RBS critic pays £20,000 for billboard criticising bank – The Guardian

A critic of Royal Bank of Scotlands disgraced restructuring unit has spent 20,000 on a billboard berating the high street bank as part of efforts to reinstate an investigation into wrongdoing at the lender.

Neil Mitchell, a Scottish businessman, has paid four months up front on a 5,000 a month billboard on the A23 in Croydon, south London, in an effort to bolster support for his legal challenge.

The billboard, designed as a newspaper front page, shows the RBS logo dripping with what looks like blood and alleges the bank caused austerity, suicides, banks crimes, economic destruction. The word suicide is punctuated with an asterisk sourcing an internal memo in which staff were told to let businesses hang themselves.