Bank of Scotland

Friday the 4th of September.

George Galloway claims Bank of Scotland trying to wreck his life.

Written by Xander Elliott.

Politician and broadcaster George Galloway has threatened to take the Bank of Scotland to court for allegedly closing his bank accounts without explanation or notice.

The former MP claimed on social media that the bank, which is owned by the Lloyds Banking Group, was in breach of the law and was trying to wreck my family life.

He wrote on social media, 39 years ago I opened a personal bank account with Bank of Scotland in Byers Road, Glasgow.

Yesterday, without explanation or notice, they closed my accounts.

My parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into these accounts.

So I thought maybe I can set up a business and, you know, like heal people, you know? What actually happened is my ex-wife was in the library, and a book just jumped off the shelf, and so she picked it up, and it was called Joe the Diviner about this Irish healer who worked out of his garden shed.

So she gave it to me and said, "I think you need to read this." So I, I read it in, like, a day or two days or something, and I thought, "Well, if he can do it, I can do it." So anyway, I wanted to start this business, but what happened, when we moved back from New Zealand, I got arrested at the passport office for conspiracy to defraud the Bank of Scotland and holding a false travel document from years previous.

So I was looking at a long prison sentence.

Anyway, I was on bail for a couple of years, [clears throat] learning all this healing stuff, practicing, getting testimonials, you know, getting the website together.

It's mad how things are almost going full cycle in Liverpool.

Do you remember when FSG came in and saved the club for administration and obviously the deal with Hicks and Gillette, Bank of Scotland, obviously dark days, but it's funny.

The figure quoted, as someone dug this out today, the figure quoted at the time was FSG paid around 328, 330 million quid to save Liverpool, you know, to buy Liverpool basically at the time.

And now that could be pretty much the value of the shirt deal, just the sponsorship, like how football's changed.

And then Becton went broke.

And one of the biggest losers in that was Bank of Scotland, which was, you know, one of the nationalised UK banks.

And that just points to how the system has changed because that can't happen this time because there isn't sort of major banking lenders that you can deal with.

You've got 50 private credit firms and special purpose vehicles on every side.

have done really well

yeah so that's a good one but I so basically to come back to the property that's you know I was making good money even just like contracting myself it was good money but with very little outgoing so my dad he worked for Bank of Scotland his whole life and he dealt with like business clients in his banking days and he was always like if you get any money be smart about it and get into property and get a portfolio and you know you'll be like I've

Yeah.

Retired early.

They're now in Kiev and the negotiations are not quite so convivial.

And banking tyranny after 39 years as a pristine, flawless customer of the Bank of Scotland, now Lloyds Bank, Without warning or explanation, my bank accounts were closed, which is a part of a pattern when you dissent in the Western world these days.

Liberty? What liberty? You'll read about it in my book, The Strange Death of Western Liberty.

And in Iran, it looks like...

It's only a 20,000 word tract and I can almost write that in an afternoon.

But the strange death of Western Liberty has been going on for quite some time.

In the very week I signed the contract to write that book, after 39 years as a flawless customer of the Bank of Scotland, now the Lloyds Banking Group, bailed out by the British taxpayer to the tune of billions of pounds, and with still a bit of British government influence in the bank, if you know what I mean, after 39 years, without notice, although they are obligated by law to give me, a legacy customer, six months notice, Everybody else they are obligated to give three months notice, but someone who's been with them as long as I have, six months notice.

I got zero notice, and worse, zero explanation.