Brits in panic?

[David Guyatt]

So now I hear that Natwest withdrew their threat to cancel all of RT's accounts.
The british Times, formerly a respected newspaper, has this to say about it:

A state-owned British bank caved in to the Kremlin last night after threatening to close the account of a television station accused of being a vehicle for President Putin's propaganda.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) withdrew its punitive action after Moscow claimed it would freeze the BBC's finances in Russia and report Britain to international watchdogs for breaching commitments to freedom of speech.
The climbdown came after an unusually strong reaction from Moscow in defence of RT, the television station formerly known as Russia Today, which is accused of peddling disinformation.
It was a notable victory for Russia

The rest is behind a paywall, and I urge everyone not to pay for that garbage.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/n...-09wkf5r2d

Excellent news.

This sly trick of NatWest demonstrate what clownish, disingenuous and cowardly pricks the management really are (which in fact I knew due to some inside information about board level incompetence).

It seems that zero forethought went into the probable consequences of this propaganda acts and it is right that NatWest has now to face the consequences of an embarrassing retreat after almost causing a major diplomatic row for what would've been a marginal act. I can imagine the FCO dumped on them from a great height for their meddling.