First Tuesday Trevor It's the Bailiffs (1985)

[@robertb7918]

I worked for an Inland Revenue collector of taxes office from 1984 to 1988. How bailiffs are deployed seems to have changed a great deal since then. It must be remembered that this is a television programme and the producers want a good story and so are going to use the most extreme cases. It is notable that none of the defaulters seem to notice that a television crew is surrounding them. Distraint by a bailiff was always a threat made to non-payers but was always a last resort. Bailiffs charged for their services and often the goods distrained were of little value. They would have to be sold at auction and the amount recovered was often a fraction of the tax owed. Therefore we would have accepted any offer to pay by instalments in order to avoid using bailiffs. Bailiffs were only called in after repeated attempts to come to an arrangement which would include telephone calls and then home visits. Bailiffs tended to be called when either the defaulter refused outright to pay anything or when they failed to engage with us in any way. Bailiffs did tend to act as a deterrent as when one business was visited the the bailiffs, several other companies in the area paid up. Bailiffs were only used when the only alternative was to say "never mind we'll forget about what you owe."

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

That's a very convoluted way just to say you are a bottom feeder.

[@Fatpig-fq3vb]

That blue Mazda 616 would be worth serious cash now good ones go £9k mad to think it was worth £100 tops in 85 To think 5 years later Thatcher got a bloody nose as the polltax riots of 1990 exploded at the unfairness of Tory rule and austerity . Im guessing even the younger Bailiff is probably passed now .

[@Sol-Cutta]

Yes the younger one if still alive will be around 75-85 yrs

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

People looked older back then. So if the younger bailiff was 30 back in 85 he would be 69 now in 2024. A very achievable age.

[@adair-y6h]

Poor man and his disabled little child so sad😢 yeah pick on the VUNRIBLE evil beyond words 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

[@ANonymous-yj8ch]

Vulnerable

[@09weenic]

These Baliffs have a job to do - they have mortgages bills and kids to feed as well

[@jodiefindlay382]

Bullies arse holes vile

[@jodiefindlay382]

​@09weenic please go work as a bouncer lol no they wouldn't be able to bully then would they I'd rather sweep the streets than do that to poor families Probley both got bullied at school and didn't make the police force WANKERS

[@helentrove620]

@@09weenic But who would choose to have such a job? I think you would have to be pretty cold hearted/no compassion or empathy to actually choose this kind of work.

[@Doctor.Kästien.Louis.Rosenberg]

@Grove Thank you so very much for uploading such “ Gems” . Truly awesome channel, and content my friend. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯💎🫡

[@P_owie]

I'm watching this in 2024. it's like a bloody nightmare. I can't believe this happened. Nowadays, they can't take your couch or your TV or anything like that. The car is one, unless it's on finance. "I'm just doing my job" How many times do you hear that? 😡

[@richrichie378]

Citizens aren't so compliant these days, bailiffs need an army of police to attend and still don't get much.. most of the time bailiffs are more racketeers anyway

[@irenemorley75]

POLICE.......🤔....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.......🙄......🤮

[@leea2112]

If this was 2024 this would never happen if you are a migrant ! Free everything for them it makes me want to puke !!! These poor honest working families with disabilities and pensioners they have it in for nowadays speak foreign you get it all free !!

[@Dan23_7]

True, they’re nothing but freeloaders and our government needs stringing up for helping them and not us brits.

[@janlundberg5924]

?

[@martinwilkinson7939]

Do you have a quota of migrant comments to meet? You're really reaching with this one but very creative, 10 our of 10.

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

@@martinwilkinson7939 Listen, Martin, people are allowed to say what they want, despite how you commies feel. If you don't like it, I suggest you go and touch some grass, or build an A-frame and use it, ma'am.

[@combrogi]

I worked for 18 years as a warrant officer for the Magistrates count. I never took property only money and the person. Most people if you talk to them properly can be dealt with in a friendly way making life better for everyone.

[@kc1973able]

Ahh the 80’s my childhood 👍

[@loannaxxx8845]

That's why I pay all my bills first scary

[@irenemorley75]

Yes, that is life.💯👌👍

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Same here the essential fixed costs get paid first and other things can wait!

