With the general stagnation in the housing market, it also wasn't easy to unload property. The result of rolling debt over into more debt, according to statistics in The Economist, has been that the banks, in the capacity of the creditor, repossessed more than 80,000 homes in 1991, and the new poor are filling the streets.
債上滾債的結果，根據「經濟學人」雜誌的統計，英國銀行以債權人身分收回的房屋，從九一到九二年間已超過八萬戶。