UK Debt interest will be 70bn within 5 years

[Dr Strangelove]

guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jun/07/cuts-change-british-way-of-life-david-cameron (sorry it's not a hyperlink, don't have enough posts yet)

Seriously, how is this even possible?

[durhamleft]

It's impressive I must say, though I don't think cutting now helps anyone.

[pdcrofts]

It's amazing how they make this out to be a problem caused by bloated public services, when really all the debt was created by the banks. They just took the banks' massive losses and transferred them to the public sector, but they're hoping we'll forget that.