Originally Posted by
Evalu8ter
Where does it go?
£159 Billion on pensions
£146 Billion on health care
£112 Billion on social security
£86 Billion on education
£52 Billion on debt interest
£47 Billion on Defence
etc etc (figures for FY18, including central and local govt funding sourced from ukpublicspending website)
How much is enough? Are prepared to add to the debt mountain by putting our heads in the sand for another 5 years or do we confront it head on and treat the public like adults over what is, and what is not, affordable in the future? Impossible to have a reasonable debate with the weaponisation of the NHS and blanket opposition to discussion on Welfare / immigration with Labour. Blair asked Frank Field to "think the unthinkable" which he did - and got sacked for his trouble as his conclusions were not vote-winning....
Rewind to 1980 and the UK was spending about the same on health, education and defence