Repossessed - 06 Jan 2009, 22:35 on BBC One

missk_ensington

wageslave wrote: »

I couldn't understand why their wives were being so farking nice to the useless lumps they were married too. Only the builder seemed willing to actually get off his ar*e and work.
If you were hiding in my spare room pretending to be a financial adviser while my kids`home was being repossessed I'd be in there with an axe.
This, of course, may well be why I am single.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is exactly what I was thinking....

...and I am also single :rotfl:

milliemonster

I have just watched this on iPlayer and to be honest I really felt for the people on here. Whilst I agree that none of the couples were exactly blameless, I think that a lot of people on here are making a lot of assumptions about these people which the programme failed to provide answers for and I therefore feels its unfair to criticise certain aspects of how they have run their lives.

I think Brits on the whole love to kick a man when he's down and to a certain extent this is why the country is in the mess it is in today, all the support and community spirit has gone which is a real shame.

These families have lost their homes, either through their own fault, or not, they have still ended up losing their homes and the devastation that this has caused to their lives is unimaginable to me. I think losing their home is enough for them to bear without all this 'I told you so, you deserve it, it's your own fault'

At the end of the day, people are only human, we all make mistakes, no-one is perfect and I just think a bit of empathy for anyone who finds themselves in this situation, irrespective of how they got there, wouldn't be too hard to find surely?

They have paid the highest price possible, when all they wanted was to aim high and provide a home for their families, granted whilst this may have been beyond their means, they tried and failed and are paying for it now. I agree that no-one should expect the state to pay for a home for you to live and we all know that when you take on a mortgage, this is what will happen if you don't pay, but I don't think any of these people in this programme had deliberately taken on their mortgages with the intention of trying to get out of paying for their homes.

WTF?_2

milliemonster wrote: »

These families have lost their homes, either through their own fault, or not ......

No ambiguity about it - it was definitely their own fault.

Rach2007_2

I know it's already been said but I could not get over why the two other wives didn't work.

When the baldy bloke and his missus were clearing out the house with only minutes to go before the locksmiths turned up she was standing in one of the kids bedrooms crying her eyes out. My heart did sink then, it was extremely uncomfortable viewing. But then I remembered that she didn't work - her kids were at school - she could have easily got something part-time to bring in a few hundred a month. Barmy.

And the builders wife who was asking her kids which toys they wanted to sell at the car boot sale so they could pay that month's mortgage. She'll argue of course that keeping the roof over her kids heads is more important than toys, but there could have been so much more she could have done for her family than leave it to that late stage and get the kids tangled up in their mess.

pinkzebra

I couldn't understand how the man with the 150K mortgage (the one who bought his house for £40K), was wondering how to find the £1200 in a week - when he had a motorcross bike sitting right outside his front door. It didn't even seem to cross his mind that he could sell it and get a bit of money.

repoamuse

the only people in this film I actually felt sorry for were the children. Heartbreaking actually.

I too noticed sky tv, gadgets, a silver range rover, a winnebago type RV, new ish vecta, motocross bikes, cigarettes etc.

No simpathy whatsoever with the adults at all. Mr. 'Mortgage Advisor' especially.

That programme was filmed in September 08, and shows literally the tip of the iceberg.

[Deleted User]

If i were the BBC producer aiming to show people as innocent victims of the Recession, these couples wouldve been the last people i wouldve chosen.

I think what people forget is the countless opportunities these people were given to resolve their financial difficulty yet failed to do so, Repossession is the last resort for lenders.