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KREMLIN-FUNDED TELEVISION network RT says that Britain’s NatWest bank is closing all its accounts in a unilateral decision.
“They have closed our accounts in Britain. All the accounts,” wrote RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on Twitter.
She said the channel had been told the decision “cannot be reviewed”, adding “long live freedom of speech”.
RT later published on its website a letter from NatWest bank dated 12 October saying it has reviewed its banking arrangements with RT and “reached the conclusion that we will no longer provide these facilities.”
The letter from NatWest, owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, does not give any reason for this decision, which it says is “final” and not open to any discussion.
The bank says it will close RT’s accounts by 12 December.
RT reported on its channel that the letter was sent to RT’s London office and that RT has been with NatWest for more than 10 years, calling the letter “very vague, very British”.
Simonyan told the RBK business news site that she had “no idea” of the reason for the closure of the accounts, but suggested it could be linked to the fact that “we are expecting new British and US sanctions against Russia”.
Possibly it’s linked to this.
She told Rossiya-24 state television that “there can be no reason, we have absolutely transparent work, absolutely transparent financing”.
She said the decision included some personal accounts of senior staff working in Britain.
RT, formerly known as Russia Today, has the slogan “Question More” and was set up to present news from the perspective of the Kremlin, and has been criticised as a slavish propaganda tool for President Vladimir Putin.
Ties between Russia and the UK are at their lowest since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine and Moscow’s bombing campaign in Syria.
There was no immediate indication that this decision was linked to the British authorities.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova tied the bank decision to Brexit, writing on Facebook: “It looks like when leaving the European Union, London left in Europe all its obligations on freedom of speech.”
The foreign-language network that is primarily aimed at audiences in Europe and the United States broadcasts 24-hours a day in English, Arabic and Spanish.
It has a British outlet called RT UK that broadcasts from London.
The bank decision came as ongoing legal action involving claims against Moscow from shareholders of defunct oil firm Yukos founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky has led to freezes of Russian assets abroad including those of state media.
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Imagine the uproar if it was the Russians doing that to the BBC? It looks like the Brits are doing their upmost to pi$$ off the Russians and jump in bed with the yanks yet again..
You think Russians living in Russia have access to the BBC??
You think the BBC would bother with accounts in Russia?
Yes they do have access to BBC, troll.
Joe. I doubt the BBC have bank accounts with Russian banks.
rt news is a great news channel what are the brits afraid of
@Cosmo Kramer:
Russia Today has already been in trouble with the Broadcast Watchdog OFCOM for unbalanced reporting.
Of course Russians have access to the BBC. What a profoundly ignorant thing to say. It just goes to show you know next to nothing about the place.
@Bobby Phelan:
RT is a great news channel? Weren’t they the station that blatantly made up the existence of a Spanish ATC working in the Ukraine who allegedly directed MH17 into the path of a missile?
If unbalanced reporting was all it took to get into trouble with Ofcom, the BBC would be constantly repremanded.
NatWest, the bank that likes to say fcuk off
The war on Russia and freedom continues. Who would have thought Soviets will become champions of free speech.
@Tom @Joe
Russians have internet access only to a limited BBC Russian Service. BBC programming is not available on either tv or radio in Russia. That is just a fact.
Chris the Hut, the soviets? They’re gone, I know putin wants to bring those ‘glory’ days back but I think the Poles and others will have something to say about that.
@Avina Laaf: BBC . France TV, Deutsche Welle, Spanish TV, two largest German TV stations etc, etc 24/7. Even RTE Radio. No restrictions whatsoever.
BTW .Wikileaks internet also cut off today.
@Mick Jordan: I do not know about BBC, but nearly all German companies, big and small active in Russia have Russian bank accounts.
@Avina Laaf:
Jesus talk about nitpicking. They also don’t have access to RTE, and we don’t have access to their main news channels except on the internet too.
I’m living in Germany now and don’t have access to RTE on the telly here and can only get to it online (can you believe that I can’t get RTE on the regular radio here either??), do you reckon it’s some grand consipiracy by the German government?
