A brilliant video summarising how much we spend on the Iraq war, debt, the NHS and...

The video would have been better if it also included a few comparisons of say aid and trade flows, the cost of renewables policies and the cost of working-age welfare benefits but it's still very informative...

Hat tip to The Guardian.

Comments

[lola]

Well, a lot of cobblers in that, viz:-

£25Bn - Corporation tax 'avoidance' - so that's OK then?
£13Bn - to 'save' the Amazon rain forest? Eh? How do they know that?
£253Bn - To Take people out of poverty. Oh dear. That old lefty stupidity. Nonsense number.
£175Bn - Budget deficit? See next item for stupidity...
£60Bn - cuts in public services. Reconcile with the previous item please. Tossers.
£400Bn - Cost of buying assets in credit crisis - none of which was required and was done by the Worst Chancellor Ever to save his useless hide - pointlessly as it turned out - but still at our cost.

Mind you, I always reckoned that the Iraq War was Bliars attempt at a 'Falklands'. Plonker.

[christina Speight]

"Brilliant" ??? This is utterly useless - machine-gun style scattering of random unsubstantiated statistics with a video which is incomprehensible. Waste of space.

[Straus]

"£175bn UK goverment overdraft (budget deficit)" - economic illiteracy.

[anon]

And the dingbats missed out the daily cost of europe--how many MILLIONS a day is that again?

[England's green and pleasant]

To flesh out the comment by Straus above. The budget deficit is not analogous to to the UK government overdraft. It is amount by which the "UK government overdraft" increases each year. The total debt is more like a trillion pounds (or six times larger than the figure given.

[Cleethorpes Rock]

Largely useless information, apart from the obvious: the Iraq War was a huge waste of men and money.

[Vince Causey]

£1845 billion spent on the Iraq war? How did they arrive at that figure?