Icesave compensation payouts... how to keep the pressure up

Plasticman

mobfant wrote: »

Channel 4 News just said that talks with the Icelandic authorities have broken down.

Is there an echo in here?

f_@_w_y

http://www.citywire.co.uk/Adviser/-/news/regulation-training-and-competence/content.aspx?ID=308923 .... FCSC ppl earn so high...

I dont know what they are paid for!!!

T'Pau

captainkevos wrote: »

A date for our diaries guys - I've just seen John Snow interviewing John McFall (Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee) during which he said that The Chancellor will be answering questions put to him by The Committee on the 3rd November...

Is that this year, do you think? :rolleyes:

If so that's a week on Monday.

T'Pau

It may be worth contacting John McFall directly in the interim.

Treasury Committee meeting and contact details

oql61

jm104 wrote: »

Out of interest is anyone's health being affected by this??

Just catching up after a day in London.

Yes, most definitely. I can't get to sleep until 1 or 1.30 am most nights and I am smoking far more than is good for me. :rolleyes: I feel absolutely crap.

My mental state is just about ok - I don't feel worried so much as extremely angry.

Yesterday, things were looking up and now this stalemate. I agree that now the government should just cough up and deal with Iceland later. We simply cannot be used as pawns in this affair. Our livelihoods depend upon this money.

captainkevos

Hillwalker wrote: »

Sick with worry at times to the point I can't even function effectively.

I can't talk about it because most people (who are not effected) seem to form the view of "it serves you right for saving with a foriegn bank".

If anyone insulted me like that, then I would enlighten them of the fact that anyone who saves with our good old High Street Post Office actually saves with a "foreign bank" (The Bank of Ireland). That should shut them up !

f_@_w_y

oql61 wrote: »

Just catching up after a day in London.

Yes, most definitely. I can't get to sleep until 1 or 1.30 am most nights and I am smoking far more than is good for me. :rolleyes: I feel absolutely crap.

My mental state is just about ok - I don't feel worried so much as extremely angry.

Yesterday, things were looking up and now this stalemate. I agree that now the government should just cough up and deal with Iceland later. We simply cannot be used as pawns in this affair. Our livelihoods depend upon this money.

I say this again n again. We shud plan a visit to FCSC.

We shud do something? What are we all doing, emails, calls, blogging?? thats it.

Imagine what would we have done, if someone would have stolen our money.

Dont you all think, this situation is like that???

I still suggest that we shud talk about uniting at FCSC on 5 or 6 Nov.

cwcw

oql61 wrote: »

I agree that now the government should just cough up and deal with Iceland later. We simply cannot be used as pawns in this affair. Our livelihoods depend upon this money.

Also agree. The government have seized Icelandic assets, so they have the pawns for the game in place. They also have the funds to compensate us now. Compensation to savers first, worry about the recovery later.

innovate

arty4 wrote: »

I believe that the FSCS should be posting daily updates on their website, and not just occasional updates, to help allay our anxieties out here.

I'd ideally love to know more as well but unless the FSCS can tell us something tangible, there's no point about them publishing daily updates.

I think it's fair to assume that the Government is looking for Iceland to deliver according to their promise (i.e. the icelandic guarantee). Publishing details about those negotiations on a daily basis would be rather counter-productive.

I very much appreciate that this debacle caused various levels of anxiety with the people affected - I am one of them and I believe I do understand that it worries some people literally sick. Try to stay calm, it will eventually get sorted. Worrying every waking minute about it won't get us out money back any faster.

I am also still of the opinion that any protests in London are absolutely premature, see earlier posts.

f_@_w_y

cwcw wrote: »

Also agree. The government have seized Icelandic assets, so they have the pawns for the game in place. They also have the funds to compensate us now. Compensation to savers first, worry about the recovery later.

I still dont know what our british government is expecting from the poor neighbour.

The country is not in position of giving us anything else than ice or may be some cod