Wonga Wonga Wonga - No Longer?

[Bunk]

I don't blame him. Apparently now when you pull on a Newcastle shirt you have to give 1600%

[TheFaQQer]

Are Wonga any worse than previous shirt sponsor Northern Rock?

[eek]

Are Wonga any worse than previous shirt sponsor Northern Rock?

Yes. At least you could argue that Northern Rock was a savings establishment and provided carefully checked loans.

[vetran]

one was incompetent the other is immoral.

if you have seen the fear in people's eyes when they really don't have enough cash to make it to the end of the month you would see the difference. And don't be silly most of us are well off and have no problem with not having enough money.

[Bunk]

But assuming Northern Rock paid interest, that's not allowed under Islam either. That's why you get Sharia-compliant accounts which pull some fancy trickery and call the interest something else.

[TheFaQQer]

Yes. At least you could argue that Northern Rock was a savings establishment and provided carefully checked loans.

I'm not convinced that 100% self-certified mortgages counts as carefully checked.

[Old Hack]

Yes. At least you could argue that Northern Rock was a savings establishment and provided carefully checked loans.

I reckon one is about 3286% better...

[darmstadt]

Wonga Wanka

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