The Cook Report 1988 Loan Sharks

Roger Cook confronts loan sharks in Glasgow. PLEASE NOTE: The drop out at 09.43 lasts 12 seconds and was a transmission fault during the actual broadcast as per the apology at the end.

[@jjones4627]

Cook was the original undercover man....death threats from all over the world Thanks for the uploads Martin, Great to see TV when it was TV

[@pommiebears]

J Jones I don’t watch TV anymore. It’s all crap!

[@Rubycon99]

These are awesome little documentaries. I've been really enjoying them. You Brits were lucky to have some great TV.

[@slinkiegirl2001]

that poor man had crap thrown over him and urine, but he still was not put off he deserved a knighthood

[@vlloyd46]

Roger Cook ROCKS!!!! I remember seeing him regularly getting beaten up. He had big balls confronting the scum. I was very young when the Cook Report was on. I'm 50 now! KZbin's great.

[@peterhoey7453]

He took some beatings didn't he.

[@slinkiegirl2001]

you are my age i was hooked on the show i was gutted when it went off air

[@michaelmarron8441]

@@peterhoey7453 Worst beating I've seen him take was off an Antique Dealer! The genteel profession of selling objets D'Art was replaced with the shop-keeper leathering Cookey with a metal crowbar!

[@johnmc3862]

@@peterhoey7453He never got tired of those beatings!

[@user-dp6cw9po5k]

@@peterhoey7453 You're Not Kidding! Batted with Umbrellas & Billiard Cues, Burnt by Cigars & Rigged Cars, Ran Over, Punched, Kicked, Smacked, Roger Cook was Injured 16 Times, He's had black Eyes, His Fingers & Hands Broken, Cracked a few Ribs, Hit by a Lorry which Broke his Back, Several Lacerations & Multiple Bruises in his Time as an Investigative Journalist.🤕

[@robspencer35]

We need more reporters like Mr. Cook...NOW especially more than ever.

[@SpeccyHorace]

Why NOW more than ever?

[@Xfhjjkkkufxdxcvvsdx]

Too dangerous now, they’ll get stabbed up, the level of violence is much worse and ruthless now even Donald McIntyre wouldn’t risk it, only panaroma left

[@bobotett4320]

I love the way Roger Cook confronted these scumbags without any fear, I admire him for that

[@bennym5244]

He pulls his socks right up to the knees and goes in.

[@chico58169]

my uncle was a gentleman j didn’t take shite and made money long live aikey 🕊️

[@johnmc3862]

Indeed but it’s easier with a camera crew to record any violence.

[@rizzzla]

14000000% intrest rate, still cheaper then Brighthouse

[@retrorambles517]

Brilliant

[@Tuberuser187]

I know its a joke but makes you think, did Provident and Brighthouse and pay day loan companies look at the money the loansharks where making and wanted a legalised cut of it?

[@angiemetcalfe7210]

I've bumped Brighthouse when I was younger and Provident (repeatedly)

[@barty2381]

@@angiemetcalfe7210 😆 🤣

[@garysimpson3258]

When Bright house first opened there doors, as I did hear it was run by villians, they sent heavies to a door if the payments stopped being made for the item purchased. I know someone who paid £1,000 for an item, they had two payments to make then they owned the item, but the two payments had not been made for two month, so they sent two heavies and they took the item back. They would of just resold the product. Arseholes

[@terencehennegan1439]

Roger Cook was the best of the best, his courage, tenacity and authenticity was admirable to say the least. An amazing journalist, an amazing man.

[@Youtuber-qt5rn]

I miss the cook report!

[@jimmy_junk]

The world needs the cook report now, more then ever.

[@Tommytucamoto]

Ball of steel so much respect for Roger cook

[@billynomates7347]

I can hardly believe how shit everything was in the 1980s for ordinary people. I was only a child, living in abject poverty, my parents worked hard and got us out of the hole but these days if anything reminded them of those times, they would wince and shudder. Roger Cook was a hero back in the day. Absolute leg end.

[@billynomates7347]

It's weird because back in the day people could rent big houses for nothing which today change hands for £500,000 but back then they couldn't afford furniture, or even food.