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

And when you lose your job? Are you gonna shitout gold bars to pay the bills?

[@mistofoles]

I'm in debt myself - The thing to do is before it gets to this stage, is contact your debtors and see if you can come to some arrangement - If it's an official company, they are usually ameniable to negotiation,. Failing that, you can go to go to citzens' advice, they can negotiate on your behalf.

[@Podgey25]

Nowadays It's the system that's ti blame. Enticing us to borrow more. Offering more and more credit.

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Thing is places like banks and credit card places aren't your mates!

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Usually if you are honest with creditors they are sympathetic and don't want to take you to court as its extremely stressful for all involved!

[@Waynzo-i3w]

Yes indeed, step change is a free charity and they deal with the creditors on your behalf, the creditors will happily work with step change and you just do a financial statement and they take what you can spare.

[@catsmeow1037]

Blimey shoefayre ...its sp interesting watching these and seeing the old familiar shops

[@benwilliams2135]

They drive that van like phsyco's!

[@MarcusWainwright]

They took are tv in the middle of Logan’s run my favourite tv programme i was gutted it was the late 70s I think

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

Lol

[@Podgey25]

I had a tv on tick from Granada. The intrest was so high that it was more than the tv. They came and took it back. I was 18 when i got it and noone explained the intrest rate to me.

[@scooby2142]

Luckily - The "A" Team came straight round and sorted 'em out.

[@sexyhomeowner9345]

Lmao

[@20thCB]

How big were Jonathon Dimbleby's specs hey.

[@sonnysingh2617]

This video reminds me how harsh the mid-80s where when I was a teenager..for example no concession for that family with a disabled child which is such a shame and very sad indeed..however at the end of the day, there has to be accountability and responsibility..it all boils down to people mis-managing their financial affairs 😮 and not alerting authorities of financial problems to seek resolutions or work out a payment plan in case of job loss or income changes.. rather than waiting for big burley no-nonsense balliffs to knock on your door 😮 otherwise it’s the ultimate shame, embarrassment and humiliation to have your home items taken away 😢 in my book, leading a financially peaceful life is about watching every penny / pound of expenditure 👍 which helps me to have a sound night’s sleep 😮 just don’t owe anybody any money simply live within your means and don’t buy anything on credit ..On a positive note, I used to love listening to those easy listening musical tones of the First Tuesday TV programme🙏

[@garycooper9207]

In my country Finland, they also took everything but then they made a law you cannot take any of the kid's stuff or beds.

[@irenemorley75]

Simple 🤔pay you're way.........what adult would put their own child through this🤔🙄

[@brianmorecombe2726]

Other than anyone suffering employment loss, bereavement,divorce, medical problems or accident casualities there`s utterly no reason why you shouldnt pay your dues.Pay what the system asks and all your other debts and you dont get the bailiffs.Bailiffs dont hassle everyone.They only knock on the doors of people who dont pay.PAY UP.

[@Sol-Cutta]

Simp

[@brianmorecombe2726]

@@Sol-Cutta Simp why? You`re an effing Simp.

[@lanabills4498]

If those rules applied in equal measure to all, this might almost be palatable ... But let's get real...the haves have accountants and they pay very little tax. It is ridiculous. Not much has changed since the victorian days.

[@kehindeemiabata4032]

These days the bailiffs are not alliwed to take the tv and kids toys and a car if its used for work.

[@irenemorley75]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I see someone has had to do their homework🤔🙄

[@DonnellOkafor_hateslgbtq]

Yes they are

[@Sam-bz1hr]

means tested so no they can't ​@@DonnellOkafor_hateslgbtq

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

@@DonnellOkafor_hateslgbtq Why is an African trying to tell Brits how their country works? Stick to scoffing your mud pies, D'shaun

[@badgermcspoon11]

Scummy men both of them they have no honour.

