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EXCLUSIVE: A pay day loan firm has been accused of profiting off the NHS brand

NHS logo pictured right, compared to Salad Money's 'Hospital Employees' branding...
leftfootforward.org/2020/05/exclus…
The for-profit social enterprise charge most NHS employees 69.9% APR - below most pay day lenders but way above the NHS Credit Union's 19.6%
Former Labour Gen Sec Lord Iain McNichol is a non-exec director of the firm, while former USDAW union General Secretary John Hannett OBE sits on the company's Public Responsibility Oversight Body
Lord McNichol is currently off the Labour frontbench, while an investigation is carried out into claims that senior officials sought to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership while he was General Secretary
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Cummings' new job ad says: "We want to hire some VERY clever young people either straight out of university or recently out with with extreme curiosity and capacity for hard work."

Almost certainly age discrimination and in breach of civil service code
dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two…
Here's ACAS' (a key regulator in this area) advice on age discrimination #Cummings
*Civil service guidelines, not code.

Pretty hairy when it comes to the Equality Act too
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Two right-wing think tanks in a row on #r4today this morning - the Institute of Economic Affairs followed by the Adam Smith Institute. No left-wing balance.

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Can you imagine the @CLASSthinktank going on followed by @NEF with no corresponding right-wing balance?
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The Green Party is set to vote on adopting the #IHRA definition of antisemitism at autumn conference next month leftfootforward.org/2018/09/green-… (1/x)
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