[@Haydn3560]

@@billynomates7347 despite what some people may try and tell you 2019 and onwards is the best time to be alive in terms of everything. Its actually shocking how much progress weve made as a society in the last 30 years

[@thesoultwins72]

@@Haydn3560 …..please get back on your meds

[@LIVERNIL723]

My Parents struggled too of abject poverty as you put it. My Dad experienced having to be unemployed and my Mum with her health condition working Part-Time. Money has always been there, but in the City. I have to disagree as Society now has gone to the Dogs with Property Prices Sky High, and the Country filled with Immigrants, some in which leeching off the Welfare System.

[@dragonborn3609]

@@billynomates7347 It still feels like that over here at least in America. Doesn't sound like much has changed over the decades.

[@howey935]

I went to school with a lad who ended up killing a loan shark when he tried to lean on him to pay interest after he’d already paid 4 times the original debt back. That was 19 years ago and he’s still in prison.

[@beakycole9211]

He was only supposed to serve 6 months but with interest he gets out in 2043..

[@williamlane9844]

beaky cole sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, its Low class,

[@simsimo7655]

@@beakycole9211 Brilliant comment

[@leehollebon3393]

@@beakycole9211 how's your mum

[@howey935]

@@beakycole9211 hahaha funny as fuck mate.

[@billygiles3276]

When real journalism still existed

[@andrewjames9996]

Now journalists just virtue signal or have a political agenda.

[@EarlFaulk]

Nothing has changed these days.....except we have legalized loansharking these days in the form of Pay day places. They take almost 50% of your weekly paycheck sometimes more. They have tried to regulate them recently, so it may not be as bad.

[@EarlFaulk]

Cliff Hanley No theyll just ruin your credit for years. Ensuring you can never move out of your shit neighborhood. Theres also plenty of obfuscation in thosr contracts they make you sign. Ensuring that they get away with predatory practices

[@burnleyfan11965]

Player1 Thing is these days its working people who go short as well.Theres no way people working should need to use a food bank.but because of this changeover to Universal Credit,their working Tax credits get screwed up.That said we should take far more people out of income tax altogether.daft taking it with one hand and giving back with another. we could chop a few low grade civil servants as well.They could do a useful job like taking in washing as most junior civil servants ive had dealings with havent been up to a real job

[@marudoethiopia]

Yeah, and our regulation has been closing them down opening up new markets for actual loan sharks.

[@slinkiegirl2001]

i rented out a tv from BrightHouse i was shocked on how much i had to pay back because it was a small amount each week i did not notice and vanquis i borrowed 200 i ended up paying back over 500 depending on how long it took you to pay it back they were legal loan sharks

[@Del-Blanco-Diablo]

Yeah but they're no gonna try and burn your house down for not paying, Scotland is actually Britains safe haven for ppl running away from debt thanks too tommy sheridian and the poll tax riots.

[@Sourcecode01]

We need more like him especially now!!!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Amazing really - 30 yrs on, not a lot has changed!

[@2Sorts]

Spot on.

[@maureenshaw8633]

Loved watching these episodes as a kid. Roger Cook is the man

[@johnmscott4556]

Real British grit, really miss this sort of television.

[@corydorastube]

Roger Cook is not British, he is a New Zealander.

[@davestar4718]

@@corydorastube its still British TV. Clever arse

[@jamiestainer9389]

Kiwis have a famous intolerance for bulldhit

[@andrewcrouch2362]

The cook report was just the best proper old time programme to watch roger cook wasant bothered about no one fact he says it how it was

[@johnmscott4556]

Incredible memories, cook, what a man.

[@The_welder_]

Incredible memories?? You sad fucker!!

[@GrayFox-xd9ww]

This show good never seen or heard of it till I came across ur channel. Really enjoy ur classic 80s stuff!

[@yorkshirecatdad3702]

Nobody has the balls to do what Mr cook did back in the day respect to Mr cook for all the hardwork and sometimes putting himself in danger just so we hear about these stories

[@steveJ1957]

Cheers for the Upload :-)

[@scotsboy4957]

Thanks for uploading.

[@hasitcometothis7431]

Roger Cook a hero

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

Thanks for uploading this Mr Windpipe!

[@westie0113uk]

9 loan sharks dont like this video.

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

I used to watch these as a young kid. Good classic honest TV.

