Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "LBC callers bereft by rising mortgage rates" video.

@grtcara8386 Stop blaming boomers. That is just scapegoating. Boomers are often now supporting the younger generation in order to help them out and not all boomers vote Tory.
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@Craig121000 Why is it fair for everyone to suffer? Fairness would be no one suffering. We are not a poor country.
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@D C How do you know that 4 people use double the services that 2 people do? They may not. Unemployed people get a discount because they are in unfortunate circumstances - poorer than those who have a job. Civilised countries look after their poor better, or should do.
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@D C Look at it another way and household poll tax could be 4 times as much as paid previously, even though not everyone was earning.
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In terms of the affordability test, I doubt that before September 2022, any lender realised that rates would rise so high so fast, and such increases would not have been included in the calculations. If they were, far fewer people would have been granted a mortgage and all those coming to the end of a fixed mortgage were caught out too.
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@Royboy50 Putting up interest rates increases inflation when measured in RPI, so it's fuel for inflation.
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@chatham43 In third world countries most people have little power and can't stop corporations ripping them off in collusion with their government and can't stop their streams and rivers being polluted and their environments being degraded, and often can't afford to feed themselves and their families, er, er, er.
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The diabetic guy that can't afford food should go to a food bank. He needs to for the sake of his health.
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