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4 Jun, 9 tweets, 4 min read

Nicholas Wilson (Mr Ethical) first told HSBC subsidiary HFC Bank in 2003 that charges they were adding to debts were illegal. They ignored him. He has campaigned ever since.
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2006 - NW reported his employers, Weightmans Solicitors, to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. They sacked him and referred to him as 'Mr Ethical'.

#MrEthical

2007 the SRA confirmed the charges were illegal, but did nothing
2010 the Office of Fair Trading told the bank to stop adding the charges.

#MrEthical

2012 NW reported the fraud to the Financial Services Authority. They did nothing.
2016 Financial Conduct Authority apologised to NW for their failures.

#MrEthical

2017 HSBC agreed that they would repay 6,700 people (£8m). NW gave the FCA further evidence.
2019 HSBC agreed to repay a further 18,500 people (£22.2m).

#MrEthical

2019 the former CEO of HFC Bank took his own life, believing he would go to prison.

#MrEthical

In 2021 it was discovered HSBC carried on adding the charges (after 2010), and were repaying thousands more customers. Nobody is aware of NW's work and he estimates 5-600,000 people are affected.

#MrEthical

In all this time Nicholas Wilson has not been able to find work, being a whistleblower. He is now 64, on benefits, in poor health and unable to pay his mortgage and living expenses without support. The media has only rarely reported his campaign.

#MrEthical

HSBC should pay Nicholas compensation, to give him security for his final days.

#MrEthical

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The first attempt at removing democratic control of the #NHS was by Kenneth Clarke, when he was health secretary, 1988 - 1990. But that failed completely.

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"À la recherche du temps perdu"

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Subsequently, Lloyd George was also hugely corrupt, and the Liberals themselves fell.

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The Turnout for the vote was 42.55 per cent.

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