when postcount turns to politics

[ChrisG]

<!--quoteo(post=9066:date=Fri 23rd Jun 2006, 05:17 PM:name=bondy)-->QUOTE(bondy @ Fri 23rd Jun 2006, 05:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I don't think we're bankrupt because of the royal family it's becuase we've been in dept with the USA since WW2. Churchill went over there and promised them the earth so they would give us supplies & armourment to keep Britain going once the rest of Europe had fallen. We've been paying them back ever since (money & technology).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

So who do the Americans owe money to? Thier national debt is $8.3 million million, compared to our measly £500 million ($900m). It seems all coutries have a national debt, but who's the money lenders? Industry?


<!--quoteo(post=9078:date=Fri 23rd Jun 2006, 07:10 PM:name=stu)-->QUOTE(stu @ Fri 23rd Jun 2006, 07:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Interesting point that. Wasn't the war fought to avoid being occupied... but isn't there a foreign army in East Anglia still ?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Well to be fair there's a german on the throne who's married to a greek, the patron saint was turkish, most of the government are scottish, and all the pubs seem to be run by Australians. Though to be fair to the Scots, they and the Irish are about as close as you can get to being British as most of us English are descended from saxons, normans, romans or anyone else who felt like invading in the last few thousand years.