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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
If you look at most sources, they give roughly the same figures, so I'd say it was fairly accurate. Here's another one that shows the debt was £512.4 billion back in January, which fits in fairly well with what the "debt clock" shows:
UK National Debt — Economics Blog
but the worrying thing is that the government aren't giving us the full picture - if you add public sector pension liabilities, PFI's etc, it's over £1000 billion! 
Sorry for thread wander.  |
So much for the Iron Chancellor, this debt hasn't sprung up over the last 12 months, Godies fingerprints are all over this too