A very public sociologist writes:
Payday loans have become something of a sexy political topic.
Stella Creasy has done a great deal of work to get it in the spotlight and Ed Miliband kicked off Labour's local election campaign with a pledge to give councils the power to push payday lenders (and bookies) off the high street.
Like the SWP, I'm always happy to clamber aboard a passing bandwagon and, to this end, I invited Carl Packman to come and speak to Stoke-on-Trent Central Labour Party's meeting on Friday night. As readers may be aware, Carl has become the 'go-to' man for payday loan comment and recently had his Sky News debut cut short by the expiration of Margaret Thatcher.
To read the rest of the blog, click below:
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/against-legal-loan-sharking.html
For more about Carl Packman's book Loan Sharks, click here.