[@liamcronin8110]

Thanks Martin its appreciated pal

[@dowdallerno1]

The 80s were full of budding entrepreneurs, Thatcher would have been so proud.

[@vantheman1238]

Roger Cook what a man bloody fearless

[@dobson5838]

That guy present the show is a brave guy 😂😂

[@patrickgray8368]

Today we call them Payday lenders.

[@Gingerharry2011]

I didn't get where i am today by not getting a Reggie Perrin reference

[@shammon1]

I could to this day take you to places in Glasgow where you can still do this in 2 mins and be in debt.

[@avroo]

the best of all it's the intro. he gets beat up while a happy music it's rolling in.

[@evaj.8799]

Now they doing it legally....over 1499% APR!

[@tech9auto223]

I remember this going on into the late 90s outside post offices all over Glasgow once they stopped the payment books it was harder for the sharks to collect I was a kid and grew up round there in brigton and the calton and I'm surprised they got away with it

[@thecreativemillenial]

A true journalist in action

[@DMWBN3]

He got attacked by an antique dealer from Brighton, where I'm from. It was back in 81. Used to enjoy watching him being chased around.

[@mjkrbjcw]

Mr Watto when you say attached in Brighton do you mean a gay marriage?? I would of attacked him personally

[@19822andy]

Yeah Roger had 3 ribs broken that day. His camera man had 1 broke.

[@DMWBN3]

@@mjkrbjcw you still harping on about gay marriage?? Get over it, as it happens in your town also.

[@michaelmarron8441]

The antique dealer was a crowbar wielding savage, screaming like he was in Braveheart while flaying his metal jemmy around his head like a drunken Bruce Lee

[@victwenty2324]

do the sharks give 14 million % on a savings account !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@n136h]

loan sharks, bottom dwellers

[@jeremy28135]

Those gentlemen would go on to found Titlemax®️

[@petercooke506]

Excellent TV

[@ThePAULOPABLO]

Wonga, quickquid, 118 money etc are the loan sharks of today.

[@mjkrbjcw]

palusKeg if you can’t pay wonga there’s nothing they can do , they won’t kick your door off & stab you

[@ThePAULOPABLO]

@@mjkrbjcw Rate shouldn't be allowed and you can go to jail. But we have a weak government run by our useless press.

[@brianmunich553]

They wont break ur legs though if you dont pay

[@TheOptimod]

Wonga doesn't exist anymore.

[@Vortigan07]

It's not the same thing but I remember when I was 16 or 17, I was in my first job on the old YTS scheme if anyone remembers those. I got suckered into signing up on the street for a store card, I think I bought two shirts and a pair of trousers on it the same day. Anyway, time starts to go by and I can't understand why I'm paying into this thing every week but the amount owed kept going up. Anyway through a growing panic I ended up taking the issue to my dad, he saw it instantly and he went to the bank or the post office and paid it all off immediately and gave me one of the first real hard lessons about life I'd had. Looking back of course, it's incredibly embarrassing to see how utterly naive I was. I'm guessing that whatever that practice of signing people up to store credit on the streets has long since been outlawed and I'll be forever grateful to my dad for not only getting me out of the whole I'd dug for myself, but for teaching me a valuable lesson that I've never forgotten.

[@michael5089]

Thanks for sharing. You learnt the hard way and well done dad! I too was also on a YTS Scheme!

[@GuillotineLaw1]

Couldn't the people go to the police about what the loan sharks were doing? Pouring fuel through the letter box and lighting it, Arson charge and possible attempted murder. Braking in, stealing her property, destroying it. Vandalism, trespassing, theft and arson charges. Physical assaults. What puts the loan sharks above the law?

[@marcb8934]

They should make credit more affordable for everyone

[@ruthbees7214]

Life was better then. I was 23 years old. Nice one Roger❤😂

[@damiencrowley5546]

Poor Robert Kerr. He's lent out so much money he can only afford to run a second hand Cortina that won't even start.

[@secretchocaddictabused9351]

That’s how he probably got away with it , if he was driving around in a Ferrari but living in a Glasgow tenement it would maybe start people talking .

[@audreydempsey247]

The cook report inadvertently filmed Ken Clark groping Ben fellows and covered it up.

