At the risk of being seen to be promoting the 'Jet Blast' discussion about lend lease, I do not for one minute accept that the UK's current economic woes arise from war reparations. To put the cost of the war in context (some $1.3 trillion in current money) the impact on the UK of the Global Financial Crisis a decade ago was, in 2010, assessed at up to £7.4 trillion in lost growth by the Bank of England.
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