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The independent union for Co-op Bank customers. Crowd power to keep our bank ethical. #saveourbank Tweets by @RyanABrightwell @shaunfensom @EC_magazine

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We are off to the other place: find us at https://t.co/2Ik3UhXMem

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In our latest newsletter for members and supporters of the Customer Union:

➡️Coventry and Co-op agree terms for £780m acquisition
➡️A note from the bank to you on our Sustainability Report view
➡️Major job losses at the Co-op Bank

📰Read all about it : https://t.co/60y1U8rVum

[Save Our Bank - cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social @SaveOurBank]

Great news. As a union of C-op Bank customers, we consider this merger would align perfectly with our dual goals of preserving the Co-op Bank's world-leading ethical standards and steering it back towards some form of mutual or co-operative ownership.

[Financial Times @FT]

Coventry Building Society agrees £780mn merger with Co-op Bank https://t.co/SCMWsoBksM

[Co-operative News @coopnews]

. @SaveOurBank campaign welcomes reports that Coventry Building Society is considering a bid for the Co-op Bank #coops

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https://t.co/Vin4fmIcUJ

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More welcome news as the Co-op Bank enters exclusive merger talks with Coventry Building Society.

As we say in the @FT, a successful deal would align perfectly with our dual goals: preserving ethics & steering the bank towards #cooperative ownership.

https://t.co/Vm09eljBoa

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Coventry Building Society has made an offer to buy The Co-operative Bank.
We are strongly supportive of any move that would bring the bank back under mutual ownership, which would be in line with our aims.
https://t.co/3hbT1IQzFx

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Here is a statement from us, the independent Customer Union for @CooperativeBank customers, in response to recent news stories on the Co-op Bank, Rose West and a feminist organisation that the bank refused services to back in 2017.

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Here is a statement from us, the independent Customer Union for @CooperativeBank customers, in response to recent news stories on the Co-op Bank, Rose West and a feminist organisation that the bank refused services to back in 2017.

[Alison Parker @alisonhparker]

I choose to bank with the @CooperativeBank precisely because it chooses it's customers and avoids arms dealers. The new rules are alarming. Should I resort to money under the mattress if I have morals? https://t.co/uZYyGt6Ebb #NigelFarage @SaveOurBank

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Want to support our work to build a cooperative stake in the @CooperativeBank?
You can join us as a member for just £15 a year or as a supporter for free.
Sign up to get our newsletter in your inbox each month. #SaveOurBank
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Pleased to see this! The Co-op Bank standing up for renters and rightly positioning as a #humanrights issue. This will resonate with a lot of bank customers.

[The Co-operative Bank UK @CooperativeBank]

✊ Having a safe and secure home is a human right.

That's why we've teamed up with @Shelter to campaign for a robust Renters Reform Bill.

What is the Renters Reform Bill? 👇

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@RichardJMurphy We've written about this at the Customer Union for Ethical Banking, a cooperative union of ethically-motivated Co-op Bank customers. The principle of ethical banking is under attack and needs defending. https://t.co/7bDBdfKVZS

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Save Our Bank in @thetimes today defending the principle of ethical banking amid the fall-out of the Coutts/Farage affair - as well as the alarming & overlooked govt investigation into banks refusing finance to arms companies.
https://t.co/xQLU0bVPnR

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

As @saveourbank has presciently warned, this is a serious attack on the business model of banks like the Co-Op Bank.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

I have for years chosen my banks on ethical grounds, including the Co-op bank for quite specifically denying banking to activities I do not like. Is it now being said that they must stop doing this? What sort of ethic requires unethical behaviour?

[Save Our Bank - cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social @SaveOurBank]

A much more important story than the Farage/Coutts affair, and a graver threat to the principle of #ethicalbanking. https://t.co/H6h9z2UgpS

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Our take on sections of the press and their manufactured outrage about banks turning away Farage and the arms industry.
As the powerful are presented as victims of "discrimination", the principle of ethical banking needs defending.
https://t.co/hpFwJzuKrQ

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This, still.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

The most shocking thing about Nigel Farage's Coutts bank account is that WE ARE IN A CLIMATE CRISIS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING TO HAND OUT UP TO 130 NEW OIL AND GAS LICENCES.

[Steve Mason @stevemason2111]

@GreenPartyMolly Molly, no one is joining the dots... If major companies are put in a position where they cannot pick and choose based on their values, how long do you think sustainability will last when the challenges come in from fossil fuel companies etc to banks that actively oppose them

[Save Our Bank - cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social @SaveOurBank]

@Frances_Coppola Thanks for tweeting about this, @Frances. We would retweet but oddly we can't. Probably another unpredictable rule change from Twitter/X.

For your followers: we posted our view on this here: https://t.co/7bDBdfLtPq