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April 22, 2010
Filed Under (Banking, Intimidation) by Keith on 22-04-2010
I scrolled up and down but couldn’t find “England”! There is a “United Kingdom”, but united kingdom means just that. It is a combination of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK is NOT a country as such. I will not put the UK as my country of birth, I might just as well put EU! (No doubt it will come to that eventually if our Government in Brussels decides it). I tried to put England in the box, but it wouldn’t accept it (obviously) and it wouldn’t let me move on to the next page until I had ticked a country of birth. So I thought “fook ‘em!” and signed out. They can’t want my new phone number and address very much. There isn’t even a means of contacting them by phone, so I shall be paying them a visit later today to complain about the fact that they are railroading people into denying their own country.
6 Comments posted on "Whatever happened to “England”?"
Comments:
Invader_Stu on April 22nd, 2010 at 12:45 pm #
It’s funny the timing of this. I had my own run in with Barclays this morning. I was trying to access my account in ‘England’ and while doing so I accidentally locked myself out by using the wrong pin number. So I phoned up to get it sorted out. The guy on the other end of the phone could not get his head around the fact that I did not live in England or the UK. I told him about five time that I could not visit my local branch because I was in Holland. Eventually he seemed to get it but he had to stick with his script and at the end of the call tried to offer me insurance that is only usable in the UK.
Wendy on April 22nd, 2010 at 12:59 pm #
It seems that the Government, the loacal councils and the big institutions are phasing out England. Are they trying to destroy our way of life, our culture and heritage by subtle means?
Kevin 'In Salford' on April 22nd, 2010 at 11:33 pm #
“update my personal details”?? I smell a rat! Was this by email by any chance? If so then it was very fortunate for you that you did quit!
Keith on April 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 am #
No Kevin, it wasn’t an email, I’m a bit more astute that to answer spam. It was on the opening page of my online banking. I went into the bank and complained, but the Personal Banker said that “in barclays now England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland don’t exist anymore. It’s all United Kingdom now as far as they are concerned, live with it!”. So I said that I wouldn’t update “until they recognise that I was English! Live with it!” They still have my old address, old phone number and ex-email address. Sod ‘em!
Kevin 'In Salford' on April 24th, 2010 at 12:24 am #
I get the point, and a very good one it is too! I’m surprised at Barclays as they have traditional English roots. However…….. and things are now multinational…… and the UK is now internationally insignificant…… and England is now about as insignificant to the world as a rainy day is in LA……. And not only that, the default language of my ant-virus software is in Spanish! (Maybe I too should complain more?)
Anji on April 27th, 2010 at 10:49 am #
Hopefully they’ll feel insulted when they travel abroad and some foreigner tells them that there is no difference between them and a Scot. Hmmm, Barclays… I used to work for them Post a comment
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