On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:38:43 +0000, MM wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:03:42 +0000, Alex Heney
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:08:46 GMT, Mike_B
>>wrote:
>>
>>>In message , Alex Heney
>>> writes
>>>>On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:55:40 +0000, MM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:40:50 -0700 (PDT), Tommo
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>>>"Thousands" eh? Well even if that is true (and I have my doubts)
>>>>>
>>>>>Dispel those doubts! My figure was wildly inaccurate. It should
>>>>>actually be not thousands, but around 2.8 MILLION adults in the UK
>>>>>without a bank account, according to Citizens Advice.
>>>>>http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/pressoffice/press_index/press_06
>>>>>0124.htm
>>>>>These figures are from January 2006, so I don't suppose there will
>>>>>have been a vast change in two years.
>>>>
>>>>I would be interested to know where they got that "figure" from.
>>>>
>>>>It seems incredibly unlikely to me that it is anywhere *near* that
>>>>high.
>>>>
>>>>2-3% of households would seem awfully high but just about plausible.
>>>>
>>>>12% just seems bonkers to me, without knowing where the figures came
>>>>from.
>>>
>>>2.5 million adults does not equate to 2.5 million households.
>>
>>I know, and I never suggested for one moment that it might.
>>
>>But I was misreading the article :(. It doesn't say 12%, it says 1 in
>>12 households, which is just under 8%. Which still seems ridiculously
>>high.
>
>Why "ridiculous"?
Because I find it almost impossible to believe it is really that high.
I want to know where and how those figures were obtained before I
accept them as valid, given how unlikely they seem to me.
> Do you believe that anyone who does not think as you
>do is an idiot?
Of course not.
Is that question supposed to have the slightest shred of relevance, or
was it just pointlessly insulting?
>What happened to British tolerance and freedom of
>choice?
I wasn't aware anything had happened to it, in general. Why do you
think something might have?
> You seem reluctant to accept that so many citizens either
>choose or are forced to live without a bank account.
Yes, I am very reluctant to accept that. I simply find it very hard to
believe.
I'm not sure why, but you seem to have two completely different and
unrelated themes running through your response here.
One is suggesting (rightly) that I find it hard to believe the
statement made by CAB that 1 in 12 households have no adult with a
bank account.
The other appears to be suggesting (utterly wrongly) that I am in some
way against them so choosing (where it is choice)
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
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