‘I’m not the only one who went through hell. Toxic banks have wrecked thousands of lives’: NOEL EDMONDS on how being driven to the very brink of suicide sparked a flood of responses from Mail on Sunday readers

‘It has been more than a decade since I fired the first shot in my David and Goliath battle with the giant Lloyds Banking Group.
In that time, I’ve done my best to make my case. I’ve set up a dedicated website, a Facebook platform, an internet radio station and a YouTube channel with more than 20 videos – all of which have generated a consistent flow of information and support.
But nothing has matched the scale of the response to my interview in last week’s Mail on Sunday, in which I outlined the devastating personal consequences of the way I was treated by HBOS – later taken over by Lloyds – and by one criminal bank manager, Mark Dobson, in particular…
…Quite simply, I am horrified at the scale of the damage to so many other livelihoods and lives. Haven’t we all grown up trusting high street banks? Their branches were fixtures, not only in our towns and cities, but in the way our lives ran.
Yet it is no exaggeration to say that thousands, possibly millions of us, instead of being helped have found our lives permanently damaged by the toxic UK financial system.’
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