More Farepak related fun

[tim123]

While I feel very sorry for these people, I'm appalled by the fact that someone who obviously has a low income is borrowing 1200 quid to fund Christmas!!

Tis the way of the world now. The definition of poverty now seems to be "can't afford a 40 inch TV".

The sad thing is that there are some people who really are poor, who can't afford to put food on the table for their kids. But people like me have little sympathy for "poverty campaigns" because we see far too many people on benefits buying things that we choose not to buy because they are too expensive. No-one needs to spend 1500 quid on a TV FFS, but all the chavs do.

tim

[Pondlife]

No-one needs to spend 1500 quid on a TV FFS, but all the chavs do.

tim

Couldn't agree more. Mobile phones and Sky-HD are not a right.

[AtW]

Maybe they have 10 kids in the family.

Then again £150 per head presents on Xmas sounds fairly wealthy.

[Zippy]

No-one needs to spend 1500 quid on a TV FFS, but all the chavs do.

tim

And they borrow the dosh from Provident(or similar) and are still paying for it when it blows up. Debt cycle perpetuates etc.

Depressing .............

[boredsenseless]

Tis the way of the world now. The definition of poverty now seems to be "can't afford a 40 inch TV".

The sad thing is that there are some people who really are poor, who can't afford to put food on the table for their kids. But people like me have little sympathy for "poverty campaigns" because we see far too many people on benefits buying things that we choose not to buy because they are too expensive. No-one needs to spend 1500 quid on a TV FFS, but all the chavs do.

tim

hey I'm not a chav!

[Zippy]

hey I'm not a chav!

Not if you've actually got 1500 quid to spend on a TV

[OwlHoot]

directors who knew about problems should certainly be criminally liable for continuing to "trade": I think some of them paid themselves big dividends very close to collapse.

and with customers paying in advance by installments over months, in what amounted to a savings scheme, that money should have gone into a client account so it would be protected.

[bobhope]

and with customers paying in advance by installments over months, in what amounted to a savings scheme, that money should have gone into a client account so it would be protected.

You mean like a bank?