisoned, prodded with sticks, jabbed with monkey gunk, forbidden to do anything worth doing, lapping it up, bleating for more, and they aren’t stupid?
Moronic is perhaps le mot juste!?
Liam Fox is my MP. He is walking the tightrope between pretending to be gung-ho for opening up but at the same time is an anti-vax hater. I would no more trust what he says than I would trust a drugged cobra. He was fully on board with the mask mandate last year, as he wrote to me saying that it was just a “minor imposition for a short while” and that I should get on board with it and “play my part”. Like most of the rest of them, he’s fully paid up to the globalist plans.
As for Britons not being stupid, I agree, I’ve never been so shocked as I have been over the past fifteen/sixteen months. People’s brains have gone. They are high on the covid juice.
I was going to post something similar but this fits the bill perfectly.
From the cruise item above. Proof that the snake oils really make Eeeeeeeeeverybidybsaaaaaafe:
“Already the COVID-19 vaccine has proven essential to cruise ship operations. Last week, two passengers tested positive five days into an eight-day cruise on the Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Millennium ship in the Caribbean, even though all adult passengers and crew showed proof of vaccination. This week, eight crew members tested positive on Royal Caribbean International’s Odyssey of the Seas ship off Florida’s coast, less than two weeks since crew members on board were vaccinated. In response, the company pushed back the ship’s tentative restart date by nearly a month.”
And this gem:
“Ships that have 98% of their crew and 95% of their passengers vaccinated can restart without test cruises; others must conduct a two-day test cruise to ensure other COVID-19 protocols are preventing outbreaks.”
So you can tell after two days whether or not there’s an outbreak?
Hey-ho, a living death on the ocean wave.
Pity about Japan.
About Koike Yuriko – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/yuriko-koike
I hope She gets a real jab.
Holmes: ‘RT-PCR test positivity should not be taken as an accurate measure of infectious SARS-CoV-2 incidence. Our results confirm the findings of others that the routine use of “positive” RT-PCR test results as the gold standard for assessing and controlling infectiousness fails to reflect the fact “that 50-75% of the time an individual is PCR positive, they are likely to be post-infectious”
Dr Watson: What is that bear doing in the wood?
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext
(162,457 tested individuals)
Holmes: They are making it up as they go along.
Dr Watson: Can a duck swim?
‘…there is no international standardization across laboratories, rendering problematic the interpretation of RT-PCR tests when used as a tool for mass screening.’
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext
(162,457 tested individuals)
‘…covid was not just a “casedemic” or a “fake pandemic” (as the 2009 swine flu), but a PCR-driven “casedemic” on top of a real pandemic’
https://swprs.org/the-failure-of-pcr-mass-testing/
If there is no international PCR test standardisation, how can it possibly be stated that there has been a real pandemic?
Particularly since:
The pandemic definition is changed at whim. ‘The 2009 swine flu was a ‘fake pandemic’ because in reality it was a rather mild flu that caused few deaths globally. It was labeled a “pandemic” in June 2009 only because the WHO had removed the requirement of “enormous numbers of death and illness” one month before.’
(Swiss Doctor reference above ‘Strange pandemic’ link)
And no-one has any idea how many have died worldwide or what they have died from.
‘Robust monitoring of youth mortality remains challenging because the burden is concentrated in countries with deficient civil registration and vital statistics systems. In 2019, only 20·3% of deaths among youth occurred in countries where death registration was at least 80% complete. 25·9% of deaths occurred in China, Bangladesh, and India, where sample registration systems are in place, and for the remaining 53·9% of deaths, surveys and censuses were the primary sources of information.’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00023-1/fulltext
It is as though the world is being run by a group of not particularly gifted 5 year olds
You don’t need to be clever in order p to be evil, wreck lives, and kill people.
The critic A. C. Bradley once wrote a shrewd essay on Iago in Othello. Most critics assume that because Iago causes total havoc and ruins everybody’s lives, he must be clever. Bradley argued convincingly tnat he was merely evil.
Our variously Fascist and Stalinist tyrants are merely evil.
it’s alright, the BBC are 100% sure that 500,000 have died from “it” in Brazil and it’s all Bolsonaro’s fault, and don’t mention Peru.
prophecy that future pandemics are inevitable
At the start of this hysteria in 2020. I’ve been hearing people in media saying “we were warning you about this, you didn’t listen”, “capitalism and globalism would lead to this, w cannot go on like this”, “this is the next big one”, “bla, bla, bla”…
Well, it’s all crazy, this was not the next big one. At worse, it is something like “Hong-Kong” flu of 1968-69, but more probably it is closer to a common cold than ordinary seasonal flu.
And there won’t be a next big one.
