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Adding all of these to my wish list.
Ukraine Books. FICTION 🇺🇦
Hello all!
With the popularity of my previous thread on Ukraine which was all non-fiction and history I have decided to write a thread on fiction. These are either written by Ukrainians, about Ukrainians or set on the territory of Ukraine.
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Hey, @Iromg Mike, listening to your talk just now about Cerberus being a three headed dog. Well the government after the crash of 2008 sold our N Rock mortgage to a non lending USA vulture fund called Cerberus; we are still trapped on over 9% interest rates. @mortgageprison
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Plus spare a thought for #mortgageprisoners who've been paying over the odds for 15 years. Many will now have totally unaffordable 9% mortgages. Help for them is desperately needed.
Yes Bookclub at @GoldfinchBooks_ in Alton, Hampshire SO GOOD there is a WAITING LIST!
Glad you enjoyed it @MandaNReads Looking forward to book club soon at @GoldfinchBooks_ ❤️📚
Mortgage payments doubled too for UK Ex N. Rock mortgage prisoners and @Conservatives government have refused any meaningful help for OVER A DECADE now so unlikely to start supporting those who will struggle when their current fixed rate ends. @mortgageprison @RishiSunak
'You're Type 2 diabetic and you're skipping meals because you can't afford to have three meals a day?!'
As the government argue they are doing all they can to help with increasing mortgage rates, @BenKentish hears from this caller whose mortgage has doubled...
YES @JohnGlenUK, @HelpforHeroes are great, helped me with respite care whilst caring for my Falklands War disabled Veteran husband. You though prevented all meaningful much needed support for us as UK #mortgageprisoner. Shame on you. Situation now critical. @mortgageprison
Thank you to all those who contributed so generously for @HelpforHeroes earlier at Tesco Extra Southampton Road - a remarkable Salisbury based charity which continues to do so much for those who gave us so much more
Favourite indie bookshop without doubt is @GoldfinchBooks_ in Alton. So much more than a bookshop, it has author events, 4 bookclubs, home made cakes, writing groups and Penguin author @LouiseMorrish1 ! A wonderful place to hang out!
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Thank you from the bottom of my heart @MartinJDocherty for raising this. I'm a mortgage prisoner too; terrified we might get yet another rate rise next month. I'm already paying 8.39%. My MP @DamianHinds hasn't responded to my email to him about this. The position is desperate.
Since 2008, thousands of people like my constituent Chris have been trapped paying extortionate rates on their mortgages.
BoE rate rises risk pushing many more over the edge.
The govt bailed out the banks, when will they do what's needed to help #UKMortgagePrisoners
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I am working on a special summer series looking at how people are managing with the cost of living crisis. Really keen to hear from families or households who have changed a lot of their habits and spending to protect themselves against rising costs. Get in touch! And pls share🙂
Thank you @MartinSLewis for speaking so passionately about this. Every BoE 0.25% rate rise means Landmark Mortgages, an American Vulture Fund the British government sold my N. Rock mortgage to take an additional £30 from my already stretched finances monthly. Its devastating.
Martin Lewis has told LBC that today's interest rate rise will have a 'limited' effect on most mortgage holders, although 'mortgage prisoners' will feel a 'terrible' impact
lbc.co.uk/news/martin-lewis-…
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Thanks for pushing @Jeremy_Hunt for #mortgageprisoners to be included in #Budget2023 After hearing @hmtreasury in the @UKHouseofLords yesterday I don't think many have opened the report yet. We must keep up the pressure, till they put right their wrong doings & free 200k victims
I'm a mortgage prisoner, ex Northern Rock, paying crippling interest rates because the government sold my UK high street mortgage to a non regulated US vulture fund.
Please everybody, read this from @MartinSLewis and re tweet far and wide. Thank you. #ukmortgageprisoners
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Indeed you did and nationalised the Northern Rock and sold it on making 2.4 billion. You sold our mortgages on to non active lenders knowing the risks. You betrayed us and created mortgage prisoners. You have destroyed families and lives. We Justice for @mortgageprison
“Thirteen years ago, we inherited an economy which had crashed”
@Jeremy_Hunt on today’s #Budget2023.
Who could forget their letter?
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Thankyou so much for raising this . What a state we are in . Begging govt to help us for over a decade . They put us here and they have left protection absent from the sale , the sale that made them 2.4 billion surplus . Value for the tax payer? We are the tax payer !
#MortgagePrisoners - what a state our country is in when @MartinSLewis could be their saviour.
In 2021 #HouseofLords voted for action to help them, but government over-ruled
@APPGMortgage
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As a tax payer & #mortgageprisoner I think it’s fair I saw some of the multi-billion profit you made when selling my mortgage on to an inactive, profiteering lender (Heliodor>Topaz>@Computershare). #Budget23 #Budget4MortgagePrisoners @RachelReevesMP @APPGMortgage @FishwickDavid
📣 Our new report 'Releasing the mortgage prisoners' commissioned by @MoneySavingExp is now available online an provides costed solutions to the situation facing mortgage prisoners.
🌐 Learn more at bit.ly/3kGP2Tt
📚 Read the full report here bit.ly/3YeqfUx
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The Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt steps up to deliver the budget and says mortgage rates are lower. He clearly has failed to look at #mortgageprisoners rates! But @griffitha @hmtreasury @Conservatives would rather victim blame those they sold to non lending entities @ukmortgageprison
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@griffitha @AlunCairns we have long being saying the detriment being @mortgageprison has had on health and now it’s confirmed you made £2.4b from our misery. People have committed suicide over this. Action is needed now
