Virgin One Account - Annoyed!

Just got back from holiday to find a letter from RBS to say the interest rate on our One Account is being cut by .25% as per the BOE rate change

4th August....BUT this rate change will not come into effect until 31st August. In the 7 years we have had our account rate changes have always been immediate - or were when Richard Branson still had a finger in the pie - it appears to me that RBS have now decided that the One Account features that have made it such a useful type of account are to be bought into line with how other banks/building societies run their accounts....is this the thin end of the wedge I wonder? what will be next? It will be interesting to see if, when there is a BOE rate hike, they hold a rate change back to the end of the month....maybe time to look around for a change of account - are there any other current account mortgages that anyone can reccommend? am not interested in an offset type - I like the current account set up and would prefer to stay with the same formula.

Lily

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LjLj
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Thanks - I hadn't noticed - I'll email them. Others have done the same by the looks of the Virgin forum on The Motley Fool -

Barclays Open Plan & First Direct Smart Mortgage seem to be the best - search previous discussions

Daytona

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Daytona

"Daytona" wrote

... but note that they don't call it the smartMortgage anymore, it's now their "offset mortgage".

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Tim

and Barclays isn't a current account either , its an offset :-)

which leaves nothing for the OP :-)

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Tumbleweed

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