@Avina Laaf:
You have some weird understanding of Russia I must say, it is not too dissimilar to hear with access to most media. They even have SKY Sports and full access to SKY Europe you absolute noobie.
“here”
My life for an edit function
@Pat O’Dwyer: This guy is a bit crazy, but in this short clip he makes a few good points which cannot be refuted. The media are completely silent, but we are much closer to an all out nuclear war today than during the Cuban crises. The US have installed and activated missiles in Romania last month ,and are now installing them in Poland, which if fitted with a nuclear head can wipe out every Russian city west of the Urals inside of ten minutes. Many hawks in Washington are pressing for a first strike. Something big is happening.
“EMERGENCY! War Declared on Russia By Soros Controlled U.S.
The US and Russia have all but declared war. Alex breaks down how this manufactured conflict is being used to take over what remains of the United States by the globalists.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy43yskCyLQ&feature=share
Past 24 hours:
- Blocked RT UK bank accounts
- Cut off Wikileaks’ Internet
- CNN claims it’s illegal to read Wikileaks
More detail on RT UK:
- NatWest Bank froze RT’s account
- NatWest is part of RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland)
- UK Government owns 73% of RBS
@Meanderingsz: Oh yes, and the BBC and SKY would never do that.
@Pat O’Dwyer: Nuclear War What It Would Look Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxQNc0NE8A&sns=fb
Pat did I say anything about German companies? I don’t believe I did.
@Cosmo Kramer: I think they are going to do that, you might not like what folk have to say, but this is ridiculous.
@Cosmo Kramer: Perhaps you should familiarise yourself with the case of Bill Browder the British CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital, a Russian based hedge fund. Putin killed his friends, arrested and deported him because he had the temerity to point out corruption.
Oh, and as a matter of massive bonus points for Russia, it told Soros and Rothchild’s their not welcome in Russia. If anything gave kudos points to Russia, it is that.
Vladimir Putin: Russia Issues International Arrest Warrant For Rothschild & Soros!
Fair f*cking play to him…..
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: and what % of the BBC is run by UK Govt?
@Austin Rock: Follow the money or just turn on the TV, the answer is in technicolour and stereo.
They are afraid of truth
And western media limits speech too, just in different ways.
And let us not even talk about body bags, as in the US they stack quite tall and the UK has done its share as most nefarious countries have.
@Avina Laaf: http://www.bbc.com/russian TV stations widely available on satellite.
Ever heard of a vpn? Of course they have
You just knew Mick and Jason were going to pop with their usual propaganda.
All the putin trolls are busy today. How’s the weather in St Petersburg today?
Nice and warm Marty, have you ever heard of Jill Dando?
@Cosmo Kramer: You spoke too soon, be assured there will be blow back against some Western media.
I wouldn’t trust Nat West.
Mind you, I used to work there.
@Damocles: I wouldn’t trust them either but it looks like the Russians have maxed out their credit cards….
>we are expecting new British and US sanctions against Russia
JFC would the US and its lackey ever give it a rest with the sanctions, they don’t work and are just trashing their relationship with Russia.
@Veronica:
Most experts agree that the combination of Western sanctions and fluctuating oil prices have had a serious knock-on effect on Russia’s economy.
Russia can’t continue to act like they have in Crimea and Aleppo and expect the international community not to act.
They’ve invaded and annexed one country and more recently bombed innocent civilians in another. Apart from declaring war on them, what can other countries do only implement sanctions?
@Jason Culligan: I have family in Moscow and more rural Russia, they all say that it was a huge blow at the beginning (my cousin also lost his job) but that now the country is turning inwards again industrially, and more jobs are being created at home. Everyone is more positive in their outlook now than they were in the past. They know the US and EU hate them and now don’t care at not having access to some things from Europe.
These sanctions feel like desperate scrabbling.
@Tweety McTweeter:
>They’ve invaded and annexed one country and more recently bombed innocent civilians in another. Apart from declaring war on them, what can other countries do only implement sanctions?
You could so easily be talking about America.
