Barclays is a **** bank. We should never have borrowed money from them in the first place. When I was a student at Southampton uni we boycotted Barclays for sanction busting investing in apartheid South Africa.
More recently their UK tax avoidance has been described by an FT commentator as 'absolutely breathtaking, extraordinary. The depth of deceit, connivance and deliberate, artificial avoidance stunned me. The intricacy and artificiality of the scheme deeply was absolutely evident, as was the fact that they knew exactly what they were doing and why: to get money from one point in London to another without paying tax, via about 10 offshore companies. Simple, deliberate outcome, clearly stated, with the exact names of who was doing this, and no other purpose.'
Chickens home to roost.