Edwina Currie Says "Just Go Bankrupt"

Edwina Currie, a former politician was on BBC5 Live yesterday to tell people "Just go Bankrupt". Mrs Currie went on to say, you've "lived a very good life indeed" and that was why the caller was in debt.

Edwina was invited onto the show because she believed people were no starving in the UK because of the austerity cuts. The author and broadcaster clashed with Hayley Sanderson after the young mother claimed to regularly go hungry to feed her children.

Mrs Currie suggested that by living a life which was too good was to blame for being in debt. 'When the money was coming in, this sounds like there were two salaries coming in, and no savings, and life was being lived to the full and a very good life indeed,' said former junior health secretary Mrs Currie in a Radio 5 Live phone-in yesterday.

'But when that’s no longer the case, when there’s no longer money coming in, you have to evaluate whether you are going to be able to get back to the good life quickly or not. In which case, you are going to have to think about maybe declaring yourselves bankrupt.'

The young mother was then reduced to tears when she told Mrs Currie she had no credit cards, catalogue debts or satellite television, hit back.

'Edwina, I’ve never lived life to the full. I don’t go out every weekend. You’ve really upset me,' she said, bursting into tear.

'We don’t buy clothes on a weekly basis. We’ve never lived life to the full.

'I never said I’ve borrowed money from anywhere. I’m paying off old bills like council tax.'

Mrs Currie, who was a Northfield councillor from 1975 to 1986 and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing last year, had also probed Ms Sanderson on whether she had any pets.

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Mrs Currie went on to say "I hate to say this but you need to go Bankrupt". Huh?!!

That's crazy to provide this advice without a complete income and expenditure and evaluating a person's situation. The austerity cuts mean people struggle to survive and weathy, ignorant people like Edwina who are completely out of touch should not be invited onto radio programmes for subjects as sensitive as this.