Britains Trillion Pound Horror - Channel 4

[TykeMerc]

Anyone else watching this?

Ok it's a bit sensationalist and bits and bobs of it are probably a bit daft, but by thunder much of it is food for thought.

[gingerjedi]

Britain's trillion pound horror story

Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story - Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story - Channel 4

This should be mandatory viewing, how can anyone justify the size of our state?

[gingerjedi]

Anyone else watching this?

Ok it's a bit sensationalist and bits and bobs of it are probably a bit daft, but by thunder much of it is food for thought.

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ror-story.html

[TykeMerc]

Hahah, snap, posted the same topic in the same minute.

Interesting programme.

[TykeMerc]

Both topics posted at 22:17

[kandr]

Whats the gist of it, we are fecked, doomed, etc?

Going to watch Question Time so missing it.

[TykeMerc]

£4.3 Trillion is the UK national debt.
Over 50% of the economy is Public so contributes nothing to economic activity.
High taxation squashes economic activity and growth.
Benefits payout exceed the total Income Tax take.
Benefits model is entirely wrong.

Britain has been described as having an economy that's "Clinically Obese".

Well worth watching.

[gingerjedi]

Whats the gist of it, we are fecked, doomed, etc?

Going to watch Question Time so missing it.

The public sector is too big and the tax it takes has suffocated the life out of our private sector economy.

[MarillionFan]

Watching now.

Brilliant

[Doggy Styles]

I thought we discussed this a couple of years ago. Although it was only 3.5 trillion then.