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£1,216,000,000,000.
UK Debt.
OK all we need is Growth - more jobs - build more houses and......
Indeed, most of the time, the swallowing up of yet another great British institution barely makes a headline.
- Jaguar Rover (to India),
- Asda (to the U.S.),
- MG Rover (to China),
- P&O Ports (to Dubai),
- the British Airports Authority (to Spain),
- Corus (formerly British Steel, to India),
- British Energy (to France), and
- lottery operator Camelot (to Canada).
- That bus you boarded at Trafalgar Square is run by a German company.
- Boots fell to the Italians in 2007.
- Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason and the Savoy are owned by Canadians;
- Harrods has been bought by a firm based in Qatar;
- the Dorchester by one based in Brunei.
- As for our airports, most of them are now run by a Spanish firm.
So having "sold all the family silver" and our finest brains drained away to better climes... who is now going to set the ball rolling to prosperity...Think again!
Last year, 207,000 British citizens - one every three minutes - left the country
Surveys indicate that another one million are set to pack their bags for good over the next five years and a further 500,000 live abroad for part of the year.
Surveys indicate that another one million are set to pack their bags for good over the next five years and a further 500,000 live abroad for part of the year.
More than 50 per cent of the British emigrants moved to just four countries in 2006 - Australia, New Zealand, France and Spain. Eight in every 100 went to the USA.
The ONS said that overall last year there were 591,000 immigrants to the UK and 400,000 emigrants, both the highest figures ever recorded.
Perhaps from our multicultural melting pot will spurt a cast iron solution to One Trillion Pounds of Debt - Ha!