[@chloehansom4402]

Them Bailiffs have judgement Day on there Concience..Disgusting way to make a Living

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

I think that's a bit harsh? Some people do just take the Mickey. There have been times, politically, when debt is encouraged and times when the bailiffs are allowed to be more heavy handed. But that first family were hopeless. First the cars belonged to someone else then he was giving one as part payment,then it was a pig in a poke anyway. Then he said he was paying a mortgage, but it was a council house,he told the bailiffs that half the stuff in the house hadn't been paid for,then said they'd just had central heating put in. The debt was supposed to be two years old yet she was complaining 'they' hadn't given enough time and explanation! Using the child to try and elicit sympathy wasn't very nice either. There has to be an end at some point,if not the threat of bailiffs,then what?

[@justamumful]

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6tsif it was a council owned property, the council would be paying for the central heating, not the tenants.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

@@justamumful exactly. Everything they said just contradicted what they said in the previous breath 🤷

people need to live within their means and ALWAYS pay their bills..!

[@irenemorley75]

I guess you are another💩bag that thinks everything is for free ,I'm sure we pay double for people like you.🤮

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Thank you for loading all these, I'm steadily working my through them! So interesting, hasn't the world changed. Nothing to do with immigration, which I'm getting really sick of seeing blamed for everything from the weather onwards 😂 It's us..we need to take responsibility. My daughter is always asking me why my generation messed everything up. It's us,in our 40's and 50's who didn't teach the next generation how to cook,or parent their children. Didn't take them to church or read them stories, they were given TVs in their bedrooms and ready meals. The nicest things in life that everyone moans about the absence of just weren't passed on. We can hardly complain when we are part of the problem. People don't want to put in the effort to make a community,so there isn't one.

[@ClaraDbanvl]

I bet you love pissin on chips. Lighten up.

[@epiphanyx3705]

Yeah your crap. My parents taught me everything. Give yourself a good hiding Ya weak-minded gullible bot.

[@epiphanyx3705]

No its not 'us" its you. So using a bladed article On native kids as a gimmigrant is not to blame. You loony. You are the problem.

[@Taylor23890]

I disagree to a certain extent, we’ve maybe become more entitled and yes immigration numbers are at a high level for what we have the resources for .

[@moominmay]

@@Taylor23890yes but it’s not the overriding reason for all the issues the country faces today. Retro channels attract an increasing number of hateful comments blaming immigrants for everything without expanding on the precise facts and it’s so annoying. They drop their comments then cowardly just leave the chat when questioned further. That tells me a lot.

[@danieljones3955]

Can’t beat a bit of Maiden

[@anthonymee2599]

Do they have no compassion...........poor woman with a disabled daughter.......its disgusting!!

[@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio]

Is the Tibetan Temple still their❓

[@PamelaTurnbull-s2k]

Our rates were £85 per year in 1985, and were paid on time as was the mortgage; sod the food !!!

[@jacqueline8559]

True. My mum always told us to pay our mortgage first, then all the bills. We could always survive on eggs, beans, bacon, 'whatever' on toast or homemade soup, which is still cheap and nutritious. She was right. Homelessness should be the last choice. These people admitted to not paying their debts, even after negotiating lower monthly payments, in some cases. We've had our really tough times, financially ,I know how hard it is. We followed her advice,and we both worked any available overtime, and we got through . Why, if wages were so low, did they have big families?. We could afford to provide, and care for, 2 children and that's what we had. Nothings changed, it seems. Personal responsibility is non existent. (Not including the people ,who are being evicted from private rental homes, with 'no blame 'evictions)

[@scooby2142]

@@jacqueline8559 MY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY was to never have children and very much stay out of relationships. I worked for over 40 years solid, working all the overtime I could stand, but I never could get a mortgage. I was renting from a private landlord who would constantly force other lodgers onto me - who all left without paying the water, electricity, gas or council tax. I had to borrow to keep that roof over my head when the bailiffs came round because all those debtors were under my name at that address. Then I was trapped there because I could not afford to move out. Gradually the bank wore me down with loan after loan after loan before the loan ever got fully paid - and the way they did that was to suddenly BAR my overdraft and account and force me into the bank to sign ANYTHING I COULD to free up my current account. You get off your high horse LADY. You know nothing about circumstances.

[@kamranhashmi1575]

Bailiffs prey on the poor weak and vulnerable of the society 😮

[@oatesprojects]

They don't they prey on people who don't pay their fines, if you were owed compensation you'd be wanting something done too.

