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Some bedtime reading from the Tax Payers Alliance concerning UK economic performance.
tomstickland
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http://tpa.typepad.com/home/files/gordon_browns_economic_failure_embargoed_00.01AM%20FRIDAY%2019%20SEPTEMBER.pdf
Page 18, debt levels.
Officially 37% of GDP, but once PFI, Nuclear decomissioning, pensions, Northern wreck and Network Rail added in it reaches 129% of GDP.
Page 18, debt levels.
Officially 37% of GDP, but once PFI, Nuclear decomissioning, pensions, Northern wreck and Network Rail added in it reaches 129% of GDP.
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tomstickland wrote: »http://tpa.typepad.com/home/files/gordon_browns_economic_failure_embargoed_00.01AM%20FRIDAY%2019%20SEPTEMBER.pdf
Page 18, debt levels.
Officially 37% of GDP, but once PFI, Nuclear decomissioning, pensions, Northern wreck and Network Rail added in it reaches 129% of GDP.
I don't know which is more frightening, that statistic or the first page of that document opening in my browser at 100%.
Good job I didn't look at it last night. I would never have slept.0 -
Yay :j and now we are building another four. :jtomstickland wrote: »Officially 37% of GDP, but once PFI, Nuclear decommissioning, pensions, Northern wreck and Network Rail added in it reaches 129% of GDP.
But, this time its different...
..........oh dear ............:rotfl: and it certainly will be, although probably for our kids. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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