Tweety MCTweeter: if the head hackers in aleppo surrendered then the bombing would stop, if the head hackers allowed civilians to leave then no more civilians get killed.
Veronica. Didn’t the Russian Prime minister recently tell Russian pensioners on tv to suck it up, that the country didn’t have the money to increase their pensions
Yes Tweety only America are allowed to do that.
Tweety,
Russia, the U.S and all the imperial powers involved in Syria should hang their heads in shame at the barbarism they’re inflicting on the Syrian people in their geopolitical power play.
But in the Ukraine and Crimea, the West are clearly the aggressors as John Pilger explains:
“Washington’s role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last “buffer state” bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington’s planned seizure of Russia’s historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
@Mick Jordan: I don’t know, I don’t watch Russian telly, but maybe he did. Maybe they don’t have enough money to increase pensions at the moment. What’s your point? That’s likely a direct knock-on of these sanctions too btw, helping keep poor people down. Bravo to the brave US and EU.
@Mick Jordan: Naw that was Michael Noonan. Slighly wider around the waste than Putin, Mick.
@Larry Doherty: Sorry, I meant waist, not waste. Freudian slip, old boy.
Oh please f*ck off Billy with your Trotskyite bs. AAA up yer ar$e, they’re a bunch of fakes.
@Joe Corleone: Still working that out, Joe, or is it in. No fakes for you in that department, eh Joe??.
Veronica. The Sanctions are the direct result of Russian actions. They want them lifted then all they have to do is withdraw all it Military and Support from Eastern Ukraine and Occupied Crimea pay restoration to Ukraine for the damage and death they have caused.
Russia is loving the sanctions, Europe not so much.
@Jason Culligan:
Hear, hear Jason. Not to mention the effect our wonderful sanctions are having on the lives of ordinary Russian people. I guess that’s the price they have to pay for having an elected leader that we no longer have any use for or approve of.
Among many examples is the automotive industry, where due to competitive costs Hyundai, Volkswagen, Ford and others who manufacture in Russia, now are exporting to Mexico, the Middle East, Georgia and Africa, with an eye to further expansion if logistics and costs are favorable. Textiles, a once dowdy soviet style industry that crashed during perestroika is gathering steam again, without the ‘dowdy’ or the ‘soviet’ and with a growing volume of finished goodsexported globally under known brands. Though it started later, the digital economy in Russia is growing dynamically, with systems introduced in both the public and private sectors, from e banking to streamlined documentation. The Ubers of the world are all here, aware that Russia has one of the strongest e-commerce growth curves relative to population.Ease of doing business in Russia has improved in the past five years from a high in the 90’s to a current 52, targeting the 20’s in the next three to four years.
When I read about Russia’s desperate state of affairs in the international media, or hear it preached from political pulpits, I wonder what kind of looking glass sees such a dismal virtual reality. Where is the threat? Russia is not the evil Soviet empire, it is not interested in playing global missionary or exporting “isms”. The best diplomacy is fair trade, and all it takes is a visit and a willingness to explore reality. https://goo.gl/sUcYeO
Padraig. Have you ever thought of taking your comedy act on tour. You would make a fortune. “Russia loves the Sanctions” priceless.
@Mick Jordan:
Mick if you removed your head from your arse you would know they have caused more problems for Europe while rallied and galvanised the Russian economy and actually made her economically stronger. And while all these sanctions have been in place has become the world’s largest exporter of wheat.
Meanwhile, the sanctions placed on Syria have contributed to the death, in the vicinity of 100.000 children.
Yeah right Comrade Pádraig, that’ll explain why the rouble has tanked during the last couple of years. Economy massively skewed towards oil/gas exports and all. Still, keep up with the Orwell-esque ‘weakness is strength’ spiel if it gets you that paycheck!
@Harry Whitehead:
For every action, there is an equal reaction. You lose all credibility with using the outdated placeholder, but anyway. Agriculture is one of the fastest growing sectors, it has now surpassed arms exports even with many new deals signed. I love people that for one have not a clue about Russia.
