(Bonus points if you can name the advert referenced by the title)
I’m looking for some hard data here people. Help me out! 
Apparently, the average amount households spend on mortgage+council tax per week is £67.30. That sounds like hogwash to me, so I’ve set up a poll. Feel free to share this far and wide!
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Wow, seriously?! I should get a mortgage according to this statistic, it would be a lot cheaper than renting….
It’s not clear to me exactly what that statistic includes (for some bizarre reason mortgage and council tax is counted separate from ‘housing’ – it’s not clear to me where rent fits in, for example).
But yeah, oh that this statistic were reflective of reality!
Grolsch! This blue movie is not ready! Where’s this guy’s mustache? Why is he fixing the fridge?
Bonus points are yours
I was in a play once and the lead couple had never done a stage kiss before, so whenever we rehearsed that scene, inevitably there would be a cry of “Schtop! What are you doing?”. Usually from me…
I like a good poll, so I linked to this. My rent+C tax is a multiple of £135
Ta muchly!
I was wondering whether going up to 2x the quoted figure would be enough…
Already looks like you might get two populations: Those with rents and mortgages and those owning out-right, with the mean value unrepresentitatively falling between the two.
I think you need a lesson in confidence intervals, champ.
I don’t recall seeing any confidence intervals in the ONS report, methinks there’s a few people you could be educating!
Yeah that statistic is clearly horses**t, mine comes to £120 a week rounded to nearest whole £ and I live in a crappy little 2 bed terrace in Sheffield which is not adequate for what my family needs and pay band A council tax.
The only way I can see it being accurate is if most of the country owns outright and pays Band A/B Council Tax, which is clearly rubbish. The only other thing I can think of is if benefits to council tenants means they pay effectively zero (from the actual ONS report it appears they net the figure).