Leaked messages from a British online bank have shown staff members deriding Conservatives as being “evil”, a report in the British press has claimed.
Workers at the online lender Monzo are said to have lashed out at right-wingers on the internal Slack chat, describing Conservatives as “ugly” and critics of transgenderism as being “vile”.
According to The Telegraph, multiple members of staff disparaged members of the UK’s Conservative Party, expressing glee at losses experienced by the party in recent local elections.
One official attacked the country’s former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, claiming that it would be “best for humanity” if he permanently stayed out of politics.
“Maybe JRM [Rees-Mogg] could do the human race a favour and stay out of politics forever,” the staffer wrote in a message posted late last year.
“Doubt you could replace him with anyone who is more of an archetypal Tory.”
Harry Potter author JK Rowling was also the target of some workers, with messages complaining about “terfs”, a slang word often used as an insult against trans-critical feminists, also being common.
“JK Rowling is a terf so grim,” one message read, with another describing the author as being “vile”.
When asked about the posts, Monzo denied that the messages were representative of the company, accusing the media of selecting “cherry-picked” comments for publication.
“Our ambition is to make money work for everyone, which means that we’re politically neutral and personal views play no part in our policies or decision making, including eligibility for a Monzo account,” a spokesman for the lender said.
“Any suggestion otherwise is categorically untrue.”
“These cherry-picked comments are personal views of a handful of employees in informal conversations and it is wrong to portray them as the views of Monzo or our thousands of other employees,” the official added.
The messages have been viewed as further evidence of anti-right bias within Britain’s financial services sector, with revelations surrounding the forced closure of Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank accounts morphing into a sector-wide scandal in recent weeks.
Since it was confirmed that Farage had his account with the prestigious bank terminated partially for political reasons, other right-wingers in the country revealed that they have been refused access to loans and other services by lenders without explanation.
“Corporate Britain has suffered a complete takeover,” Farage said after the Monzo leaks came to light, adding that he was “not in the least bit surprised” by the contents of the messages.
It has also been claimed that the UK’s current Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt had an application for an account denied by Monzo before he assumed the senior cabinet position.
The bank reportedly justified the refusal with reference to anti-money laundering rules.
