The Member for Mawson Leon Bignell has told Bank SA management to "rot in hell" and called them "despicable human beings" following the decision to close their Yankalilla and McLaren Vale branches.

In a social media post published on Thursday Mr Bignall called Bank SA “greedy profit-driven bankers”.

“The disgraceful behaviour of our banking sector continues to rip the heart out of regional South Australia,” he said.

“After the Commonwealth Bank skulked out of town under the cover of Covid over a year ago, Bank SA is closing its McLaren Vale branch resulting in more local job losses and fewer services for our community.

“A few years ago they closed their branch at Willunga saying the people there could use the ATM they’d leave behind and the nearby McLaren Vale branch. First they ripped out the ATM, now they’re closing the Vale.

“The people of Yankalilla now face a drive of 30km to Victor Harbor or 50km to Noarlunga Centre.

“Many of these people don’t drive leaving them completely cut off.

“This is why people hate banks. They make billions of dollars in profits each year and then treat their customers with contempt.

“There is no way governments should be giving banks any money to move into regional areas. The banks should be using their super profits to do it themselves.

“I’d love these banking executives to come down here and face up to the elderly, the sick and the people who have no way of leaving the town to do their banking.

“They are despicable human beings who always put profits before people.

“I hope they go home to their families and look them in the eye and say: “I stopped a man without transport, without a computer and with an incurable disease from being able to access money today.”

“I hope they tell their family and friends how they are turning people’s lives upside down because they are selfish, greedy, uncaring people.

“I hope they all rot in hell, every single banker who ever wiped a bank branch out of a rural town and community.

“For me, this is personal.

“I’ve driven locals to the bank to set up accounts so they can access social security for the first time in their lives because they’re incapacitated, unable to work and stressed out because they have a terminal illness.

“These are real people, served in the bank by real local people, compassionate and caring people who put the customer at ease, set up their banking systems and, in so many cases, - through kindness, patience and understanding- repay them for a lifetime of loyalty to the bank.

“And what do the bank bosses in Adelaide and Sydney do? They erase that branch from the town, the local staff have to find a new job, the local customers are left to fend for themselves.”

The McLaren Vale branch will close on October 21 followed by the Yankalilla branch on December 9.