It’s no secret.
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With the fear of having my comment flagged. I’ve nothing aggainst Eid or Pride, but I don’t think that you should mix business with politics. Especially when it comes to a field such as banking. That’s why I don’t want to see any politically related content in the Monzo or other financial apps.
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How is pride political?
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Pride is a politcal movement the same way ‘Black Life Matters’ is for black people or the feminist movement is to women. I don’t think poltics have a place in banking apps.
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It’s a celebration of a people who have been persecuted for a long time.
What policy are they trying to introduce if it’s a political movement?
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No, it absolutely is not. A human being loving who they love and being able to celebrate that is nothing to do with any political movement.
Being LGBT+ also isn’t tied to any specific political leaning. We come from all walks of life and may have vastly differing views.
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Personally I love that my bank is actively running campaigns that promote equality and long may it continue.
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Just marked this as a solution because you’ve just about summed it up. 
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Actually no it’s not as saying that is incredibly simplistic but that’s not a topic that should be covered here.
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I would love to see Monzo do some education(no idea what form it would take) on this sort of thing as well. As I think you can only start to break down barriers when you start to educate people.
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@bendik the only people that think you can separate politics from business[1] are people who have grown up with enough privilege that for them political engagement is a choice. For many, political engagement is a necessity. Monzo acknowledges that reality and the sooner you do, the better.
[1] and music and movies and sports and conversation and internet forums and social media and fashion and science and technology and everything else that exists in our lives.
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I’ll be honest, I hadn’t even noticed it was there but after reading this thread I think it’s a good idea for it to be shown
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I think it’s nice to have the emojis change to show what’s happening out and about.
Eid and pride being the latest to greet us, I reckon there are users who aren’t keeping these dates in their diary’s and are happy for this little reminder about what’s going on in the world.
That’s fair enough. I disagree, because most big banks are political businesses in that they are quite happy to support political parties and to lobby politicians to make their businesses easier to run and be more profitable.
I have no idea if Monzo do any of that, but emojis in a notification sets the tone of the bank and advertises their ethical standpoint. In this particular case it’s about inclusivity and tolerance. So I don’t see anything wrong with it.
On the other hand, I saw the emoji yesterday so fleetingly, it completely passed me by, and if hadn’t been that I’d read this thread, I’d have likely totally missed it.
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I presumed not, but out of interest I have just checked the 2019 Annual Report from two weeks ago:
Donations
The Group hasn’t made any donations or incurred any expense to any registered UK political party or other EU political organisation.
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Pride is massively political. Let’s not forget we still live in country which does not allow equal marriage to all its citizens.
And Monzo is political – it quietly campaigns on a whole host of issues by virtue of being an ethical business which publicises its ethical stance.
Banking with Monzo is a political decision for a lot of people, including me.
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Interestingly, I would argue that the entity that is Monzo(“the company”) is neutral but it allows its employs to have a stance on important issues
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Any word whether we can have rainbow emoji all year round? Would be a great hidden setting in the app.
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Even the mission statement, “making money work for everyone” is a political stance in this era of corrupt bankers and wealth that is siphoned off for the 1%.
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