I consider it an added bonus that my comments clearly annoy you so much Mr. Corleone.
Maybe the pensioners should look to their dear president for s stipend….
Vladimir Putin’s Net Worth in 2015 was the range of €100 BILLION , making him the richest man in the world ! ! !
Link for that Judy?
HAHAH Judy – you just consumed Western (dis) information well done.
You still haven’t explained why the Russian economy pancaked after the collapse in oil prices, comrade.
@Harry Whitehead: it didn’t the value of the Ruble dropped – what happens when a currency is worth, less against say the euro or dollar. What has happened in the UK? Where there is a down there is an up.
@Tweety McTweeter: 95% of Crimea are ethnic Russian and it was part of Russia up to the 1950s. Crimea is as Russian as the Shankill Rd is unionist and loyalist.
Padraig. If the Sanctions are such a great thing for the Russian economy why are the Russians constantly complaint about them and looking for them to be lifted? Not exactly logical now is it?
Comrade Pádraig reminds me of Comical Ali denying that there were American tanks in Baghdad…even as they were rumbling in th background…
@Mick Jordan: Of course the economy would benefit from not sanctions. The sticking point is how it rallied and strengthened the economy. Clearly evident if you could be bothered looking. Not to mention being a fanboy of said sanctions is just punishing Europe further, however, that does often seem to be your favoured narrative.
@Harry Whitehead: And you just remind me of an empty shirt, but what can you do.
Terrible news.. it’s one of a very few networks not affected by Western propaganda’ unfortunately it will probably see the same faith as Press TV did a few years back, being cut from all major Satellite providers Sky/Virgin etc etc also… In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
@Jay Murphy:
They’re not affected by Western propaganda because they’re owned by the Kremlin who have their own agenda.
This only adds to RT’s credibility to me and probably to anyone else with some brains left.
@Jason Culligan: You really should seek payment for your love of disinformation, you really do deserve money for all your hard wok.
Pádraig, are you denying that RT is state-owned?
@Jason Culligan: At least they tell us when the US bombs hospitals which SKY and BBC cover up. Also they have highlighted the billions in arms that are sold to despots by US, France and Britain while these hypocrites cry about human rights and war crimes. That’s not propaganda but a fact.
@Jason Culligan:
RT has been accused of being “state-run” or dismissed as influenced by the Kremlin because it receives state funding.
To boot, from GlobalMediaWars.com:
“Its motto is “question more,” but it’s clear who supplies the answers to many of the questions on RT: the Kremlin.”
Glenn Beck on Fox News referred to RT as “state-run” and the “Pravda of today.”
And people have used this as a way to dismiss RT’s content, along with its mission of news with a Russian perspective. NPR “On the Media” host Bob Garfield’s remarks:
“Though they have the look and the feel of maybe BBC or CNN International, just ’cause it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck doesn’t make it a duck.”
But let’s look at the mission and funding of the BBC.
According to its charter, its goals include representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities and bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK.
While BBC World Service, which broadcasts to the world on radio, on TV and online, providing news and information in 32 languages, is funded by a government grant, it also recently received a significant sum of money from the US government according to reports.
And what about other international networks?
France 24’s mission is “to cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world” and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the public-funded holding company Audiovisuel Exterieur de la France (AEF)
The German Deutsche Welle’s goal is to “promote understanding of Germany as an independent nation with its roots in European culture and as a liberal, democratic, constitutional state based on the rule of law.” It’s budget is made up of funds allocated by the federal government from German tax revenues, according to its website.
And here in the US, it’s the Corporation of Public Broadcasting that provides funds to public TV and radio stations. According to its website, “when Congress created CPB, it declared that developing public media is…“of appropriate and important concern” to the federal government. By law, 95 percent of CPB’s appropriation from the federal government goes to support local television and radio stations, programming and improvements to the public broadcasting system.
Funding for PBS programs, for example, comes from a variety of sources, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and government agencies.
And outside the US, it’s the Broadcasting Board of Governors that transmits its message. The board encompasses all U.S. civilian international broadcasting: Voice of America(VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio and TV Martí, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN)—Radio Sawa and Alhurra Television.
