Fighting Repossession: Tonight with Trevor McDonald Monday 8pm

poppy10_2

Just a quick reminder

Fears that 75,000 homes could be repossessed this year have prompted the government to launch new initiatives to help people stay in their homes, but will they be in time or enough?

Fiona Foster meets the families being evicted and how they are fighting back, including one couple who are now squatting in their repossessed property.

PasturesNew

Ta. I hope I remember to watch this in 40 minutes.

One of the worst things windows ever did was bin the basic alarm clock from v3.11/3.12 when it changed to Windows 98.

I do miss that nifty little application that was so easy to use.

Snooze

poppy10 wrote: »

Just a quick reminder

Hmm, who's taking bets on it being another MEWing prog? :rolleyes:

...Probably with the usual aerial shots of that dome shaped thing in the middle of London too...

Rob

PasturesNew

8pm ... so *bump*

dmg24

Can somebody get that man (Mr Moules) off the screen before I slap him very hard please?!!

The council have given him a temporary house, fair enough it is not the Ritz, but it is a damn sight better than a lot of people have got.

He is moaning that he cannot park outside his front door (followed by a shot of a relatively quiet road). Answer: sell your car (and your nice laptop) and pay off your arrears or rent privately.

Wouldn't normally be so harsh, but this guy is just horrid.

flutter_2

Also - must be said:

£10,000 - 1980 - hmmmmmmm me thinks someone has been MEWing!

denvore

dmg24 wrote: »

Can somebody get that man (Mr Moules) off the screen before I slap him very hard please?!!

I think he was the same bloke who appeared in an earlier programme - he was nasty in that one too.

Perhaps if he spent less time on TV and more time in work he may have been able to pay off some of his arrears.

I too am normally sympathetic towards people who have fallen on hard times, but this bloke takes the biscuit.

Snooze

Hmm, crap programme. Same old same old. :rolleyes:

Next.

Rob

[Deleted User]

It seems to me that these shows are here to make these people out as innocent victims when that simply isnt the case.

The first two familys didnt go into much detail about that position, first house..new kitchen and bathroom, hmm?

The couple from the BBC repo show are on again (theyve been in just about every repo related article/show) moaning that they cant all fit into their council house lounge :S, Mr is sitting there surfing the web on a nice laptop he shouldve sold to pay some of his debt.

Even Bob Hoskins is having trouble these days, insisting he would go to prison simply to highlight the thousands facing repossession, i feel no sympathy for him, he bought at £10k and was last valued at £700k..whilst i understand it was bought several hundred years ago, i still rekon MEW was a term they knew well.

Third family have a nice 100 inch Plasma and a PS3..why? No wonder these people are facing repossession, its not about the recession, if they had lived within their means in the first place then they wouldnt be having problems now.

Pssst

In the majority of cases,repossessions are perfectly lawful and correct so whats the problem? you roll the dice and sometimes you lose.

If prudent and thrifty savers can lose,if pension funds and pensioners can loose and if small time stock market investors can lose then those who rolled the dice on housebuying can loose to. why should they be bailed out?

PasturesNew

I nodded off and missed ... only saw the opening titles.
Gonna watch it on the ITV iPlayer equivalent

http://www.itv.com/CatchUp/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=34218