Thursday, Jul 24, 2008
Can't pay your mortgage?
BBC: Can't pay your mortgage?
Words fail me on this one. "... dependants such as adult children, you could ask them to contribute .."
Posted by doomwatch @ 10:47 AM (1157 views) Add Comment
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1. beartil2010 said...
Link doesn't work?
2. Still-waiting said...
My bank manager has already "turned nasty" by refusing me an extension to my overdraft, and when asked why, blaming the credit crunch. I have got a good credit record by the way.
3. Landedgentry said...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7521906.stm
4. beartil2010 said...
Ah that works now, I tried the link myself earlier - I can't watch these beeb videos at work that's probably why it failed
5. Whostolemyendowment said...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7521906.stm
Guess if you can still afford a laptop, broadband, telephone line.....you still have room in your budget...what a load of typical dumbed down BBC reporting.
In the real world outside the BBC TV centre.....this is what we do, if you have adult dependents still at home who are earning....they chip in, if you have a sensible budget (like me - no trips tothe cinema, economic car use, no lattes or fast food, etc)....then when things get tight they are indeed tight! I do not need Auntie Beeb to tell me the obvious!!!!!!
6. harold said...
Whostolemyendowment, good comment.
Typical patronising BS from the BBC (and to think that we are forced to pay for this nonsense). Next we'll be treated to "the spirit of the Blitz" to get us through this mess. Give me a break!
7. Whostolemyendowment said...
Thanks H.
I notice that all these so called news items are fronted by some young type - with no knowledge of previous slumps - extoling (not sure if that sould be 2 l's) the virtue of saving, or doing without - as we are all overweight knife waving chavs out there in TV land - and need to be told what to do and how to do it....!!! They also look like similar TV presenters fronting property porn shows...strange that.
8. nooneo said...
Whostolemyendowment @ 7.
"They also look like similar TV presenters fronting property porn shows...strange that." I agree. The trouble is (and before you all jump on me I lived in London for 3 years and am an essexman by birth) the London-centric angle that almost everything in the media has. When Kurtsie said the London market was unique, I'm sorry but you kinda have to agree.
Almost all media coverage of anything financial is London based. Almost all the presenters/programme makers live in London. I know this personally as I am in London an awful lot, I have many friends and relatives living in and around the place and quite a lot of contact with media/tv types. They have little or no interest in the other 50 million people living on this island as everything is bigger/better certainly more expensive and possibly more available there. Because of this they appear to work strictly within the social/financial and emotional bounds of the capital. When Kurtsie Allsop says "ooh, it's only 350k" what she is actually thinking is "wow, that piece of cr@p would be 750k round my way (holland park)"
Still, I don't have to fork out a fiver for a pint of St Ella, and no longer spend 3/4 of an hour every evening going in bigger and bigger circles from my home to find a parking space.
9. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...
Thats nothing short of a news article that the average primary school could put together.