NATWEST BANKING HAS COLLAPSED...

Just an aside from all the election stuff. But the Natwest cash machines, online site and phone banking system seems to have collapsed. In the week banks pay billions to themselves the hard working people of Britain can not get to their money at the end of the month.

VOTE BNP AND GET RID OF THE BANKERS

***UPDATE***
CLICK HERE FOR SOMETHING I HAVE JUST SEEN, NATWEST VOTED MOST RELIABLE ONLINE BANKING SITE... TELL THAT TO ALL THE CUSTOMERS WHO CAN'T GET TO THEIR MONEY TODAY.

***UPDATE 2PM***
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST.

A spokeswoman at the firm denied that the bank's systems were hit by an outage, and insisted to The Register that NatWest had simply suffered "slow response times but it never went down".

We phoned NatWest's phone service, which seemed to suggest a different story.

"We are currently experiencing a technical issue," said a recorded message that added NatWest had marked the matter as "urgent" and hoped to "resolve it shortly".

When pressed on what had gone wrong, the NatWest spokeswoman told us: "I've been able to access my own account this morning."

Sadly, for many other NatWest customers, the banking system has done a pretty good job of flicking them the V-sign today.

The taxpayer-owned bank RBS owns NatWest, so maybe keeping its cash inaccessible is good for UK.plc in some strange way.

The Twitterati are out in force, meanwhile, with the site bristling with reports that show the level of feeling about NatWest's banking system on what is for many people pay day.

"Dear Natwest Online Banking, I don't mind the old design, or the fact it's a bit clunky. I do mind it NOT LOADING. Thanks, Caius," says one of the more polite posts.

There's plenty more complaints , but according to the NatWest spokeswoman "there are no problems now at all, actually".

So that's alright then

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