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Jake Wallis Simons reviews Repo Man, the first part of a Channel 4 documentary series which follows bailiff Sean James as he confronts people across the UK who fail to keep up their repayments.
Sean James isn’t the sharpest tool in the box. But he’s built like a brick lavatory, which is what matters. And he has oodles of what my grandfather used to call “native cunning”. Which makes him the perfect Repo Man (Channel 4). James is the antihero who tracks you down, day or night, and repossesses your belongings on behalf of the “finance companies”. He’ll drive your car away. He’ll rip out your cooker from the wall. He’ll hide around a corner until you come along, then spring out in a black paramilitary uniform. Think removal man meets the Punisher. Last night we were introduced to Sean and his sidekicks, such as Reece Jones, a 25-year-old part-time scaffolder, Marcus Portman, a heavily tattooed, retired boxing champion. We gasped as they snatched the car keys out of the hands of a sobbing lady (“that went well, dinnit?”); wrestled a young car owner – or erstwhile car owner – to the floor (“walk away or you’re going to get hurt”); and, in quieter moments, reflected on the state of the nation (“Hand out Britain, innit? Don’t make you proud to live here any more”).....Read more here
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Teaching Kid how to use the Nunchuk, taking your kid late at night to the Park (and telling your Kid, “watch that lot over there, I don’t want to have to strangle nobody”)
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Debt collectors featured in "The Repo Man" lose credit licence under new OFT powers. The debt collecting firm featured in the Channel Four hit series "The Repo Man" has been stripped of its credit licence by the Office of Fair Trading "in order to protect consumers". This is the first time that the OFT has exercised new powers, which give it the ability to suspend a credit licence with immediate effect if there is the potential for serious consumer detriment. The firm, Donegal Finance Limited, was licenced to offer consumer credit, credit brokerage and debt collecting services. It was its debt collecting business featured in the recent two-part C4 documentary, screened in May this year....Read more here