* Consumer Refund Service* What to do next.

They shouldn't be allowed to send out unsolicited stuff. It makes me so cross!

I received a letter from Consumer Refund Service today, addressed to "The Occupier"

The letter was in an official-looking HMRC/DWP-style brown envelope with a line above the address window which stated: "FCA DEADLINE INFORMATION ENCLOSED."

When I opened the letter it was obvious that it's PPI junk mail. There isn't any mention anywhere of an FCA deadline.

In the recycling it went!

There are some that will think it's an official letter and that's not acceptable.

reeac wrote: »

Just received such a letter this morning. I agree that the brown envelope is designed to look like an official Government one. Just another "ambulance chasing compo scam". Is all this stuff just another consequence of Thatcher's deindustrialisation of the North?

Holy tenuous attempt to crowbar Thatcher into something Batman!


No, Labour introduced the no win no fee suing culture in 1998 and they were warned in 1999 by their own commission that non-lawyer claims companies needed regulating and ignored the advice.

antrobus wrote: »

Agreed. And what's more she didn't deindustrialise the North, or anywhere else for that matter. The big decline in UK manufacturing took place under New Labour.

I don't really know why some people blame the poor woman for stuff that happened after she resigned in 1990. Perhaps they believe that she exercised some kind of mind control over Major and Blair.:)

At the risk of massively going off topic, Thatcher was effectively blamed for the end result of stuff that started long before her time. It is a fact for example that Labour in the governments of Wilson (twice) and Callaghan closed more coal pits and got rid of more mining jobs than Thatcher ever did. When she came in she gave British Coal heaps of money as they were running at a huge loss and even subsidised British industry to use coal power rather than gas. The end of British industry like cars and steel was as much a result of foreign countries being able to produce better, cheaper and with workers not on strike all the time. People forget Thatcher got in because the public were sick of the 3 day week, bodies going unburied etc as a result of unions effectively running the country. Undoubtedly she did plenty of negative things as well, one of her government ministers wanted to effectively shut Liverpool as part of a managed decline for example. Making difficult decisions for the long term is always hard but if you have a choice of chucking billions at the coal mines which were increasingly inefficient and not working while US/Australia open cast mines were cheaper and France/Germany were running their own subsidies for coal then you sometimes have to make that call