[@Staceyatkinson4496]

Wow, the gingerbread rep is a genius isn't he "it's very simple, the reason borrow money, it's because they got no money, it's that simple really"

[@angiemetcalfe7210]

Well tbf you can't go to a loan shark for £500 then expect to just turn up a week later and say *I can't pay*

[@guym3398]

donald macintyres step dad roger cook ..

[@vistron888]

The first guy he confronts getting into his Gold Cortina, his voice can be heard as clearly when he gets in the car and shuts the door? Did they use voiceovers to dub it?

[@richardkelbie5362]

They do it alot with scottisg accents

[@saxongreen78]

Nah - they just cut the audio from an earlier part of the exchange over the video of the crook inside the car.

[@Kblog777]

Would love to have seen Roger take on Arthur Thompson.

[@gordonferrar7782]

Arthur the Grass.

[@altt-check1-2]

Wow, just looked in to this Glen Thompson guy. A real carriered criminal/mafia don

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

14 million percent interest rate!

[@apl175]

We prefer to think of ourselves as debt management specialists.

[@GuillotineLaw1]

For a time legal companies like Wonga got away with this. I believe there is has been a law passed that caps how much interest pay day lenders can get. So the borrower will pay a maximum of the amount borrowed. But before that there were horror stories of people going into debt over payday loans. Some friend recommending her sister as a money lender. One thing I don't understand about him keeping the benefits book as a guarantee they will be back, I understand being intimidated by the ones who threaten violence, but Mick for example needed to give them the benefits book so that they could get the money. When they have their book what makes them need to come back to him? If there is a treat of violence they would be intimidated, they would pay anyway so he wouldn't need it. If the only ransom was that he was holding their benefits book then once it i back in their hand what forces them to come back?

[@irishtony.2879]

Those fuckers like Wonga are no better than the mafia. They don't want you to pay them back, they want to juice you for as long as possible. Even finance companies, who aren't great, don't go out of their way to cripple people financially.

[@sz42781]

than what are the banks?

[@alisonhilll4317]

Have you seen the rates the banks charge now ?

[@vistron888]

A typical loan from a bank is about 3 to 4 % per year. That's next to nothing. I don't know what banks you're using.

[@mrzed3034]

Does anyone know where I can find the west Yorkshire episode? In Leeds?

[@richardkelbie5362]

Try youtube

[@terryclarke4758]

Roger Cook was a fucking legend!

[@LIVERNIL723]

Wish we had this Programme back on ITV. Channel 4 despatches: Weak!!!!!

[@stuarthardy3070]

Even more common today.

[@mjkrbjcw]

So if I lend a pound they want 14 million back ??

[@bitTorrenter]

Usury!

[@learnedeldersofteemo8917]

bitTorrenter oy vey

[@beakycole9211]

No 14million % is not the same as × 14m...you have to divide 14m % by 100..so £1 = £140,000..

[@russ4294]

Roger should have kept switching the anti theft switch off on the cortina when the bloke got in it

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Roger Cook's a vigilante.

[@melissabyrne8749]

Im sad as fuck strung out on these lol used to love watching it growing up

[@1000WinstonSmith]

I remember it was bad back then. Stories in the paper. No idea what it’s like now.

[@sentinal2337]

This dude was cool, is he still on TV in the UK?

[@krazyk3842]

They said no, but he is still alive.

[@sacredcoww]

Research by Jim Morrison

[@howey935]

Youd have to get them before they get you if you dont wanna go to the police.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Pretty sure this was made illegal in the Magna Carter or something, if you lent someone 100 pounds, you lent them 100 and that was what you got back. I think it was King Edward I that kicked out the money lenders from England, for ALL times, the law said...What happened, one may ask oneself.

[@mylespresbury]

i want to see the hotdog wars

[@SpikeEmma1SpikeMusic]

We could do with a few Roger Cook's working for the media today. I don't know how Roger was able to walk, with them massive balls he had.

