I see Nigel Farage has had all his bank accounts closed and no other bank in the UK will let him open an account. How can you carry out every day life without a bank account? It stinks, I don't care if you are left or right having a bank account is a necessity these days. Can you even pay for gas and electric, broadband etc by cash any more?
I thought a few years ago the government decided to pay dole etc direct to accounts so everyone was entiltled to banking, but I guess not.
by who and why?
obviously frightened of him
My father has had an account with them for decades, on several occasions they have pissed him off so much that he’s said “fukc it, let’s move banks” but we never went through the hassle of opening another account. But we’ve had a gut full of these twats now, opening an account elsewhere.
one bank I do not have any accounts with ... they pissed me off in 2010 when I was buying Chez Druid ... nearly cost me the purchase as they wouldn't give me the £85k sat in my savings a/c there .... so closed all my a/c.s with them and ain't been back. Know lots of folks have had trouble with them.
Lloyds, who I have been with for 35 years biz-wise, forty + years personally, and manage my life with, know full well they will only piss me off once

...
came very close last year, when Barclaycard took their D/D 4 days early (always pay it off in full) ...
noticed it following day, when I was topping up the current a/c to cover it on the usual due day and there was this list of charges

... me an' the manager had a strong conversation and they were waived ... eventually.
but they're all the same ...
have funds sat in a/c.s with Nat west ... keep threatening to close them, (
'cos they have no activity, other than accruing what meagre interest there is these days) and put the monies in some 'pot' .... so to piss them off I pay 10p into each of 'em every couple of months ...
's activity

been with them since I was 17 - nigh on 50 years
