National debt?
ON 1 December, you published ‘News from Westminster: Claire Perry’.
She wrote: “With our national debt now planned to fall every year from 2018 …”.
Ignorant! Please let this lady nowhere near the Treasury.
It is the annual deficit, not the national debt that is predicted to fall.
The national debt will continue to rise by the amount of the annual deficit and we have to pay the interest on this debt.
It is said that the interest on the national debt is greater than the whole national education budget.
When will we be maxed out on our national credit card?
Dr Mike Lockwood, Salisbury Road, Andover.
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