Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
on July 22, 2024, 1:03 am
First They Blocked Payments to a Palestinian Children’s Centre & then Lied & Blamed it on Government Sanctions
When I Complained About Their Racist Discrimination They Told Me That They Were Closing My Accounts!
When people think of Building Societies they think of what is the fluffier side of British financial institutions. Most building societies like the Woolwich, Halifax and the ill-fated Northern Rock demutualised and became private banks in the 1990s and 2000s.
Most of them were subsequently taken over by the big banks or nationalised in the financial crash of 2008/9. Nationwide emerged as the largest of the remaining building societies.
Today it is clear, with its acquisition of Virgin Money for £2.9 billion, that Nationwide aims to be one of the big banks. It has also removed the accounts of critics of its expansion plans, so I am not the only casualty of its aversion to free speech. Despite having members’ AGMs building societies are anything but democratic. The same old Establishment worms its way in along with their amoral culture. Ctd....
The last working-class hero in England.
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
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