BBC - Britain's Streets of Debt

taylornj · 2 June 2006 at 1:11PM

Monday 5 June - Friday 9 June on BBC 1, at 9:15am-10am this might be of interest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/5005374.stm

Monday - THE WHISTLE BLOWER
Tuesday - BORROWERS BEWARE
Wednesday - EASY PREY
Thursday - LOSING IT ONLINE
Friday - GOING FOR BROKE

GreyPilgrim · 2 June 2006 at 1:31PM

Nice one, I'll set a reminder for that.

Have the day off work today and have been watching daytime TV for the first time in ages. I'd forgotten how many "GO ON, BORROW SOME MONEY FROM US" adverts there are.

Only seen Carol Vorderman once, mind you.

Gorgeous_George · 2 June 2006 at 1:44PM

In the end, people need to be responsible for the debt they own.

Personal Finance should be taught in schools. Perhaps an NVQ in PF should be required before anybody can borrow money to buy a car and an O level to buy a house.

GG

isgman · 2 June 2006 at 1:45PM

Thanks for the Info, I am "away" from Home on a Course all next week so it will give me something to watch, thats worth watching, on the TV in the hotel.

vyvyan_2 · 2 June 2006 at 1:45PM

Thanks from me too.

GreyPilgrim · 2 June 2006 at 2:03PM

isgman wrote:

Thanks for the Info, I am "away" from Home on a Course all next week so it will give me something to watch, thats worth watching, on the TV in the hotel.

Just had a spell of nights away with work in naff travelodges. Do yours have TV's that only get channels 1,2,3 and 4...a really snowy channel 5 and 25 seconds of 'adult' channels before you have to pay more

Broken_hearted · 2 June 2006 at 2:07PM

Might be interesting to watch the first one. We can all be smug now cos we are beating the banks and their stupid charges.

TerryB_3 · 2 June 2006 at 2:30PM

Broken_hearted wrote:

Might be interesting to watch the first one.

Now if I could just figure out how to use the video recorder:rotfl:

keith_lard · 2 June 2006 at 2:44PM

"Gwen Colbourne, at 72, had 3 store cards, 6 credit cards and 2 loans, yet had no assets and lived on a small pension. " taken from bbc article.

How can someone get Credit with just a small pension????

I really do think the way the system is in this Country, they can throw what ever amount at you, the System is always in their favour.

Sad.

Very Sad.