Hope your dog is better now.

Can I ask the name of the bank. I use two separate banks in the UK but don't trust either of them.

I find online banking with the UK a major headache, as I wrote about here before, as they are resistant to let us have our money but if we raise our voices they will surely close the account. I had a foreign account closed once and with no advanced warning (just a text to say someone was withdrawing all my money - it was them!) perhaps because I told them I had difficulty understand the accent and could they email instead of phoning. They wanted to send me the money by cheque - when banks themselves hate cheques! Banks IMO are the worst business for not caring about customers - they get huge bonuses and Knighthoods even if they lose money (as we saw in 2008). Most banks are shite.

 

Sorry to hear of your troubles Jim, hope the dog recovers well soon,
I know Barclays have announced more closures and what was our local branch is now a 3 mile journey.
Maybe part of a wider picture, which will end up making us all a part of a cash-less society.
Keep smiling remember your British.....regards JB

 

When money is deposited in a bank it is not actually a "deposit" but an UNSECURED LOAN to the bank - to do with it what THEY wish. And they can freeze it and stop you getting it back. They have us by the sort and curlies (in those countries where "curlies" are relevant).

How many of us, given a choice, would lend money in that way? It would be safer lending it to a Filipino!

 

It's bank of Scotland.