When Barclays Bank became one of the most vocal corporate champions of Mermaids it linked the children’s charity to a web of deception and Jeffrey Epstein’s network of wealthy sex offenders.
Meet Jes Staley, the man who felt so passionately about the importance of Mermaids he signed off a boycott of Mumsnet that was “mandated right from the top.” 
This is the extraordinary story of how one of Britain’s biggest corporations ended up promoting a dodgy, child-harming charity. It’s a story with wider implications beyond Barclays since it is an almost perfect example of how businesses, awash with money, but laden with tainted reputations have adopted the pretensions of the LGBT+ lobby to deflect from their own moral failings.
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Barclays claimed it wanted to be an example to the world. Well it is now. Though not in the way it had hoped. The bullying, self-righteous advocacy of Mermaids by a bank that protected, defended and paid vast sums of money to one of the closest associates of the world’s most notorious paedophile should be seen for what it is: a paradigm of the corrupt arrangement between amoral corporations and the LGBT+ rights movement. One in which a dangerous lobby gets its toxic agenda advanced by providing a smokescreen for immoral behaviour.