[@kamranhashmi1575]

@oatesprojects if I was due compensation from a poor family,and who has a disabled daughter aswell,I would rather not whant the compensation

[@Nith-t8h]

Did he just tell that very very!! recent widower to cheer up?!

[@mikalilypops3259]

😮that’s disgusting 😡

[@irenemorley75]

@@mikalilypops3259 Not paying you're own way is disgusting, using excuses is disgusting.🙄

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

That's rude telling someone recently bereaved to cheer up!

[@helentrove620]

@@irenemorley75 Are you/were you a bailiff? You fit the bill perfectly & hope you are proud of yourself!

[@MisterSands]

​@@irenemorley75Do you have a soul?

[@michaelgoulding6609]

i would much rather be unemployed than work as a bailiff or a traffic wardan.

[@margaretmaskell9985]

Pay your Bills and park your car correctly and you will never have to deal with either.

[@LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise]

Poor cockatiel 😞 I have two myself. how can they take its cage 😞 the disabled child too 😞should be a law to protect the property of a child. i was called a cystic because i have cystic fibrosis back then.

[@irenemorley75]

Oh please........used said child thinking they could get away with anything ( grow up 🙄)

[@wezzbeet2923]

Well he's called a SPASTIC

[@ShaneBell-ly6jq]

Scum

[@LadyCleo1]

Good old yorkshire tv.

[@iancameron6124]

someone use like recorders thank you

[@101curlywurly]

Pardon?

[@iancameron6124]

@@101curlywurly joke m8, dont mean eat bad

[@irenemorley75]

@@iancameron6124 What are you on about ?🙄

[@iancameron6124]

@@irenemorley75 its only a joke mate, was talking about vhs, recorders, I'm not a troll or ewt like that, ya probably dont get it. as really was bad joke. hope that cleared things up.

[@jodiefindlay382]

Omg they have a disabled child 😢😢how do they sleep at night and hes been laid off sorry i have to stop watching xx thank u i do love these old docs just not this one 😢😢

[@beachamgroup2482]

Seemed decent chaps.

[@irenemorley75]

Yes, if people paid their way then there wouldn't be any need for this.👌👍

[@helentrove620]

20.38 I do feel sorry for this couple & even more so their poor 6 children but surely they shouldn't have had so many children if they weren't capable of keeping them in a furnished home on their low income 😔

[@froggy8030]

That guy climbing in the window can't be right, that's B and E didn't even introduce themselves

[@veronicaboyce6794]

Heartless😂

[@Victor-z7t6q]

Rich man poor man, disgusting

[@dantemedici8179]

Just pay your bills …. It’s not hard

[@MarySmith-l8i]

Horrible. Heartless bailiffs. Only nasty people can do that job 😢🤬

[@froggy8030]

The guy in the blue shirt strikes me as a bit psychopathic

[@irenemorley75]

Why does everyone back in the day sound backwards, 🤣🤔🙄

[@johnpineapple3329]

They just weren’t as sophisticated as you.

[@biglongun]

Says the clown using three emojis

[@20thCB]

You've never been oop north have you?

[@artemiszeus9735]

Accents were broader even when people spoke standard English. I will die on this hill.

[@elizabethwaite-no6rq]

The bailiffs drive like maniacs

[@jamesoneill2933]

C_ _ _s

[@lisawoodhouse5442]

Sad

[@TomBartram-b1c]

Omg scary

[@emmaseager1006]

Bovver boys these days I’d is required etc and not allowed to take sofas if you only have one no beds fridge cookers etc nothing that belongs to the kids and anything on HP

[@DonnellOkafor_hateslgbtq]

You're a loser if bailiffs come to take your stuff. Pay your bills

[@Jamie-b2o]

Bailiffs shit house's then and shit house's now nothings changed apart from cognitive skills😂

[@TheTacticalHaggis]

The only difference is they sounded a little posh back then. Now they're just buck toothed high school dropouts with no career other than being government boot lickers.

[@geoffsullivan4063]

Right off the bat.. This is the worst acting I have ever seen.

[@wezzbeet2923]

I thought what's he onabout, till "my wife's passed away this morning waaaaaa

[@gorgonbukio]

cant pay, wont pay....