Not necessarily political, but self serving. When Lloyds and TSB merged, all the credit card processing was outsourced and many of the managers who made that decision ended up getting highly paid jobs at the outsource company. Funny that.
If you click on "Return to TSB Homepage" there is a login in the lop right hand corner. This is intermittently working. If you are lucky enough to get in, you can see your accounts but nothing else is working.