It broadcasts in 59 languages to an estimated weekly audience of 165 million people via radio, TV, the Internet and other new media.
While its principles include being “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States, and the capability to provide a surge capacity to support United States foreign policy objectives during crises abroad,” according to it’s website.
So call RT “state-funded” if you must, but if you want to “call a duck a duck,” as NPR’s host so eloquently put it, you might want to consider the pond we’re all swimming in.
And let us not forget one of the most interesting subsites on RT, there very (enlightening)
Now please (try) and tell me how mainstream media is not the mouthpiece for a select few interests worldwide. Maybe the reason RT is winning so many public awards, is, in fact, more often than not, it is far more worthwhile as a varied new source.
@Pádraig Ó Raghaill: •
RT’s 2015 budget: $220 million / €193 million / £143 million
• US-government funded BBG in 2015: $721 million
• BBC World Service: $375 million / £245 million (rough annual budget)
• Deutsche Welle (Germany’s publicly funded broadcaster): $332 million / €294 million
Put another way: The budgets of RT, Sputnik and Rossiya Segodnya combined are still smaller than the funding received by the BBG and the BBC World Service.
Unbelievable Pat, that is stunning.
It’s ironic that RT is complaining about freedom of speech in the UK while, back home in Russia, disagreeing with the Kremlin can get a media outlet shut down or taken over by the state.
Still, they’re probably right in attributing this to part of a wave of new sanctions.
@Jason Culligan: Western media funded (controlled) by the big political parties and business interests who, lets face it, decide who is going to be the government and mould public opinion accordingly with trashy stories, leaks, etc.
It could have been in response to this https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/362856-episode-max-keiser-980/
Sad news. RT has been consistently one of the best news channels out there(with Press TV). No bullshit. There is still a small bit of bias from programmes like Crosstalk but compared to BBC, RTÉ, ITV and all of the American channels, it’s gospel.
@Guybrush Threepwood: It’s a Kremlin mouthpiece. If you’re ok with journalists being disappeared or jailed for reporting negatively of the Kremlin then yes, it’s a great channel.
When I had the time I used to watch them all from CNN, RT, BBC, Sathiyam, to PressTV and try to blend that news in with other direct contact sources to try to sift through the raw diet to form an opinion. It’s very time consuming. As for RT, their documentaries are great, especially the ones about exploring places not normally reachable and the lives of people there. Also their news crews from battlefronts make the western media look dire. It’s not all Kremlin soundbites. They have a habit of breaking stories that force the west to cover them after being embarrassed into it. That would be it’s main value. Western media, or even any media, left to its own devices just becomes undiluted propaganda and lies for the braindead. Balance is always needed. It looks like the US is definitely spoiling for a war with Russia now. That should concern us all. The first signs of war are always a clampdown on available sources of media. The first casualty of war is…
This is very dangerous for free speech basically if the government doesn’t agree or like what you are broadcasting they can freeze your bank account ? WTF ?
@JJ: ask RTE and the BBC all about it. They used censorship for years. I remember all those actors’ voices on the BBC and then silence from RTE – Section 31, I think it was called.
JJ. They are not Freezing any accounts. They are closing down the accounts and telling RT that they no longer want to do business with them as is the right of any company. All money in the account will be returned to RT in full.
NatWest and HSBC have been getting bad press in the UK of late for bank account closures where the accounts are under investigation by HMRC for money laundering/fraudulent activity. If the account is under investigation then legally they can not provide a reason for the closure.
There has been a lot of action in this space so nothing new here.
Russia Today is the fox news of Russia but rather than republicans over democrats it’s putin over the western world
I look forward to the plaintive mewling of the outraged putinistas.
“How the news is made at Russia Today”:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-the-truth-is-made-at-russia-today?utm_term=.aaAGPKkYE1#.bq4MpQnR2j
This reads like a John le Carre novel !
Richard Crowley’s interview with the Russian ambassador on Friday , News at one , is an eye opener to say the least . Lasts 8 minutes .
