Friday, 7 July 2023

 

Yorkshire Building Society ‘closed vicar’s account after trans protest’

 


Urgent calls to change financial regulations are growing as more people find themselves the victim of banking “cancel culture”, due to their political and social beliefs.

Reverend Richard Fothergill, a customer of Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) for 17 years, had his account closed days after writing to the bank to complain about its public messaging during Pride month.

“I wrote to them on their feedback portal making two points: one was ‘is this really a good use of your time, you’re not here for social engineering’ and [secondly] said I have serious ethical problems with the transsexual element, and the implications of broadcasting that to young children”.

In a letter he received last week, he said he was told his relationship with YBS had “irrevocably broken down” and that the company holds a “zero tolerance approach to discrimination”.

“They didn’t justify it - they said ‘your comments will not stand’. I think its fairly sinister and we’re in very dangerous water when banks can pick and choose who they’re going to do business with based on prejudicial whims”.

5 comments:

  1. I don't know which is worse - the pompous attitudinising of the Yorkshire Bank, which reminds me of Gene Vincent at his poisonous worst, or the self-basting self-regard of this featherheaded vicar, which again reminds me of Gene Vincent at his most preeningly ludicrous.

    It is as if - oh, I don't know - someone were to maintain that homosexuality is the moral equivalent of genocidal mass murder, or that buggering small boys and raping little girls is a transgression on the same scale as parking on a double yellow line.

    Now, who was that again? Oops, sorry, I forgot - it was that shallow, self-important prick Gene "Two-faced fuckwit Cry-baby" Vincent: who else would be so thunderously and un-repentantly nasty.

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    1. "It is as if - oh, I don't know - someone were to maintain that homosexuality is the moral equivalent of genocidal mass murder, or that buggering small boys and raping little girls is a transgression on the same scale as parking on a double yellow line."

      YES, AND THAT SOMEONE IS YOU. YOU MALICIOUS TOSSER!

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  2. No, Gene, that won’t wash. You said the remorseless and entirely necessary investigation of the paedophile priests who throng the priesthood was the same as a witch hunt to out priests who had had parking tickets. That is to say that buggering small boys and raping little girls is morally equivalent to parking on a double yellow line. That is an appalling thing to say - nearly as bad as your equating homosexuality with a propensity to genocidal mass murder.

    BOTH OF WHICH YOU DID, YOU SNIVELLING LITTLE PRICK. YOU EVEN LACK THE COURAGE OF YOUR OWN FILTHY CONVICTIONS.

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  3. Everyone can see what I wrote and WHAT YOU WROTE.
    You lying malicious old tosser.

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  4. No they can’t - TES Opinion is long gone. And what you wrote clearly makes an equivalence between homosexuality and genocidal mass murder. Entirely appropriate for someone who supports the murderous policies of the church in Uganda.

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