How Global Capitalism Boosted Immunities
https://www.aier.org/article/how-global-capitalism-boosted-immunities/
No book on cell and molecular biology that I’ve found mentions lockdowns and hiding as ways to beat a virus. “For most viruses that attack humans,” says Cell and Molecular Biology for Dummies, “your only defenses are prevention and your own immune systems.”
Strange isn’t it? Nothing about the awesome power of politicians to crush a virus. It should come as no surprise that the most comprehensive and global statistical analysis yet conducted concludes that “rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people” – which to say there is no evidence that any of this ghastly destruction saved lives.
…
One of the brave and intelligent voices here is Sunetra Gupta, the professor of theoretical epidemiology who leads a full team of experts at Oxford University.
Her understanding is so profound that she has, in an interview, offered up a fascinating thesis concerning why the flu pandemic of 1918 was the last truly catastrophic plague we’ve seen in the modern world.
Gupta’s claim is that when we live in isolated tribes that are sheltered from exposure, those people gradually become weaker and more vulnerable. The wrong pathogen arrives at the wrong time and the people have not been biologically prepared for it. It wipes them out in shocking ways. But with modern capitalism came the end of such sterile isolation. It gave us new methods of travelling, mixing, associating, moving, and hence led to more exposure to disease and the resulting antibodies. Hence, it is not just better therapeutics and vaccines that helped us conquer some plagues but immunities themselves. Our biological toolkit for fighting disease became improved simply through travel, trade, and global commerce.
I quote Gupta at length, beginning with her tutorial on virus immunity 101 gained over the course of last century and oddly forgotten in this century:
The other interesting issue that I’ve suddenly realised with this particular threat, is that people are treating it like an external disaster, like a hurricane or a tsunami, as if you can batten down the hatches and it will be gone eventually. That is simply not correct. The epidemic is an ecological relationship that we have to manage between ourselves and the virus.
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Why don’t we get flu pandemics anymore? Because before 1918 there was not sufficient international travel or densities of individuals to keep flu on as the sort of seasonal thing it is now. Pockets of non-immune people would build up, and then they would be ravaged.
That was the pattern until the end of the First World War. Since then, many of these diseases have become endemic. As a result of which we are much more exposed to diseases in general and related pathogens, so if something new comes along we are much better off than we would be if we hadn’t had some sort of exposure to it.
If coronavirus had arrived in a setting where we had no coronavirus exposure before, we might be much worse off. It also seems that in addition to protection against severe disease as a result of exposure to related coronaviruses, some fraction of us seem to be resistant to infection.
That’s just fantastic news, actually. Hopefully that will be consolidated at a scientific, laboratory level. We ourselves are looking at how antibodies to seasonal coronaviruses can impact on protection against infection and disease.
Maybe we will be able to build up a picture that will reassure the public that actually we are much better off having been exposed to related coronaviruses. We are in a better place to fight off this infection than we actually thought.
One might think that this learned professor’s outlook, offered from her position at perhaps the world’s most prestigious university, would hold some sway over media and politics. The implications of what she says are not only that the lockdowns are wrong. Not only that the closures are pointless. She goes further: they are making us less healthy, and taking steps to revert the progress of health we have made over a century of travel, mixing, and close commercial relationships.
The implications of Gupta’s view – and its flipping of the run-and-hide, shelter-in-place narrative – offer a promising new way to understand the relationship between modern capitalism and the dramatic improvements in human health.
I agree with your interpretation of Sunetra’s commentary on the issue. Don’t forget that quite a few ‘isolated tribes’ came across this problem when they were invaded from Europe hundreds of years ago – e.g. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/impact-european-diseases-native-americans
Thanks for the link/information. There is also the present case of North Sentinel Islands. It’s a kind of national reservation in India for tribe of people who would die if they came to contact with anyone.
Btw, I should have probably made it more clear, the text bellow the headline in bold and the link are quoted parts of the text from the link (article is by Jeffrey A. Tucker).
Much as I like the idea of pouring derision on the G7 party, the scare story about ‘infections’ is so ludicrously typical of this shit-show that it’s hard to get pleasure.
Andy Burnam (Andrew Marr show(Nick Robinson)) is against mandatory vaccines for care home staff.
Wonders never cease!
That’s encouraging news. He’s gone up slightly in my estimation.
Edit: ohoh He thinks the government has taken the right steps in the roadmap and is all for surge vaccination.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andy-burnham-says-coming-through-20859488.amp
Might have known!
Burnham is a really, really EVIL piece of work and anybody involved in politics in Greater Manchester would confirm this.
As despicable as garbage Bliar.
The link between vaccinations and Tory popularity is Broken.
Watched that On the Beach advert the other night with that shrivelled slug from the red hot chilli peppers telling you that your holidays are cancelled while he gets to have the whole beach to himself.
It IS one rule for them and one rule for everyone else.
They ARE openly taking the piss out of us.
This IS about psychologically conditioning you into being a slave and never questioning their authority.