My claims are now therefore against The Treasury and its agent, The Bank of England, FSA for their responsibility for failing to police the banking industry and enforce the Banking Act for the protection of bank customers.

Formal Declarations of complaint were lodged directly with the Bank of England by eight of us, two from each of the four main banks on 17th June 1997, and a month later with, The Treasury, DTI, Prime Minister.

During a year of correspondence we provided evidence on demand, as evidenced in this document, but the BOE prevaricated for a year whilst busy creating the FINANCIAL SERVICES QUANGO, FSA, which on the 1st JUNE 1998 took over the responsibility of the Bank of England in supposedly enforcing the Licence under which the bank’s are allowed to operate. In truth the BOE Complaint’s Department was ‘re-named’ and became the FSA, the staff of the BOE were transferred and the BoE maintained that they were no longer responsible, go the FSA, but the FSA said they were unable to take on complaints which occurred before they were created.

A further Declaration was lodged on the 19th January 2000 with The Secretary of State for the Treasury, Gordon Brown, DTI, BoE, FSA etc., all of whom claim they have no responsibility to rectify what had happened to those of us victims of the banks. ^[43]

I allege the ‘privatisation’ of the Bank of England in 1979/80 via a company called ‘The Bank of England Nominees Limited’ begs the question, ‘is the tail wagging the dog?’