BBC1 News Report on Pensioner Bonds

The more people who protest the better mcem

Thanks for the link anya. Have followed your example and emailed Newswatch.

I was not aware that I was rolling around in luxury now. I well remember the 15% interest on our endowment policy and when my ex walked out in 1988, I had to sell the house because I could not afford to live and pay the mortgage. I barely had the money to take the tube to work and I had a leaking roof.

As others have stated we are receiving rubbish interest rates and this has been going on for years.

As you will see on the other thread about these Bonds, I have given a warning to anyone who buys them to check their bank statement pdq as instead of thanking £10,000 from us they have taken £20,000 !

I agree about your annoyance as how we 65+ are portrayed. We saved our money by only eating out occasionally, having modest holidays and generally cutting back.

When we married in 1967 our mortgage was 15% too, it took my entire monthly wage. I would like to see some of these whippersnappers live the life we did. I had to be at work at 7.30 am but had to get up to a cold house, I coal fire and no double glazing. I had to shop every day because I could not afford a fridge and I had no washing machine and washed everything by hand. We earned every last penny of that money it was not handed to us on a plate.

I've submitted an emailed complaint accusing the BBC of biased and untrue reporting and ageism.

Yes! Let's inundate the BBC with complaints

Here is link to their complaints procedures.

Blimey, I must have got a good deal in 1990 with my 14% mortgage!

Oh, hang on - it was an endowment mortgage which was supposed to give me a lump sum at the end of the term but it somehow turned out to be the other way round...

That's ok nelliemoser - some people may have got a better deal than you and me! Like 14.75%!

Another one whose 'future we stole' I suppose (probably earns more pro rata than DH and I ever earned together!).

I saw him too, practically frothing at the mouth implying that the 'savage cuts' hadn't affected anyone over the age of 64...

Oops! I didn't see RoseQ had just quoted that figure.

We were paying about 15% on mortgages in the early 1990s.

Yes, I saw the little *** from the Taxpayers' Alliance being interviewed on BBC -presumably the same mouthpiece who was mentioned on the thread about bonds.

We were paying 15% interest on our mortgage when he was just a babe in arms.

Yep! Their money man said the same thing on the Today programme. (about the Bonds).