A man was a little short of money one week so he borrowed 20ukp of a friend and paid it back one week later to repay his friends kindship he bought him a pint of beer the interest he actually paid if you work it out was as much than some of the lending companies.

Just an observation.

I am also entertained by the filter on the HJ website. You can't sn*****, you have to laugh. Mutley would be amused.

Nuts, it's the in-built assumption that old people are suckers. They're not. They are cynical and up to all the tricks that such companies try.

What Wonga ads, i don't see them, and their dumb ads that appear on telly only reinforce my opinion of the company and anyone associated with them which is unprintable.

You can't legislate to protect people from themselves, if they're stupid enough to consider paying interest of 2000% or more to a bunch of fast buck wideboys, then let them.

There will always be victims, there will always be people who take advantage of them, its the way of the world.

You can't legislate to protect people from themselves, if they're stupid enough to consider paying interest of 2000% or more to a bunch of fast buck wideboys, then let them.

So why bother legislating against cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, rogue traders etc etc?

And look at the effect all this legislation has had, almost nil, now we have calls to legalise drugs because those in power have failed in their duty to deal effectively with the problem.

Some people are inherantly stupid, short of becoming a version of the USSR (and our modern EU version is heading that way) where there are no freedoms other than those granted by favour of the apparatchiks, then the stupid/gullible/half witted will always smoke drink or drug themselves into their own personal hell, you cannot legislate against stupidity.

As for rogue traders, if it quacks and waddles there's every chance its a duck...i've seen the wide boys as featured on such programs and i wouldn't give them a second of my time, if people think a fast talking geezer in a tranny van who calls them sorr is an honourable businessman and want to put several thousand cash pounds in his sweaty mitt so be it....what else do you do put half the population in protective custody?

The irony of all this is that the biggest con of our time is a large percentage of our own dishonourable politicians, they make the legislation (or rather rubber stamp that of the EUSSR) so are hardly likely to outlaw themselves.

Edited by gordonbennet on 09/07/2013 at 08:26

I don't see any Wonga adverts on the HJ website, probably because I'm using Firefox with Adblocker Plus. Some websites are virtually unuseable, now, without it.

I don't like Wonga as a company because I don't approve of their incredibly high rates of interest. However, rightly or wrongly, they are fullfilling the need of some people to borrow money in this way. Sad, but true.

Edited by Galaxy on 09/07/2013 at 00:52