[@billymkirkwood4956]

Rizzla nice comment about bright house... Shitehouse.. 😁😁 I'd never and would ever use those either.. just save up slowly 😎👍

[@pamelaxsx]

14,000,000% interest rate, I think someone was pulling Cookys leg

[@fursey1984]

One Drop Boxing borrowing a tenner on them rates 😂😂

[@spaceghost1480]

One Drop Boxing Not really. 14m% is based on annual interest and owing money for that duration. You borrow £10 at 50% interest per week so the interest per week plus amount owed would look like this: Week 1: £15 Week 2: £22.5 Week 3: £44.25 Week 4: £66.38 Week 5: £99.57 Week 6: £149.36 Thats 1500% in 6 weeks and the interest equivalent will rapidly increase with the amount owed. E.g. Week 7: £224.04 Week 8: £336.06 Week 9: £504.09 Week 10: £756.14 Week 11: £1131.21 Week 12: £1698.32 Week 14: £2547.48 Week 15: £3821.22 Week 16: £5731.83 Week 17: £8597.30 Week 18: £12895.95 Week 19: £19343.93 Week 20: £29015.90 290,000% Crazy shit.

[@burnleyfan11965]

Trouble is you cant just borrow the money for a week or two then pay it back with that weeks interest payment..Scum the lot of them

[@GeorgeSquare]

7.14 minutes, where in Glasgow is that?

[@cmb2934]

Somewhere with loads of people on the giro. Must be near Celtic park

[@darkdungeons184]

John Galbraith,7.14 minutes in its Bridgeton at Bridgeton cross

[@charliemctruth]

Main st Bridgeton. I'm the guy in the camel coat working undercover as a poor person.

[@EYTPS]

Beauty of the free market, amirite, guys?!!!

[@robertgalbraith3977]

the old man McCabe stayed down the stairs from my daughter's mum's house I know old Charlie had a hair trigger of a temper but I've sat in his company a few times before he died old man Charlie liked a good laugh (when he was sober) may I add

[@janinearif7850]

Robert Galbraith to class!,,

[@colinhutchings1543]

Bullys can only get away with it until someone else bullys them.

[@richardclarke376]

there's nobody like Roger Cook working today... except maybe Rob Wolchek

[@YOYO-mx6ie]

That boozer is a Mcds now

[@alexj.3375]

I wonder how she is doing now

[@iby914]

I wonder if the Greenhill brothers are still alive today?

[@LegalAlien100]

Thankfully not, sick fat fuckers. Small fish in a nasty pond full of nastier fat sharks. Their spawn sadly are though. :-(

[@johnmc3862]

Captions unavailable for the Scottish accents. 😂😂😂

[@azamjamil6899]

how common were loan sharks in the 80s glasgow?

[@DMWBN3]

AZAM JAMIL very in poor areas

[@Chilliconcarnage]

Someone should investigate Kevin Ruddock of first person finance.

[@StufiBuy]

These guys are like 50. Just give him a hard boot in the pelvis and retire him to a home.

[@catlikepizzagaming8280]

Did he say 14 million percent?

[@NoirL.A.]

can anybody translate what the standup guy said?

[@ChristopherJRobin]

Hands up anybody having trouble with their loans. Coming at your door. Jaws! Anyway, one day a woman went into a money lender's shop, asked for a loan. She said, can you give me some money please my husband's died. Sadly we're not insured and I need some money to get him put down. He says, do you have your pension book? Says yes. And do you have your supplementary benefits? She says yes. Well that's good because you must be able to make the payments. If you can't make the payments, we'll dig him back up again.

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Every person consented to the loan. Sure, its evil to do usury but people accept the offer

[@barty2381]

A borrower is a slave to the lender! 💯

[@markbadger265]

Here is a good movie- the young lad getting in the taxi with his mum at the start grows up and seeks revenge

[@hayley8715]

14,000000% interest! Is that even possible/feasible?!?

[@brightspark54]

loan sharks ffs nowadays they advertise on tv and its legal

[@neilgraham2951]

Anyone got the newcastle or dover cook reports

[@howey935]

Neil Graham the one about Newcastle security teams is on KZbin.

[@kevingarry11]

9:44 Roger roger ROGER

[@user-dp6cw9po5k]

it's worth Noting that in the closing few minutes of this investigation, Roger Cook had his left hand in his Pocket, Why? Because in between filming this & The Badger Baiting episode, Roger was attacked by two female Badger Baiters & He got his Left Hand & 2 of his fingers Broken, OUCH!🤕

[@MrChezlor]

Loan sharks I thought they were just called banks!