Most High Street Banks are Signed Up to Stonewall Diversity Schemes
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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Stonewall needs stripping of its charitable status: it’s a business promoting sexual deviance.
A much better idea would be to force it to act as what it de facto is: An organisation for aggressively promoting certain religious views keen on using its organizational powers to punish heretics, ie, people who openly disagree with the belief system promoted by Stonewall. They’d probably like burning them at the stake, too, they just haven’t yet become powerful enough to actually do that. That they can get away with openly enoucarging violence and with some pretty serious non-governmental (or semi-governmental) persecution of people whose sole crime is truthfully stating biological facts is already bad enough.
Does anyone have any non-woke banks they can recommend? We have to start showing these corporations that going work really does mean going broke.
“Al Rayan is seeing a surge in popularity amongst non-Muslim customers looking for an alternative to conventional British commercial banks.”
Not a recommendation on my part per se but I thought it was interesting.
Odd, their website is rather rainbowy.
Current accounts only available if you have £500K plus, otherwise same issue as other online/small banks and credit unions, you need a current account elsewhere to withdraw cash.
The whole effing system is set up to increase reliance on digital currency!
Ah, forget that one then! Yep, we are screwed in this country.
The Nationwide possibly? Isn’t it the only mutual left so someone told me a couple of days ago .. I haven’t checked it out though.
LOL…..they are all in the same boat…check out the logo!
https://www.facebook.com/NationwideBuildingSociety/photos/a.264327133659252/3032989430126328/?type=3
Although we can’t march together this year, we’re planning lots of other things to celebrate Pride this summer as well as educating and supporting our colleagues… we’ll keep you posted!
I can’t find one that hasn’t signed up to the ESG crap…..
I appreciate we’ve all got to bank somewhere?……we’re doomed!!
No they are NOT the only mutual left, every building society is a mutual and there are still 43 of them in the UK. Join and you become a member with voting rights and the ability to control their behaviour, unlike banks.
https://www.advratings.com/uk/building-societies
RBS wasn’t mentioned in the article as having links with Stonewall, although they may do so. I’m with them and haven’t been sent anything that mentions their support of transgender issues, although I don’t know what their branches are like.
The woke banks would refuse to do business with the non woke one. ———-This Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) which all major corporations are signing up to is spreading like a speeding bullet and none of them want to be left behind by being pariahs in the market place. The Bud Light, Unilever, Nike etc and all the rest that sign up to this seem prepared to take a temporary hit in their till receipts because they think in the long term it will benefit them to be part of the woke capitalism. Eventually all of the non wokes will either sign up or vanish into thin air.
Seems the whole bloody lot of them are captured and determined to label the normal majority as ‘credit risks’.
I don’t know much about them but are credit unions an option?
https://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk/about-credit-unions/
I think there are small banks eg Hodge Bank (Catholic founder?) where you can get savings accounts and mortgages but the issue with smaller banks and credit unions is they don’t do current accounts.
Thanks – have been scouting around myself and yes, seems you need a current account with credit unions to actually get cash out. That said, one of the ones I contacted said they were too small for ESG & Stonewall so that’s a plus.
How about the Bank of Pakistan?
They have branches in London Birmingham and Manchester.
https://hblbankuk.com/personal/
We need an FSU Bank or barebones payments service. Charitable status perhaps, profits go to promotion of and litigation for free speech.
Perhaps it sounds fanciful, but you can farm out the nuts and bolts bits of money transfers, operate without branches and without cash (I know, I know). No need even to offer loans or mortgages just a debit card, maybe a credit card. That’s all I want from a bank.
I suspect there’d be millions willing to do without DEI, pedophilia flags and wokerywankery.
We don’t want any of this crap.
Signed
The Good People of Gloucestershire.
Indeed, the rot set in some time ago, while we all stood and watched.
https://gab.com/airstrip1news/posts/110656146640654495
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12259729/Under-fire-Bank-England-says-people-gender-identity-pregnant.html
The Bank of England has used gender neutral terminology that suggests people of any gender identity are able to become pregnant.
The UK’s central bank, which is currently under fire for repeatedly hiking interest rates, is also offering to pay for its staff to undergo gender reassignment surgeries under its private healthcare policy.
In an application to be included in LGBT rights charity Stonewall’s top 100 employer’s list, the bank outlined its parental leave policy in noting it applies to any ‘birthing parent’, according to The Times.
The government-owned bank’s submission explains the gender neutral term refers to the ‘parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities’.
The submission to Stonewall also emphasises the Bank’s commitment to gender-neutral toilets as it outlines its plans to upgrade its current facilities
Repeat after me : “Building societies are not banks”
Building societies don’t have shares, they cannot be bought and controlled. Members have a right to turn up and vote people out and change policy. It is time members stood up and did so.
Banks are a different matter, they can be bought and sold. My advice is to get out of banks, they are ALL corrupted and under the control of the cabal.
“ It is time members stood up and did so” – I wouldn’t want to bet real money on them doing so.
Banks and Building Societies control a commodity, money. Thus they should be under the same regulations as gas, electricity and water suppliers, unable to cut off the supply to a customer without justification.
As for those establishments that push personal pronouns and similar, just use online and machine banking. The staff numbers will then be reduced and they can wear their idiotic badges down at the job centre.