The big debt debate

thecassman86

Trishiapp wrote: »

I complete agree with you cassman!


Drama always draws people in, since it serves as a distraction from one's life problems. This I have noticed by receiving the most comments on my more challenging and controversial posts on here.


Apart from her loud voice, she does not bring anything meaningful to the table. In fact she reminds me of a church bell: very loud, but hollow inside!

Haha, yes, definitely.

I always wonder if she doesn't do it with a bit of irony... I mean, the faces and stares she does when someone else is talking are almost funny.

I always remember the "Sachsgate" row with Ross and Brand... It was on the radio late at night and received around 200 complaints... A day or 2 later when it was all over the news and in the papers, it had all of a sudden received 10,000 complaints... Clearly from people who hadn't actually been listening at the time! :rotfl:

runforlife

Katie Hopkins? Never heard of her. Must live a sheltered life or not watch a great deal of tv.

Just googled her: LOL ! This is why I haven't heard of her. "Katie Olivia Hopkins is a tabloid newspaper columnist, former British reality television contestant."

fermi

From reports from people who attended, she is a completely different person when the cameras are not on her.

wannabe_credit_free

runforlife wrote: »

Katie Hopkins? Never heard of her. Must live a sheltered life or not watch a great deal of tv.

Just googled her: LOL ! This is why I haven't heard of her. "Katie Olivia Hopkins is a tabloid newspaper columnist, former British reality television contestant."

Me neither, I must go and check out Katie Hopkins to see what all the ballyhoo is about...:rotfl:

thecassman86

fermi wrote: »

From reports from people who attended, she is a completely different person when the cameras are not on her.

I can honestly believe that.

I do think the "my way is the right way" attitude is for show. Credit where credit's due - she gets people talking about big issues.

National_Debtline

Here's the data about our callers and their debt levels, this was taken from January's data:

How much debt were our callers in?

• 39% of callers owed between £1 and £5,000
• 32% owed between £5,000 and £15,000
• 12% owed between £15,000 and £25,000
• 9% owed between £25,000 and £50,000
• 4% owed between £50,000 and £100,000
• 1% owed over £100,000

The figures do not include mortgage or secured loans unless our callers had arrears - and we would only include the arrears figures in the calculation.

Hope you find it useful.

David @ NDL.

redpete

Trishiapp wrote: »

Having read many stories on here, I honestly do not think you are that unusual. What is unusual and admirable is that you are dealing with it. Well done

The stories on here are from people stuggling with debt - so a rather skewed sample. Even the National Debtline figures (again from people struggling with debt) show that £30k is unusual.

National_Debtline

redpete wrote: »

The stories on here are from people stuggling with debt - so a rather skewed sample. Even the National Debtline figures (again from people struggling with debt) show that £30k is unusual.

Five years ago, the figure for those with debts between £25,000 and £50,000 was around 20% - so it has actually reduced quite significantly.

Prothet_of_Doom

Averages are pointless, without the standard deviation, without knowing if it's a normal distribution, if it's a mean or median average, without knowing what the monthly income of the person in debt is.

etc.

thecassman86

It's all relative too.

£1000 of debt for someone earning £30kpa is not a lot... But for someone earning £6kpa it's a chunky debt.

I agree, the National Debtline figures are really interesting for those of us in debt, but as a national average, it's massively skewed as it's only for people who ran a debtline!