THE NATIONAL DEBT

  THE NATIONAL DEBT IS CRIPLING THE UNITED KINGDOM

Take a look at the staggering national debts of £2.4 Trillion pounds, energy, food and cost of living crises. Should we perhaps consider a Moratorium. Not just the UK, the USA also seems to be up shit creek without a paddle - in fact, further along that mythical stinking watercourse at $31.4 Trillion dollars.

Quarter Debt £billions as % GDP

2020 Q2 = £2,069.3 - 94.5%
2020 Q3 = £2139.0 - 98.8%
2020 Q4 = £2,204.8 - 102.5%
2021 Q1 = £2,223.0 - 103.8%
2021 Q2 = £2,296.4 - 103.0%
2021 Q3 = £2,332.9 - 102.7%
2021 Q4 = £2,382.8 - 102.8%
2022 Q1 = £2,365.4 - 99.6%

Source: Office for National Statistics - UK government debt and deficit

UK general government gross debt was £2,365.4 billion at the end of Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2022, equivalent to 99.6% of gross domestic product (GDP). Leaving almost no reserves, taking the country to the brink in any language. Where growth is contrary to sustainable or circular economics. Simply because earth is being drained at the rate of 2.4 planets, of the ability of the world to produce. Meaning that, to start to get things under control, borrowing needs to reduce to £985 billion pounds at present GDP.

In 2022, Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are on the economy warpath, targetting anything that moves, to raise money for our bankrupt nation. That means robbing pensioners, even where their savings are already worth around half of what they were before Liz Truss really mucked up with Kwasi Kwateng, apparently batting for the rest of the world.

What of food, you may have noticed shortages in your supermarkets. The good news is humans are edible. Just ask Hannibal Lecter. Even better, history shows us that fat politicians get eaten first. All the money in the world is no good to you when the food runs out. Then, you need a bow and arrow, or sharp knives.

The British Economy is a joke based on a joke from the year before. We are trying to keep things that we do not need for the sake of tradition such as outdated concepts like Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier, Trident missiles and more Astute class Nuclear Submarines. Have they not heard of robotics, drones and satellites?

And what about importing energy that we cannot afford. Have they not heard about solar & wind farms and electric vehicles?

Mainstream media headlines today are focused on Britain's record national debt, which just surpassed £1 trillion, a figure that can only exponentially increase unless the entire mechanism of Government finance is overhauled. The truth however is much worse, factoring in all liabilities including state and public sector pensions, the real national debt is closer to £4.8 trillion, some £78,000 for every person in the UK.

VOID CONTRACTS

But that is a contract that the electorate would never have agreed to. That is not what the people voted for. Election campaigns were mostly fraudulent. The Conservatives knew that, and still got themselves installed, mainly to milk the system, obtain consultancy payments, get paid large sums for making speeches - then make a quick getaway and pass the buck onto the next Parliament.

We think that Members of Parliament should be banned from accepting money for speech making, even post position. Likewise, Consultancy payments. Overseas transactions and declarations should be constantly monitored to check for fraud and inconsistencies with conflicts of interest.

Prime Minister Theresa May claims: that the Conservatives had, over the past seven years, cut the nation's deficit as a share of GDP by almost three-quarters.

Reality Check verdict: The amount being borrowed each year has been reduced from 9.9% of GDP when the coalition government took power in 2010 to 2.6% of GDP in 2016 under the Conservative government, a reduction of almost three-quarters. But while the amount being borrowed each year has been falling, the overall debt is still rising.

The UK was hit by recession in 2008 following the financial crisis, and to cover its outgoings the government had to borrow a record £154bn in 2009.

By the time the coalition took over in 2010 that had fallen slightly to £144bn, equivalent to 9.9% of GDP.

The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced an austerity package of tax rises and swingeing spending cuts in his June 2010 budget.

He vowed to balance Britain's books within five years - a promise that was to cause him a lot of trouble.

While the deficit did fall by almost half by 2015, it was still nearly £80bn for the year.

Philip Hammond took over as chancellor in 2016 and has seen the deficit fall further.

For the financial year to the end of March 2017, the deficit was £52bn or 2.6% of GDP.

Mr Hammond has not set a hard deadline for when that will be reduced to zero. Instead, in their 2017 manifesto, the Conservatives pledged to eliminate the deficit by the "middle of the next decade".

DEBT STATISTICS JUNE 2012

According to the Office for National Statistics (which is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, which reports directly to Parliament), the United Kingdom had a gross debt of:

£1,139,880,000,000 

(note: This roughly translates into 1.4375 trillion Euros, or about $1.8 trillion dollars USD.

This 1.139 trillion pound figure represents 46% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the United Kingdom.

As of June 2012, the United Kingdom had a total of 62,641,000 residents, meaning that the average citizen of the UK owes approximately:

£18,197

This works out to about 28,808 USD owed per person in the United Kingdom.

Comparatively speaking, the average US citizen owes $52,500 as their share of the US national debt.

Who does the UK government (and by extension, the citizens of the United Kingdom) owe all of this money to?

Good question - to find the answer, let's look to the Quarterly Review that is published by the UK Debt Management Office (DMO):


Bank of England (Asset Purchase Facility): £319,138,000,000
Insurance Companies and Pension Funds: £286,493,000,000
Overseas Investors: £380,342,000,000
Other Financial Institutions and Other: £90,496,000,000
Monetary Financial Institutions: £115,832,000,000
Households: £46,027,000,000
Local Authorities and Public Corporations: £2,242,000,000

THE DMO

Our debt situation is so bad that we have to have a Debt Management Office.

The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) was established on 1 April 1998 and responsibility for government wholesale sterling debt issuance was transferred from the Bank of England to the DMO. This re-organisation followed the transfer of operational responsibility for setting official UK interest rates from HM Treasury to the Bank of England in May 1997. The DMO's remit is to carry out the Government's debt management policy of minimising financing costs over the long term, taking account of risk, and to minimise the cost of offsetting the Government's net cash flows over time, while operating in a risk appetite approved by Ministers in both cases.

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