Day of Action

Local Branches of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Ayrshire were included in a recent U.K. wide Day of Action which called for the bank to stop providing loans to the nuclear weapons industry.

Our local group supported the Day of Action and we helped deliver letters to several Ayrshire RBS branches asking the Branch to consider its support to companies involved in building nuclear weapons.

The latest available figures show that the Royal Bank lends the colossal figure of around £ 2.3 billion pounds to the nuclear weapons industry.

Given that any use of modern day nuclear weapons would cause massive environmental and health consequences it really is time for Scotland’s biggest bank to consider its support for these weapons of mass destruction.

The Bank already steers clear of giving financial support to cluster bombs and land mines - it is now time to add nuclear weapons to this list . Arthur West secretary of the Ayrshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament