SCREWS THE POOR

£20 CHARGE FOR EACH TELEPHONE CALL

National Home Loans and Paragon Personal Finance, divisions of Paragon Finance plc,
have written to customers announcing outrageous new charges for contacting them should they happen to fall into arrears on repayments of loans for whatever reason. 

These charges seek to exploit the most vulnerable members of society who may already be paying usurious rates of interest of up to 30%.

£79.38 FEE FOR EACH VISIT BY AN AGENT
(whether requested or not) 

Paragon are well known for their exploitive and underhand dealings with clients who find themselves in difficulty, as well as using the small print in contracts to enforce their extortionate rates of interest after a Court Judgment, even when the Court has not ordered interest to be paid. 

£10 CHARGE FOR EACH ARREARS LETTER

Even High Street banks like Barclays ignore the fact that ruling interest rates are at their lowest for over 30 years. While the Bank of England rate is only 4%, they may charge nearly four times that on loans they make to the public while paying as little as 1/4% on deposits. Even such exorbitant High Street bank rates are not available to the poorest in society, especially if they have had a county court judgment registered against them. 

Often pensioners and the disabled are refused loans even though their state benefit incomes are more secure than any other income. While the ravenous Paragon refuse to make loans to people over 60 years old no matter how large their income or the value of the property on which the loan would be secured.

Such are the benefits of Capitalism!

ARGOS, the high street catalogue store, is trampling on workers' rights in Scotland not to work at weekends. In a country where many people refuse to work on Sundays, which is their Sabbath, is utterly intolerable. Businesses wanting to work in all countries should be allowed to do so only according to conditions which the people decide suits them. 

A number of women in Scotland who had signed contracts to work Monday to Friday only were told by ARGOS that they must work some weekends or lose their jobs. This arrogant business had discovered that laws which protect workers in England and Wales from victimisation for refusing to work on Sundays do not apply in Scotland. Having got used to exploiting their workers with low wages, ARGOS decided it could also exploit the weakness in Scottish law to force their workers to kowtow to their demands.

But it is not just their discrimination against workers on religious grounds, ARGOS has shown no concern for the problems of women for whom there are no economical child minding facilities. It is a case of work the hours we order or go. Let us all, throughout the British Isles and around the world show this bully-boy corporation that, when they try to trample us beneath their cruel feet, we can make them pay .

 Lets BOYCOTT ARGOS.
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