A PENSIONER said young people need to “stop whingeing” and “work harder” to pay their mortgages like people did in the old days. Brian Meek, 76, said he and wife Rosemary, 70, put in extra hours at weekends and evenings when interest rates soared in the late 70s.
The couple barely saw each other as they juggled his long shifts in engineering and hers in the civil service around their growing family to pay for their home. Brian believes homeowners should knuckle down to get through the current interest-rate hikes.
Brian, from Plymstock, said: “We just did whatever we had to so we could keep paying our mortgage. We worked all the hours God sent – we had to.
“If you want to keep what you’ve got, you have to keep working for it. You’ve never had it so good – we had it a lot worse than it is now.
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