Update 18/11/15: A meeting due to be held in Huddersfield for West Yorkshire victims of the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) crash has been cancelled.

The meeting was due to take place on Friday afternoon at Huddersfield Methodist Mission – the day after the publication of a long-awaited report by the Bank of England’s regulators into the collapse of HBOS Group which triggered a £20.5billion taxpayer bailout. It would have featured the whistleblower Paul Moore who worked for HBOS before the crash but a media frenzy around the report means he has had to pull out of the meeting.

West Yorkshire victims of the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) crash are being urged to attend a meeting looking to hold those responsible for the devastating collapse to account and prevent it happening again.

The gathering in Huddersfield will take place the day after the publication of a long-awaited report by the Bank of England’s regulators into the collapse of HBOS Group, which triggered a £20.5billion taxpayer bailout.

Hundreds of people across West Yorkshire lost their jobs as a result of the bank’s failure in 2008. Shareholders were also hit and many more people were affected by the PPI mis-selling scandal. The collapse was a major blow to the local economy too.

Now Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman and HBOS whistleblower Paul Moore are calling on all those affected to come together next week to share their experiences and add their voices to a grass-roots campaign to “restore trust, ethics and integrity in society”.

They also want to see those responsible for HBOS’s demise to be held responsible for their wrongdoings and action to prevent any repeat of the financial meltdown that brought the economy to its knees.

They will also give their verdicts on the report into the failure and discuss the next steps to be taken in the wake of its findings.

Representatives and members of Lloyds HBOS, Bradford & Bingley and other shareholder groups are also expected to attend the meeting on Friday, November 20, which will take place at the Huddersfield Methodist Mission in Lord Street.

HBOS whistleblower Paul Moore was fired from his job as Head of Group Regulatory Risk after warning his bosses about their toxic sales tactics.

His new book on what happened inside HBOS, called Crash Bank Wallop, (www.crashbankwallop.co.uk) has just been published and the free event is also its Northern launch.

Mr Moore, 57, will give a talk about his experiences at HBOS and introduce the audience to The New Wilberforce Movement, which he is spearheading as a group campaigning for real change.

Mr Sheerman, who is hosting the event which runs from 6pm-8pm, said: “We know that at least 40,000 jobs have gone since the collapse of HBOS and many of those have been in Yorkshire.

“This fails to take into account the knock-on impact to local economies and the tremendous suffering brought to families as a result.

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman

“Added to that are the huge numbers of individual HBOS shareholders who have lost out, some losing their life savings, and also the tens of thousands of people who were victims of mis-selling, most notably PPI.”

Mr Moore, who lives in North Yorkshire, said: “This whole tragic saga is about the regional and global misery and suffering that has followed the worst financial crisis in our history and how we are going to campaign to ensure that it never happens again.

“It would be great to meet as many people as possible at the event in Huddersfield who have been affected by the disaster that took place at HBOS.

“People at all levels of society in Britain are fed up and even angry that nothing’s really changed in banking seven years after the worst financial crisis in our history.

“We are still suffering the consequences of it and want something done about it. The majority of bankers are good and honest people and desperately want things to change so they can rebuild the reputation of their industry and be proud of their profession, but we have gone badly astray.

“The whole banking system is broken and needs total reform. We have to get to the bottom of what caused the crisis and what needs to be done to prevent it happening again, which it will. The fact is banking should be boring. It shouldn’t be about risk.”

The Bank of England’s two regulators, the PRA and the FCA, have announced their review into the collapse will be released at noon on November 19.

To register your interest in attending next Friday’s event go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/crash-bank-wallop-book-and-new-wilberforce-movement-launch-by-paul-moore-tickets-19379703214