Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away!: Ch5 9pm

[Legacywr]

Brand new series looking at cash-strapped Britain from the perspectives of debtors, creditors and debt collectors. In this episode, an army veteran is evicted from his home of 19 years.

[Laurel Green]

Have it on record as am going to watch the new series of Silks.

[omgus]

i did have some sympathy for someone caught out on a logbook loan.

It went once the owner arrived and turned out to be a moron.

[chibbard]

2 bloody intervals in less than 20 minutes bloody annoys me....

[ewolg]

Felt sorry for chap being evicted. Two hours isn't a lot of time to get everything out.

[GG89]

It's not 2 hours though, is it? They all know it's coming and have had ample time to try and sort something out.

I do have sympathy to a certain extent as it must be really horrible but they've had multiple warnings.

[TheD]

chibbard said:

2 bloody intervals in less than 20 minutes bloody annoys me....

This pissed me off more than the show.

Did feel sorry for the Army vet. Northern Ireland, Falklands and the Gulf and he is on the scrap heap. Something not right. I do agree he will have had time and warnings.

[ewolg]

TheD said:

This pissed me off more than the show.

Did feel sorry for the Army vet. Northern Ireland, Falklands and the Gulf and he is on the scrap heap. Something not right. I do agree he will have had time and warnings.

Yes i was referring to him in fact, sad state of affairs.

[Sarkmeister]

TheD said:

This pissed me off more than the show.

Did feel sorry for the Army vet. Northern Ireland, Falklands and the Gulf and he is on the scrap heap. Something not right. I do agree he will have had time and warnings.

I do feel sorry for him, but despite being £30k in debt he still had a fairly recent looking apple laptop and a huge TV. I assume buying those didnt help....

[iva cosworth]

Scouser a bit aggressive,didn't do him any good,as usual.

Smashing windscreen.........

[chibbard]

Something wasn't ringing true to me with regards to the army guy. Earlier in the program they said he had a 30% shared ownership of the house! however nearer the end they were saying he had a £700.00 a month mortgage to pay....

[GG89]

chibbard said:

Something wasn't ringing true to me with regards to the army guy. Earlier in the program they said he had a 30% shared ownership of the house! however nearer the end they were saying he had a £700.00 a month mortgage to pay....

Yip. Re-mortgaged and spunked it on shiney apple laptops and 60 inch flat screens perhaps?

[Legacywr]

GG89 said:

chibbard said:

Something wasn't ringing true to me with regards to the army guy. Earlier in the program they said he had a 30% shared ownership of the house! however nearer the end they were saying he had a £700.00 a month mortgage to pay....

Yip. Re-mortgaged and spunked it on shiney apple laptops and 60 inch flat screens perhaps?

Wasn't it that the house was a 30/70 shared ownership with a housing association, and he was still having to pay rent for the HA's share. And, I think he said that his 30% was actually paid for.

[kev1974]

More debt porn. A lot of these shows about all of a sudden.

[ralphrj]

kev1974 said:

More debt porn. A lot of these shows about all of a sudden.

Not really new though are they?

I can remember 'Bank of Mum & Dad' a programme about twenty-somethings having to be bailed out by their parents being shown 10 years ago.

[mini1380cc]

Legacywr said:

Wasn't it that the house was a 30/70 shared ownership with a housing association, and he was still having to pay rent for the HA's share. And, I think he said that his 30% was actually paid for.

Yeah this was it. Despite losing his share of the house to clear other debt, he still had to pay rent to the HA for their share. Paying rent on a property that you cant use must suck the big one. He did seem to be an emotional wreck, and losing the dog wouldn't have helped.

If he has genuine health issues that prevent him from pulling a full time wage then this is where the benefits system should be working.

[mark944gold]

mini1380cc said:

Yeah this was it. Despite losing his share of the house to clear other debt, he still had to pay rent to the HA for their share. Paying rent on a property that you cant use must suck the big one. He did seem to be an emotional wreck, and losing the dog wouldn't have helped.

If he has genuine health issues that prevent him from pulling a full time wage then this is where the benefits system should be working.

However it sounds like the debt came from inland revenue, so I guess he had tried to avoid paying his fair share of tax, not hard for someone who gets paid in cash most of the time. Maybe the benefit system should not step in and help him.

[paulw123]

no sympathy for any of the cases on here. they are given so much warning then blame everyone but themselves.

Liverpool man should have been prosecuted for far more including threats to kill etc. In the end he got a fine £15 more than being caught doing 35 in a 30 limit. Utter scum.

[Legacywr]

Heads up folks!

[SPR2]

Not an easy job for these guys but they are very patient with folks.