“I have pity for this man..It's all too easy to criticise somebody because of what you think is right in your mind but people have been brainwashed into behaving in this manner by the banking institution's. The Credit Crisis is one example of the wider manipulation of the general public to create a financial crisis and devert trillions of taxpayer's money into the three new superbanks at the heart of the new world economy. The Northern Rock debacle is an illustration of this. Through using the apparently very clever, but now villified financial instruments thought up in the last decade to artificially expand credit through bundling up and repackaging the debt,then selling it back to the customer's. It shocks me to the core that the responce from the general public over the re-nationalization of Northern Rock and Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae in America didn't create a RED warning sign to the wider general public that the financial banking system is being re organised by the elite who now control all aspect's of are world economies. Mr. Pentelow like the vast majority of the world populus have been used as lab rats in one of the most clever and unique experiments the financial world has ever seen. The election of Obama in America Will see the biggest economic collapse by design of the Dollar and a new marked depression to destroy old economic system and replace it with a new world reserve currency. The Credit Crunch is just part of this system to discredit are financial system to the loss of us all!...”

“He has loans and credit card bills which total £45,000 and a mortgage on a house he bought for £210,000 which has dropped in value by at least £30,000.

OK, a few points here:

Who built up debts of 45k?
Who took on a 210k mortgage?
who should suffer the consequences of the above?

Not me that's for sure.

It's harsh, but hopefully Mr Pentelow will learn a lesson from this. He might be a victim of cirumstance but that's a lot of debt, he should have been more careful in his borrowing.

Sorry that's just the way I see it”

“What on earth is Martin from Perranporth wittering on about?

Migrant workers are paid the same as British nationals, and pay their taxes the same as everyone else, the differences are, they are keen to do the work, and they are keen to do the work WELL. As for the council finding them digs and accommodating them, that also is fictitious. The majority of them rent rooms in shared dwellings either arranged through their employers or privately, it has nothing to do with the council, council housing or housing associations.

Please get your facts straight before having a nonsensical rant.”

“The migrant workers are on the same pay as everyone else and they work the same hours, thats law! and the reason they are employed is because they work a lot harder and to a higher standard without the moaning that entails our culture! Its not a case of them taking all the job, its a case of them doing the jobs know one else wants to do and doing them well.

Maybe i'm wrong but there are plenty of jobs around, I have 2 friends who lost there jobs 2 weeks ago and are already in new employment. Is this man setting his sights on a job too high? There are plenty of factory vacancies around! Everyone is in the same boat, i worry more for the next generation, our children, and the hardships and toils they are going to encounter!”

“I think more help should be given to single people and not just to familes / Pensioners .
I'm a single male on benefit and cant even get a job like Mr Pentelow nor can I put my name down for a council house or even flat.
Its about time Cornwall made local business pay a good rate or pay and stopped making profits of the back of hard working locals..Most of the tourist trade owners for example hotels etc are from up country trying to make a fast buck from us down in Cornwall.
Some of the hotels down here make just as much as the hotels in London but still refuse to pay a good rate of pay.
The cost of living down here is more expense a good one is the cost of water ..So why should the south west put up with this..
Many of the hotels love the outside uk labour because they will work for peanuts and of course they afford to have low rates of pay as most don't even have to pay tax,council Tax and many live in cheap accomadation funded by local councils..funny how there are many people who english who are homeless but the local council can find accomodation for other people outside the uk..”

“With the never ending influx of cheap migrant labour, employers are not interested in local labour. They want employees who can work 24/7 for very low wages. And they are assisted in acheiving this with the willing help of the job centres who do little or nothing for local people.”

“I agree with Mr Pentelow.
Most if not all are well under paid that's if you can in deed get a job now.
In my view many more jobs would be available to local people if we did not have so many people from outside the uk flooding cornwall ..
Many of the hotels and other large catering outlets employ this cheap labour from outside the uk no wonder Peole like Mr Pentelow can't find work.
Also the job centre only seem to help people outside the uk and all help is given to them never mind us locals.During the past few weeks St Austell is filling up with ethnics etc you can't miss it...that is the problem why can't people see this..”

“It is a well known fact down here that the average wage is £15000 per annum, and that is a good wage for this area, had better research been done and a perfectly reasonable mortgage for London but Not down here been taken out things may not be so bad, I feel for the gentleman in question but we are all in the same boat and cut our cloth accordingly.”