the issues in the UK are not to do with banks hating bitcoin, but banks hating people that don't follow regulation guidelines in regards to FIAT. such as Amir Taaki who is a known hater of government rules that never got FSA regulated with his intersango business.
now he is living as a squatter in some office building somewhere
Funny how the regulators turn blind eyes on the banks yet manage to be very capable at disrupting new services in the UK.