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So the UK's 10-year gilt yield - the cost of government borrowing - is now up at 2008 levels.
An 18-year high
The difference is that, back then, UK national debt was 48pc of GDP, and now it's the best part of 100pc.
So the debt service costs are much MUCH heavier.
Of the £14.3bn the UK government borrowed in February alone, no less than £13bn of that was spent on interest on existing debts - a situation which is not only unsustainable, but very close to provoking a disastrous financial collapse.
Yet still, our national discourse is all about more spending, more borrowing, more "state intervention".
When is the Labour party – and much of the listless, unthinking rump of the UK's political and media class – going to start acknowledging reality?
WHEN ....?
@jamiesont Are you aware how time works? My post was 17 hours ago. After 12 days of BBC mostly ignoring story. And they JUST finally set up a breaking news.
You don't have to say "I disagreed with him on some things". No-one agrees with everyone on everything. It's a pointless statement that just distances you from your own humanity.
I have no words. I don't understand how to live in a world where someone would take a father away from his young children for having a different opinion.
I'm following this far-right account, some guy called "Keir Starmer". Pretty hardcore anti-migrant rhetoric, might be too much for some people. Imagine if someone like this was Prime Minister!
“Do you want to have lots of free stuff paid for by people you envy” is a question sadly likely to produce a positive response. The correct question is “do you want to screw the economy to buy the NHS a six month stay of execution?”
Fabian Henry raped a 17-year-old girl whilst on bail for abducting a 15-year-old girl he’d groomed since she was 14.
When the previous Government tried to deport him to Jamaica, Labour MPs signed a letter to stop his flight. He wasn’t deported.
Keir Starmer signed that letter.
Incredible to think that in 1914 the price of gold was £4.25 per ounce. It was £4.25 in 1930 too. And in 1716 when Isaac Newton set the price 200 years earlier.
FOUR POUNDS 25p
Today it's £2,475 per ounce.
From £4.25 to £2,475. That's how much we've been robbed
Britain has spent billions on counterterror landscaping, ‘defensive street furniture’, ballistic glass and so on. ONE city block in Westminster cost at least £35 million to fortify. Read my book The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century. They’re walls, Sadiq, just hiding in plain sight.
If there's no "two-tier policing", why is a mother jailed for 31 months for a tweet, while Labour politician Ricky Jones is walking the streets after screaming at a crowd of leftists and Islamists to ‘cut the throats of the far-Right’ (a dog-whistle for British people furious that children were killed)?
In prison, I had to pay a dollar for a hug.
My wife visited me every week for years, and I would buy photo tickets for us for $1 each. We didn't need the photos. We had plenty. I just bought the tickets for the hugs. This stack is a small fraction of all the photos we took.