The real wickedness is that the government now spends more annually on servicing the INTEREST (with no capital repayments) of the national debt than it does on the WHOLE defence budget PLUS foreign & commonwealth office.
Sadly, for as long as this is the situation, any resumption to "Ops Normal" will be pie-in-the-sky.......
So much for Gordon Brown's promise to end the cycle of boom & bust and his lofty generosity to write off Third world debt! And could someone please tell me just where were the proceeds of the sale of our gold bullion reserves invested?
MB