Very poor showing from Lloyds. They should apologise to their customers.

Mr Blank should discipline the staff who have tried to mislead the public.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your letter of [date] detailing your commitment to Muslims in the UK and elsewhere.

It is clear from the public disclosure of your request in the form of a letter to the Islamic Bank of Britain that Lloyds-TSB has in fact made a request to IBB that will in real terms leave it no other option but to end its relationship with Interpal or at the very least have Interpals bank account frozen.

It is therefore obvious that your commitment to Muslims as detailed in your letter rings hollow and is in fact limited to appeasing groups and organisations that are in fact acting against Muslim interests and in particular those Muslims interests that wish to provide humanitarian aid to all of the Palestinian victims who are currently being systematically collectively punished as declared by the offices of the United Nations.

Your decision appears to be entirely political and not based on any charge laid at the feet of Interpal which could be proven in a British court. In fact any charges that have thus far been alleged against Interpal have remained unproven.

Lioyds-TSB on the one hand claims to be the friend of Muslims and the Muslim community and yet are clearly seen by your open 'threat' to IBB pro-actively seeking that Interpal an organisation which is entirely legally providing much needed humanitarian relief to the long standing suffering of all Palestinian victims should be denied any opportunity to do so using any of Lloyds-TSB facilities either directly or indirectly.

I find your response wholly inappropriate and disingenuous, more so your attempt to garner my support through deceit.

I am requesting that Lloyd-TSB should reconsider rather than prevaricate and provide all the assistance to Interpal in order that it can maintain its valuable humantitarian support for those who have been witnesses according to the United Nations a crime against humanity .

yours

All the readers must write a letter to Loyed TSB for publicly apologise.

Wendy...great letter. Would you mind if people use it?

Winner of Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel for Business & Commerce to return award in protest at banks actions against UK charity

By Tim Saunders, 10th December 2008

(Please visit the link below to sign a petition requesting Lloyds TSB to stop denying humanitarian aid to 5 million Palestinian refugees and forward to people you know)

http://www.petitiononline.com/FOSISPal/petition.html

Kettering Town Chairman Imraan Ladak will return his 2007 Lloyds TSB Asian Jewel Award (awarded for the extraordinary growth of DRC Locums and Locumlinx) after learning that the bank, recently bailed out by billions of pounds of British taxpayers money, are on the verge of ending humanitarian aid for up to five million Palestinian refugees in desperate need, by cutting off the charity Interpal’s (who have raised over £50m) banking facilities.

The Kettering Chairman feels he has no choice as “Lloyds TSB’s plans can only result in escalating the horrific suffering of innocent children, supported by those with racially motivated agendas. I no longer trust that Lloyds TSB follow the equal opportunities and anti-racist principles the Asian Jewel Awards are based upon. At Kettering Town, like the majority of British football clubs, we value success on and off the field equally. “Off the field” includes supporting and promoting humanitarian causes and dozens of charities and we won’t change these principles, even for a Goliath like Lloyds TSB.”

This evening, Kettering Town (leading scorers in the history of the FA Cup and first club to ever have a shirt sponsor) will continue their quest for FA Cup glory, wearing their Interpal shirts live on Setanta Sports, having displayed the Wateraid and Interpal charities instead of corporate sponsors regularly since July 2007. Gianfranco Zola, Les Ferdinand and Christian Karembeu are some of the legendary footballers that have played for Kettering Town in the charities shirts.

As most are aware, the beleaguered Palestinians have been the victims of ethnic cleansing and sixty years of human rights violations - condemned by 69 United Nations resolutions and almost every country in the world, resulting in a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. This slow genocide, described by former US President Jimmy Carter as “one the the greatest human rights crimes on earth” and the great Nelson Mandela as “apartheid” is solely because they were born Palestinian. However, the success of Interpal’s humanitarian efforts is at odds with the racially motivated aspirations of those behind the suffering who have made unsupported and damaging allegations against Interpal, with the sanction of the George Bush regime.

The UK Government and Charities commission on each occasion have investigated these allegations and found them to be without merit. Following a two year legal challenge, the Board of Deputies were forced into a substantial out of court settlement and a humiliating apology after having repeated such allegations

When Kettering Town agreed to display Interpal on its playing shirts, they received the congratulations and letters of support from several MP’s within the Labour Party, Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats.

In November 2008, it was reported that Lloyds TSB – the bank that had just received billions in aid from the taxpayer – were trying to stop Interpal from trading.

Kettering Town FC immediately contacted Lloyds TSB to ascertain why a charity, supported by the UK government and it’s main opposition parties, the United Nations and the UK Charities commission was under threat. Lloyds wrote back:

“Lloyds TSB does not hold or never has held accounts for Interpal. Furthermore, Lloyds TSB would not direct nor would it be appropriate for us to direct another institution on how to deal with its own customers.”

However Kettering Town FC are now in possession of a letter from Lloyds TSB (acting as a clearing bank) to IBB (with whom Interpal bank), dated 8th October 2008 which states:

“We are writing to you to give you notice that, from the date falling on the sixtieth calendar day following the date of this letter”..(Eid – the festival somewhat akin to Christmas)..“we do not wish you to transfer, receive, process or in any way deal with any funds, or in any way whatsoever (acting either as banker or agent on behalf of the Customer) be involved with any type of banking arrangements for Interpal…”

This letter clearly indicates that the information Lloyds TSB provided Kettering Town FC was inaccurate at best, downright misleading at worst.

Kettering [Town] have since written to the Lloyds TSB Chairman Sir Victor Blank, who was a Chair of UJS Hillel, a member of “Labour friends of Israel” and a Governor of Tel Aviv University (which sits on a site where scores of innocent Palestinian women and children once lived before their homes were bulldozed). Alas, it appeared Sir Victor Blank was too busy planning the Lloyds TSB/HBOS merger to reply to little old Kettering Town FC’s interest in starving children.

Kettering then wrote to Sir David Manning GCMG CVO who only joined the Lloyds TSB board in May 2008, having previously been an ambassador to Israel, sure that a newly appointed board member would have the time to explain why Lloyds TSB were trying to stop aid to the most desperate of people. To date they have had no response.

However Kettering Town FC have received renewed statements of support from MP’s who are trying to lobby our Prime Minister Gordon Brown to ask his good friend Sir Victor Blank to reverse this sickening act by Lloyds TSB.

We trust the Prime Minister will ensure race does not determine if banks process charitable donations.

please stop this evil and inhumane act ortherwise we and all that we know bank with you wil stop banking with you and go elshewere!!!

What is currently going on in Palestine is disgraceful...

I have just signed the petition at : http://www.petitiononline.com/FOSISPal/petition.html

I urge everyone who has not yet signed the petition, to do so !!!

May those innocents in Palestine be saved and SHAME on the GREEDY WARMONGERS !!!

Your move is no suprise, your morality is also no suprise and I for one don't bank with you but know a few who do and be sure that they shall stop banking with you until you stop your inhumane act.

Don’t Boycott Lloyds TSB!! Use the basic service from TSB e.g. keep £1 in your account and pay bills for free and etc. Don’t deposit any money or have savings account with TSB. Whoever can boycott Lloyds TSB and there is no detrimental effect on them, therefore Boycott them.