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Most debt collection is now being undertaken post sale of debt. The original creditor has ceased to be a ‘client’. People are now transactions, a name and an amount.

Debt purchase is speculation. Peoples’ lives are being traded like junk in a car boot sale. These speculators then take a gamble on enforcing ‘debts’ that they paid a pittance for. Money is their engine. I am a writer with personal and professional interest in the care of the mentally ill. I have seen and experienced first-hand the methods employed by debt collection agencies and am well aware of their tactics. In my opinion (and my own experience) they are driving people to suicide. Such speculation and inhuman contempt for the welfare of others has no place in civilised society.

Current signatories

Alison Anthony, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Robert Anthony
• Cherry Thornton
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Donna Edmunds
• phil hant
• Patricia Smith
• Andrew Banwell
• Paul Williams
• Dan Russell
• simon thorp
• Paul Keegans
• Mandi Salisbury
• Karen Horsfall
• Siddra Majeed
• Alan Graham
• janette gooodwin
• Stewart Scrafton
• duncan payne
• T Barnett
• D Barnett
• ann adley
• Jonathan Laker
• Fiona Pollard
• Karl Fye
• Nomore Hookery
• Roy Burman County Council Campaign
• Nicola Halliwell
• GRAHAM PHILLIPS
• Alan Marshall
• Keith Harrison
• Peter Bennett
• Kevin Hunter
• Patricia Johnston
• Pat Ross
• David W
• Jane Gokgoz
• David Roberts
• Lynda Phillips
• john webb
• totally agree
• david patrick dempsey
• Helen Edwards
• Margaret Blackwood
• Ian Wilson
• K ELLIOTT
• H. Phillips
• Paul Fox
• B. Menzies
• Jan MacDonald
• len shackleton
• andy corrall
• Rowena James
• david pope
• michael leonard
• Dick King
• S King
• Jeff
• James
• Andrew Hart
• James Grice
• Simon Shawcross
• sarah booth
• JKManley
• Clare Barton
• Timothy Lee
• Clifford Evans
• Malcolm Cutler
• Lynda Phillips
• Elizabeth Lane
• Glenn Campbell
• Jean Reno
• John Murray
• Mark Duncan
• Susan Jane Caraccio
• Wenyi Xie
• Anita Taylor
• philippe beauvilain
• Audrey Easton
• D Davies
• J Davies
• M Wilkinson
• Helen Clifton
• Ben Barker
• James Angus Gray
• Elizabeth Freeman
• Rob Thijssen
• Paul Obonyano
• Teresa Bassenger
• helen louise finch
• Ian Oakham
• Irving Walsh
• russell
• Craig Williams
• terence alexander albery
• Tom Moreland
• Mark Collyer
• Gerald Martin
• Gordon Goodfellow
• carol davies
• Lloyd Lewery
• Darren Jackson
• n fisher
• Kornelijus Valius
• Peter Richard Crolla
• Jack Bevan
• Angel Stephens
• colin lawlee
• d scanllon
• Michelle McCartney
• Robert McConnell
• Peter Burton
• chris greene
• Ross Mather
• Philip Harper
• anna williams
• G Connelly
• Richard Bray
• Melanie Welsh
• craig hough
• David
• Elsie Russon