Bradford + Bingley no more

agsnu

scott_lithgows wrote: »

Yeah, thats roughly what i,m thinking as well,sad to see it go but also annoyed that Santander are not going to run it as a stand alone business.
Also a bit p*ssed off that the accounts were sold to the Spanish whilst every other failure has been kept British owned.

There's just no pleasing some people. You're upset that Santander won't !!!! money up the wall for some brand which belongs to an institution which went bust? How does that make any sense? It's not like the B&B brand makes any sense any more anyway: all the Santander-B&B business does is retail deposits, which don't really make any money in and of themselves, do they?

Oh, and the only other case I can think of of a massive move of deposits to another institution was the Heritable Bank and Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander transfers to ING Group. You know, as in Internationale Nederlanden Groep.

Don't forget that savings balances are liabilities, not assets.

simon_templar_2

BASFORDLAD wrote: »

Is the any need to be such a total f**kwit?

Care to explain yourself?

simon_templar_2

BarclaysManager wrote: »

Didn't you know? He's a Knights Templar for Grupo Santander; he's just not honest about it.

And Barclays are really good arent they :rotfl:

dc110

It was measured in years at the time

fair enough, thanks

scott_lithgows

agsnu wrote: »

There's just no pleasing some people. You're upset that Santander won't !!!! money up the wall for some brand which belongs to an institution which went bust? How does that make any sense? It's not like the B&B brand makes any sense any more anyway: all the Santander-B&B business does is retail deposits, which don't really make any money in and of themselves, do they?

Not upset just not happy!
I can see that i,m in the minority in this,off on hols tomorrow but will pop in and move my ISA,passbook and cashcard accounts to another bank/building society as soon as it is possible.
Thanks to all for your opinions.

simon_templar_2

Good riddance to you.

Extant

simon_templar wrote: »

And Barclays are really good arent they :rotfl:

I never said that.

All of the high street banks have their poor performers and their good performers, just like any other business - service is, unfortunately, inconsistent. There's horror stories and praise for every one of us, so why would I try to elevate Barclays above HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds, etc.?

Abbey, however, is just like pissing in an ocean of piss.

scott_lithgows

simon_templar wrote: »

Good riddance to you.

You MUST work for them with that attitude,exactly why I left before.

Inactive

BarclaysManager wrote: »

Abbey, however, is just like pissing in an ocean of piss.

:rotfl::rotfl:

That made me giggle..:D

Inactive

Inactive wrote: »

I suspect that very soon they will also be replaced with yet another red book with Santander on it.

It seems that I was right ..