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Originally Posted by Neil

It might be but you want to be able to understand the person on the phone telling you how much you owe them

The local branch of a very British bank where I do the majority of my banking has members of staff with foreign accents which some people find hard to understand. So just saying bank with a British bank doesn't mean you will get a local accent even over the counter.

Originally Posted by Royboy39

And.............It's gone Tits up.............

Indeed it has but that couldn't be avoided by individual account holders at grass roots level. That's the point I'm trying to make. Put your money in a bank which has it's HQ in this country but how do you know which foreign countries they invest in?

Gone are the days when we had 'Blackburn Trustee Savings Bank' and its head office was on Lord Street West in Blackburn. You knew where you were in them days.

Originally Posted by polly

If banking is 'international' why are my bank charges still at British rates and not Indian? I would happily put up with not being able to communicate with the bank if they charged me one rupee.

This is the trouble with this country we except what we get instead of demanding what we want. Our politicians have this attitude and it means we as a country never get what we need which in this case is our own banking system back, we need to be in charge not America, we are in this mess because of them

And whilst the international interaction was getting people a good rate on their savings and affordable mortgages was anybody complaining? Were people demanding higher interest on their loans and lower interest on their savings? Of course not. America isn't 'in charge'. Economics is a complicated subject.