Is this racist?
http://www.ipswich-bs.co.uk/index2.htm
Quote:
NOTE: Accounts are not available to new investors outside of Ipswich Building Society Branch region.
Investment applications can only be accepted from the following postcode areas:
CB (All Areas)
CM (All Areas)
CO (All Areas)
IP (All Areas)
NR (All Areas)
PE (All Areas)
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You can't avail yourself of certain financial services at IBS unless you live in East Anglia. How is this different from being unable to avail yourself of certain financial services unless you or your ancestors lived in India? The only difference I can think of is that you can always move to the area if you want an account there, but you can't change your ancestry.
Would Spike Milligan's descendents be able to use the LloydsTSB scheme, do we know? He was born in India, after all. He didn't go to Ireland till he was 29, by the way, yet is still known as an Irishman. People have a nasty habit of not staying in the pigeonholes you put them in - sometimes it's best not to put them in pigeonholes.