HSBC headquarters to relocate from London to Birmingham
Discussion
sirtyro said:
Could it be scaremongering before the election.....trying to get the Tories in power?
Could be but if it would save several hundred million a year, it will certainly be considered. Any bad feeling in the UK would be balanced by the gratitude of the country they went to.Frankly, if I was running any sort of international financial institution I'd be s
tting myself at the possibility of Balls getting back in number 11 and would consider moving anywhere.Sooner hsbc pisses back off to HK the better ill like it.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...tts.
fk em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...t
ts.f
k em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.4v6 said:
Sooner hsbc pisses back off to HK the better ill like it.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...tts.
fk em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.
I don't think they'r talking about a total withdrawal from British markets. Just moving their HQ.They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...t
ts.f
k em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.Frankly I don't blame hem for considering it with the way the industry is being spanked for tax.
And Ed Balls can fq right off. The biggest reason they are considering this is that they are frightened to death you'll get your hands on the economy, fq it right up and drain them of tax you cretin.
4v6 said:
Sooner hsbc pisses back off to HK the better ill like it.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...tts.
fk em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.
As a customer in 3 countries I understand the sentiment, believe me. They are worse than hopeless (except First Direct in the UK who are brilliant). It was 4 countries but they closed down one branch and wait for it... instead of transferring everyones balances to another HSBC they SOLD the customers to a fvcking sThey actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...t
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k em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.t little unheard of local bank and transferred all our balances there!!! Now that said; wishing them to leave the UK is idiotic, do you have any idea how many people they employ, directly and indirectly and how much tax that generates?4v6 said:
Sooner hsbc pisses back off to HK the better ill like it.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...tts.
fk em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.
Then you are a fThey actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...t
ts.f
k em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.king idiot and a moron, to pardon my french.You have an issue with HSBC Retail that will stay as Midland Bank.
When they move the HQ, they are doing it for corporate and investment branches which make the money and pay the vast majority of tax.
I presume they will keep a skeleton staff in the UK to have presence on the GMT time zone and to do some trades, or more likely they will have traders over in HK that work the UK hours.
Might want to think about what you write when you have an issue with a section of a company and wish them gone, when the parts that generate most money are the bits that are going and you don't use them.
sirtyro said:
Could it be scaremongering before the election.....trying to get the Tories in power?
Imagine that!Thing is the vast majority of people couldn't give a s
t if these people left, and the Tories stance as the party of big business (we know) is doing them no favours in the polls.Edited by MarshPhantom on Saturday 25th April 07:28
MarshPhantom said:
sirtyro said:
Could it be scaremongering before the election.....trying to get the Tories in power?
Imagine that!Thing is the vast majority of people couldn't give a s
t if these people left, and the Tories stance as the party of big business (we know) is doing them no favours in the polls.Edited by MarshPhantom on Saturday 25th April 07:28
I can never understand this anti Tory vehemence spouted by Labour supporters that "The Tory's just look after big business". Thank god they are. Don't they realise that these evil big businesses employ thousands of workers and pay millions in Tax revenue? What do they want? A massive increase in the Public sector and no Big businesses? Remember the Public sector and the employees pay Zero Tax, so who will fill the revenue gap if there are no big businesses? Us poor suckers who are left in the private sector, that's who!
JensenA said:
I can never understand this anti Tory vehemence spouted by Labour supporters that "The Tory's just look after big business". Thank god they are. Don't they realise that these evil big businesses employ thousands of workers and pay millions in Tax revenue? What do they want? A massive increase in the Public sector and no Big businesses? Remember the Public sector and the employees pay Zero Tax, so who will fill the revenue gap if there are no big businesses? Us poor suckers who are left in the private sector, that's who!
I mentioned big business, I think "the banks" might have been more apt.Jonsnow606 said:
or chemseley wood, or kitts green, kings Norton... and so on...
you can go both ways... if you catch my drift
When we we looking to buy our first house, my wife was a nurse at the QE and I was working at the Lucas Research centre in Shirley, and my parents had just moved from Liverpool to Solihul. you can go both ways... if you catch my drift
Loudy McFatass said:
eatcustard said:
I recommend all the HSBC people moving up from London to move to Sparkbrook, its a top place to live. 
Or Alum Rock is another good shout.A good friend told us that we shouldn't buy a house in Northfield, so we spent 4 weekends looking at houses in Whealey Castle.
Turned out they meant not to buy a house in the whealey castle part of Northfield.
Ended up in Rubery.
MarshPhantom said:
JensenA said:
I can never understand this anti Tory vehemence spouted by Labour supporters that "The Tory's just look after big business". Thank god they are. Don't they realise that these evil big businesses employ thousands of workers and pay millions in Tax revenue? What do they want? A massive increase in the Public sector and no Big businesses? Remember the Public sector and the employees pay Zero Tax, so who will fill the revenue gap if there are no big businesses? Us poor suckers who are left in the private sector, that's who!
I mentioned big business, I think "the banks" might have been more apt.In the 2000's the UK government met with senior bankers regularly, urging them to lend more and more to fuel the feel good factor. When that became unsustainable all of a sudden it is the banks fault for the government driving a debt fuelled economy.
The banks are not blame free but the government of the time is at least equally responsible for driving up the unsustainable level of debt that caused the 2008 crisis yet it seems that only the banks get blamed and the other responsible parties are now looking like they may get the keys to the piggy bank again, god help us if they do!
gruffalo said:
MarshPhantom said:
JensenA said:
I can never understand this anti Tory vehemence spouted by Labour supporters that "The Tory's just look after big business". Thank god they are. Don't they realise that these evil big businesses employ thousands of workers and pay millions in Tax revenue? What do they want? A massive increase in the Public sector and no Big businesses? Remember the Public sector and the employees pay Zero Tax, so who will fill the revenue gap if there are no big businesses? Us poor suckers who are left in the private sector, that's who!
I mentioned big business, I think "the banks" might have been more apt.In the 2000's the UK government met with senior bankers regularly, urging them to lend more and more to fuel the feel good factor. When that became unsustainable all of a sudden it is the banks fault for the government driving a debt fuelled economy.
The banks are not blame free but the government of the time is at least equally responsible for driving up the unsustainable level of debt that caused the 2008 crisis yet it seems that only the banks get blamed and the other responsible parties are now looking like they may get the keys to the piggy bank again, god help us if they do!
4v6 said:
Sooner hsbc pisses back off to HK the better ill like it.
They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...tts.
fk em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.
Notwithstanding all that's been said above why don't you just move the account to another bank?They actually told me to "come back next week" when I tried to get my account unlocked...the cheek of it, a customer attempting to access his own account gets told "we're too busy" and to get get an appointment...t
ts.f
k em, I hope the door smashes their back doors in when they leave.You wouldn't need to go to HSBC to do that, just the new bank.
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