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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to introduce reforms that will require financial services organisations not to discriminate against those failed debtors (funts or financial untouchables) who are able clearly to show they have used their best efforts to repay as much of their debt as they can reasonably afford. More details
Submitted by Andrew Smith – Deadline to sign up by: 19 June 2009 – Signatures: 85
More details from petition creator
Many people who have had difficulty repaying their debts are treated by the financial services industry as funts – or financial untouchables. We believe that those who do their best to repay their creditors should be offered the incentive of no black marks, no being treated as financially untouchable and no waiting six years for credit blemishes to be overlooked. Being a funt can mean losing your home, being denied a mortgage or even rented accommodation. It can mean not getting a new job, being denied insurance, not getting a credit card – and being denied access to lower cost internet shopping. It can mean being denied a pension or savings account.
For most funts, who have learned a lesson and are proving they are willing to do their best to repay their debts, it is an unfair response. We hope the Government will help them..
Current signatories
Andrew Smith, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- David Mond
- edward gee
- Jackie Batstone
- Holly O'Connor
- Simon Lee
- Laura Fitzgerald
- Allan Humphreys
- richard rubin
- Katherine Oxtoby
- Teresa Quinsey
- Patrick Blewer
- Roderick Watt
- Tikhon Savrasov
- steven wiseglass
- Christine Walker
- Cheryl Allen
- rashid Bhana
- Sarah Rigley
- Jane Smith
- Shane Quigley
- Maya Premjee
- Sarah Jordan
- Elizabeth Joanne Robinson
- david wilding
- Malcolm Slade
- Rachel Key
- Peter Hough
- Adam Preston
- Brian Kenny
- Matthew Bannon
- Mickey Mouse
- Margaret King
- Elaine Brass
- Jane Davies
- leon selway
- Colin Johnson
- Robert Phillpott
- Tracey Green
- Victoria Warbrooke
- Craig Thomson
- Alan Attfield
- Julie Affleck
- ian thomas
- Mark Powell
- Andrea
- Vanessa Smith
- Sue Goolcharan
- James Dunn
- Marc Carter
- lynne chazer
- susan stanley
- Lesley Jowsey
- Hayley Poulton
- Bryan Powell
- C. WOOD
- beverley a elmas
- Martin Birch
- Janet Ingham
- jennifer williams
- adrian evans
- jackie meskell
- Babette Vann
- Sharon Moloney
- colin gibb
- Christopher Miller
- joanne boyle
- Craig James Bell
- Suzan Billard
- J Dove
- David JOHNSON
- Christopher Timothy Bamber
- George Gergianakis
- Adam Stuttle
- J Pope
- Jayne Mather
- Lorraine M Copley
- Edward Brawn
- Shayla Daniel
- Phill Sandford
- Philippa Smith
- L FEARNEHOUGH
- David Jarrett
- Derek P
- Glen Baldwin