It’s NOT Oliver Callan ………… It really is Maxim Peshkov !!!!!!!
The Kremlin mouthpiece is complaining about freedom of speech?!? That’s pretty ironic.
I don’t even see how this is a freedom of speech issue anyway.
That’s the new right wing attack. They get to say whatever they want no matter how outrageous and whoever disagrees or refuses to support them is “against free speech”. Ironically they’re defending Putin as a defender of it while he’s had reporters assassinated and they’ll defend Trump while his supporters call for reporters to be jailed, comedy shows to be taken off air and the 19th amendment repealed….
I love rt. The Russian version of fox news
Unbelievable , spreading democracy around the world my behind. They done this too with PressTV on Sky a few years back. Obviously RT has got a huge audience in the UK and the “spreaders of demcracy” do not like it….lol….what a bunch of pathetic miserable human beings..
More rubbish ‘Johnnathan’. PressTV was taken off-air because it refused to pay a fine imposed by Ofcom. It had broken UK broadcasting regulations by broadcasting footage of a Canadian-Iranian man under duress (tortured offscreen) while passing it off as a ‘live interview’.
One would think that such a patriotic institution as RT would keep their money in a Russian bank. Anyway NatWest are under no obligation to do business with anyone they don’t want to.
#Putinbots come out to play, keep on trolling or lose your pay…#
@Harry Whitehead: Harry you are doing an injustice to yourself with that comment.
EU,US,want to take Russia to war,its terrible.none of these so called leaders sons and daughters will be on the front line.
RT’s daily “reporting”:
America is bad, the dollar is going to collapse and the government wants to bring in martial law and take away your freedoms. America is really bad if you didn’t hear us say that 10 times already. Let’s bring on some eccentric professor from some obscure university in the US who says something that mildly fits our agenda that America is bad just to confirm what we are saying here.
America is in chaos and is becoming a third world country. Despite the fact that virtually nobody from the US moves to Russia, but loads of Russians and people from all over the world jump at the opportunity to move to the US, America is falling apart. Let’s interview some paranoid conspiracy nutcase via Skype and he will give us the low down on everything going on in America because you won’t hear it from the “mainstream media”, i.e. the media.
Now we have the Kaiser report, where some shouty, giggly man and his wife will tell us about all the fraud etc from Wall Street and Western banks and give us absolutely nothing to back it up. But he, nor any of the other Kremlin mouthpieces here will mention Putin’s vast personal wealth, nor the fact that all his serious opponents seem to die in suspicious circumstances. We’ll never mention the fact that politicians in the West come and go but Putin has held the reigns of power for 16 solid years now. Stay tuned, and after our commercial break (which we included after no ad breaks after many years in a vain attempt to make it not as obvious we are totally funded by the Kremlin) will will tell you why America is bad. All that and more of why America is bad coming up on RT.
Stay tuned!
@Qwerty: Clearly you have been watching too much Fox News
The thing I like about is that they interview Americans living in the usa who are scathing in their attacks on america. just try that in Russia.
Propaganda, sanctions, fascism…. All important, but this decision better not affect Francis ‘Viper’ Higgins’ pay! Viper’s View on RT’s Youtube channel is a cultural institution hai
About time too, I say. From what I’ve seen of RT it’s nothing more than a channel dedicated to exposing the fine work and decent, unbiased standard of our beloved western media. Besides RT rarely has anything useful or good to say about the royal family, tv show contestants, soap operas, British cuisine and that most lovable and popular buffoon Mr. Boris Johnston.
Come to think of it, I think Boris should change his name to something less Rusian and more English media friendly like Harold, Rupert or Nigel
I see the Putinbots are playing funny games with the algorithms again.
rt is high comedy. Harry hill wouldn’t look out of place on.it.
Don’t eat the glowing sushi if you are invited to a Japanese restaurant by the KGB.
This is very bad news for Nat West, they have engaged in a political decision ( one must assume at the behest of the British Government) which can only damage the credibility of the bank and its share holders. Bring the political stooge for the Tory Government is not a wise commercial decision.
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