Under the regulations, bailiffs for private firms would for the first time be given permission to restrain or pin down householders. They would also be able to force their way into homes to seize property to pay off debts, such as unpaid credit card bills and loans. [More]Now that shouldn't be necessary. If you lot just left your doors unlocked, they wouldn't need to force their way in...
[Via Whose Paranoid]
Talk about a potential major screw job coming down the pike.
ReplyDeleteI thought most "credit cards" were unsecured loans, and as such, no property secures the credit.
When did the loansharks take over the credit card companies over there?
has england officially become terry gillam's nightmare brazil?
ReplyDeletethe collection of mr. buttle:
http://movieimages.tripod.com/brazil/brazil01.jpg
See the "catch 22" in all this? People are constantly hammered with the idea that they must live beyond their means, and business is hammered that they must make loans to "the poor" and "disadvantaged."
ReplyDeleteThen, when those folks can't pay their bills, the dear government steps in to "bailout" the banks!
It's a vicious cycle that won't be broken until people take personal responsibility for themselves and their property.
Of course it is insane to allow these bailiffs to invade private property like this. It is also insane for people to run up credit card bills and live upside down on home mortgages.
The interesting thing in the article was the short bit about the bailiffs collecting "fines."
The economy isn't going to get any better for quite a while, and I don't think anyone is foolish enough to think that any government will forgo one penny of what it considers it is due.
Dave,
ReplyDeleteOff-topic but I like this new linky thing you're doing. Previously it's often been confusing whether I should click on the title or elsewhere. Thanks.
How is any house-holder expected to identify ALL those people who are blessed with honorary "Only One" status?
ReplyDeleteIf a stranger enters my house uninvited, I can eject him, forcefully if necessary. Unless his job title is on a huge (and growing) list of "special" people.
We need some method of identifying people that cannot be forged; where it is universally known and accepted that the bearer is indisputably the person on the ID and is incorruptible - all administered by an incorruptible alien species, maybe called Arisians.
Oops, sorry - I was channelling EE 'Doc' Smith.
Returning to the real world - I personally have NO IDEA what a police ID really looks like - and a similar comprehension of who ELSE is entitled (by law) to enter my property.
I intend to treat them ALL as home invaders until demonstrated otherwise.
Congress here in the US change the BK laws because Bush demanded it. That was when both houses were republican. This was done as a pay off to the banks because people where running up credit cards and bailing out on the balance owed by filing a BK.
ReplyDeleteIt gets better. One week after Bush signed the bill he demanded the republican push through both houses. He looked into the camera and say that people need to follow through with their bills and not stick other people with them. So seven days later he signs off on the IMF loans to Africa by sticking the American people with all of those bad loans in the billions.
The whole world kisses the asses of bankers. The folks in the UK better start taking the clue from some of the folks down south and start demanding some rights that go along with decency.