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

zzyorkshirepuddingzz

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I do hope I am being reasonable. We are in unprecedented times, Icesave has moved off the news agenda. We had hoped the info would come last week, it didn't we are now told it should come this week.

I hope and expect it will. Yet as time moves on people have a legitimate expectation to know and understand the procedure. lack of info causes uncertainty and distress.

My aim is first of all to try and show people what the score is - and to try and act as a more organised conduit if people need to protest. Fingers crossed as I have written above, that won't be needed.

Martin

Firstly let me say thank you Martin for attempting to help us and believe me we need all the help we can get. I can't understand why so many people on here are being so negative. Surely Martin is the right person to be able to organise something that will have clout. At the moment there are 3 forums that I am reading and on every one people are saying they want to organise some action. Wouldn't it make sense if everyone got together on one site and took action en masse? Also, as Martin says fingers crossed it won't be needed, but if he can get someone to give us an indication WHEN we are going to get our hard-earned cash, at least it would put our minds at rest. And Martin is just the right person in the know to do it. Put your support behind him and perhaps we may get somewhere.

meanmachine_2

Martin, I'm extremely grateful for any support you can give us.

As an Icesaver I'm feeling very unloved at the moment.

You're absolutely right - the media work on the basis of "stunts", anniversary "hooks" and personal "sob stories".

Should there be no progress this week, we should definitely look at arranging some kind of visual "stunt" to coincide with an Icesave anniversary.

Also, we should have, among the group, some personal stories - of people whose lives have been wrecked/put on hold by the Icesave collapse.

All three combined will most likely get us press coverage.

And no, I don't suppose we'll get any thanks from the passives on here who blithely assume politicians do everything they can when there's no pressure on them to do so.

The rest of us, meanwhile, live in the real world.

zzyorkshirepuddingzz

This sounds promising!

http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/UK-seeks-Iceland-compensation-827189832.html

We can but keep everything crossed !!

james10999

The Government has said it will ensure consumers receive their money back in full.
And the Treasury has also arranged for money to be transferred to Dutch savings bank ING Direct

YEY!! Looks like it's all being transfered to another bank ING!

Brett

Lightwater_2 wrote: »

I certainly agree, if nothing happens by 6/7 nov., we should make our feelings known. So count us two in as part of the 500.

I agree too,I'm sure if it were Mr Brown or Mr Darling who were waiting for access to their own money,we would have heard a lot more by now. Where do these people get off (a) Not allowing Access to OUR OWN MONEY and (b) not keeping us updated on a weekly if not daily basis on the present situation...count us in too.

Paul_Herring

james10999 wrote: »

YEY!! Looks like it's all being transfered to another bank ING!

I didn't read it that way - I read it as a repetition of what we already know - KE and Heritable only.

redcar_2

Paul_Herring wrote: »

I didn't read it that way - I read it as a repetition of what we already know - KE and Heritable only.

Me too unfortunately. :sad:

Its 'money' not 'the money'.

Also in the original those two statements are in separate paragraphs so I don't think are connected.

meanmachine_2

redcar wrote: »

Me too unfortunately. :sad:

Its 'money' not 'the money'.

Also in the original those two statements are in separate paragraphs so I don't think are connected.

Yes, I agree.

It's a dumbed down report, poorly written in that it leads you to think Icesavers' money - which is what the report is about - is to be transferred into ING.

It's actually talking about KE/Heritable

v6g

If you're going to press ahead with this, shouldn't it be timed a little better?

It's only "just" dropped out of the news. The pre-budget report comes out in mid November (I'm not sure of the exact date) - that will fill the press with bad news for a good week. They'll be looking for some more bad news about that time.

Plan it for a week after the pre-budget report - that will be a good time to generate some "bad news" - a Wednesday or Thursday is probably best so that the journalists have time to put together some more in-depth sob-story articles for the weekend broadsheets. That way there will also have been a good gap between the initial furore (Oct 8th). Doing it any sooner risks just becoming "more of the same".

ed123_2

.....They seem to be playing some kind of political game here, saying they are going to Iceland to attempt to get our money back, yet we hear that £4 billion is in frozen accounts (v apt, but where is this frozen money?). They also say that the treasury is promising to fully cover our savings (including the balance re the Iceland scheme if they don't pay out) paying us first and THEN recovering the money from Iceland.
ie They don't want to appear to let Iceland of the hook by paying us first and then reclaiming from Iceland because if they did this Iceland won't pay up???