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Old 3rd Oct 2022, 18:21
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Originally Posted by petit plateau
The UK's 2020/21 defence budget is about £42bn.

"On Wednesday, the Bank of England was forced to take emergency action to halt a run on pension funds by setting aside £65bn to buy bonds."

Go figure.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk...ings/cbp-8175/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-tory-collapse
Setting aside? It’s the Bank of England! That £65 billion wasn’t existing funds or tax payers money, it was newly printed money.
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