How are Santander allowed to take over everything??

TangoSixteen said:
What concerns me is that the Goverment must have KNOWN of this European competition law before bailing them out?

If not then I am disgusted at their incompetance, and if they DID know, then I am disgusted they carried on in the knowledge that we would eventually have to sell these assets to someone else.
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As long as Santander don't go over 25% market share they can buy whoever they like without the competition commission looking at them.
 
FFS if I wanted to read the ****ing dailymail I'd buy a copy we don't need you posting every story on their website here every 10 minutes.
 
Tefal said:
FFS if I wanted to read the ****ing dailymail I'd buy a copy we don't need you posting every story on their website here every 10 minutes.
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You realise that might just open the sluice-gates and create even more DailyFail threads just to P you off....:p






*opens Daily Mail website*
 
LOL Winnar!! My account is still based down in England, so I am not affected. Since I am now in Scotland, I can STAY with Natwest and use the RBS branches up here.

So hopefully I can use Natwest Branches down south, and RBS branches up north, and avoid Santander completely. Forever and ever.

Cheers for that number Simulatorman, very useful, and I hope it helps someone else out too....

So Santander, FFFFUUUUUUU, you are not getting your greedy Spanish mits on my monies!!

Still, at least this thread may have brought this to the attention of others.
 
I was going to move to them this week for their £100 and Cash ISA.

Decided against it after I heard about their customer service and such.
 
PMKeates said:
To be fair, it was based in Hong Kong, which was a British colony at the time. HSBC is a bank of British national origin.
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HSBC was set up in Hong Kong and China at roughly the same time. They didn't have a significant presence in the UK until the acquisition of Midland Bank and the creation of HSBC Holdings which required them to move the base from Hong Kong and Shanghai to London.

But yes, it is a British Company in that respect.
 
simulatorman said:
Before you carry on to huff and puff you might want to do this:
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Cheers :) Turns out that I'm one of the 2M as I have a few accounts at the Plymouth branch so I'm requesting the forms to stick with NatWest. I'm glad I read this.

edit: maybe not, I put my sort code into the checker on the RBS site site and it says I'm sticking with them, happy days :)
http://rbsbranchinformation.co.uk/Home/Personal
 
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Castiel said:
You realise that might just open the sluice-gates and create even more DailyFail threads just to P you off....:p






*opens Daily Mail website*
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it's not just the daily mail though it's any of the "oh look I've just started reading a news website I must post all of the stories on the front page" :/
 
vonhelmet said:
I know it's Dailyfail, but... that's the paper I buy and read and get all my news and views from.

Is what it basically means.
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rubbish.

The daily mail had the best coverage of the story. Simple as that.

People that get their knickers in a twist about where their news comes from, are the ones that are not intelligent enough to read between the lines, and work out the truth from the obvious journolistic slants that every paper bar the uber broadsheets puts on their news articles.

I could understand if the story was totally unfounded, but its a statement of FACT of what is actually happening. How or where it comes from (as long as its not from AboveTopSecret or something) shouldnt make a blind bit of difference in this case.
 
Lol another thread. Great. Massive fail for how international corporations work.

Gotta admit though, there are few newspapers better at getting their target audience angry and riled up. I hope no tea was spilt.
 
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