Some of your readers may have seen reports that under pressure from the United States, Lloyds Bank has withdrawn its facilities from customers who have the audacity to have dealings with Cuba.

It seems that Cuba is on the US list of countries it believes sponsors terrorism. That is a bit rich coming from a country which killed one million in Korea, four million in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (where it also used chemical weapons), and up to one million in Iraq.

If the United States wants to continue its cruel, illogical and possibly illegal boycott of Cuba, that is its decision, but why should it bully others to do the same?

Apparently, a small shop in the UK, which sells very popular Cuban sugar, and another in London, which has been selling Cuban cigars for more than 100 years, have had their accounts closed by Lloyds as a result of this typical American bullying.

Have we now got to the point where the United States tells British banks which customers they can deal with?

And there are those who complain of interference from Brussels! This, then, seems to be the alternative.

I have been banking with Lloyds for 57 years and am writing to them to express my disgust at their weak-kneed response to this pressure and to tell them I am seriously considering closing my accounts and moving them to another bank which has more guts.

If any readers also bank with Lloyds and share my disgust, I urge them to do the same.

GORDON CLACK Witney Road Ducklington Witney