I think you missed my point entirely. We had a largely publicy owned bank, which has been 'given' away on the cheap to some form of mutual organisation. So, the general public lose out (for the second time) in favour of the members of the Co-Op.



Incidentally, the co-op bank is not very good. My partner has been shouting at them all week for taking money from a bank account and then providing him with false informatio on the matter; my wife keeps the records of a charity and they asked for information unnecessarily (and back-tracked when challenged) and I have a credit card and have had words them in the past for pointlessly blocking transactions. Accordingly, I very rarely use the card because I can never trust them to honour transactions. They are my only 3 experiences of them and so as you can imagine I am not impressed!

I stand corrected *tips hat*

In the Which? survey of customer satisfaction, the Co-op's Smile online bank came second (89%) and the Co-op Bank came third (86%).

But we can't believe them, can we, they only had sample sizes of 570 and 604, so let's just go by what you say.

I mean, you were spot on with NHS satisfaction rates.





p.s. First place went to First Direct (93%), whilst Lloyds trailed way back with 58%.

Do you ever have any successful and satisfactory dealings with [ianyone[/i Mr. Dallington?

He's always been 100% satisfied with the Daily Mail.

Had some excellent dealings with the RFL on a couple of occasions.

The account holders transferring from Lloyds will become part-owners of the Co-op Bank.



Speaking as an ex-Halifax customer myself, who voted (in the minority) against de-mutualisation, if I had remained with the Halifax (and thence into Lloyds), I think I'd be pleased to be going back to a mutual.

It does seem a bit crap though that these people were paid-out for their share of the Halifax and are now (it would appear) getting a share of another mutual for nowt.

Those members of the Co-op being in the main .... ?



The general public ???

I love reading Dally's total misunderstanding of anything left wing and political.



I'm still chuckling at his assertion that Marxism = Leninism the other week. That was the point that it suddenly became obvious that he had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

Pssst! Shall we mention anarcho-syndicalism in his presence?

Or a subset thereof?

Always makes he laugh that there's a whole, albeit small,group of deluded people out there who like to try to intellectualise over theoretical nuances of theoretical socialism / communism and spend huge portions of the life pretending to "fight" for some imaginary cause / imminent revolution! They are just stupid. Often teachers and people with beards. None of them have ever considered what real life would be if their fantasies became reality. Some of the saddest people you could ever meet. Might adopt one as a pet.