I said as much a while back either here or elsewhere, given that the BOE suddenly decided to tell us about the secret money that was loaned last year , who is to say they secretly did other things and they have yet to tell us if at all, wonder if someone was going to blow the whistle on this, so damage limitation to get it out now before the election. We are in the "Thick of It" now spin city here we come
I have done a lot of reading in regards to this, the UK is the only country to pay back it war time debts.
Once all the gold that the UK had at the time was sold, once all the (and I may be a bit rusty on this bit) the stocks and shares that UK citizens held in the banks had been sold for dollars( the equivalent value was replaced by sterling) without the knowledge of the owners, for the lend lease facility with the US. So on top of the debt run up after the war for reconstruction, the country was potless once it paid for all the guns , ships etc it needed during WW2 if added together it makes a eye watering amount, so you saw one empire that had built up its wealth by taking over countries, paying back money to the emerging empire that was the US, thats why the US economy grew massively after the last depression.
That is not withstanding the debt ran up during WW1.
Reading about WW1 there are numerous view points as to why it started, the Arch Bish Ferdinand getting assassinated, or a squabble between the Royal cousins of Russia, Germany and the UK, anyway something the normal person neither knew about or cared about, that dragged us into WW1, was the cause in my opinion of WW2 and then onto the cold war.
So is it all about empire building ? are there unseen forces behind the scenes pulling the strings ? did it just happen ?
Given the above, I see similarities with what is happening in the middle east, almost like they are spoiling for a war, is this their magic bullet to get rid of the debt that has been run up
and it will happen again, the Tories want to privatise the water, and the south needs the Hydro Electric . A quick google about says that there are approx 24million households in England/Wales, and approx 3million in Scotland. At present the UK generates enough electricity but most of it is produced using gas or oil and then Nuclear. The Glendoe scheme is just finished although they are dealing with a tunnel collapse, but it can generate enough for 25,000 houses, another one announced by SSE is estimated to when built produce 6 times as much, and that does not account for the many hydro schemes that have been generating since the fifties.
Scotland can be 100% carbon neutral for electricity, but I can guarantee that Westminster has already cast its eyes northwards to the energy cow that Scotland is, that is the real reason it wants it in the Union nothing else.
Right off to read more about micro Hydro Schemes, it helps living right next to Loch Ness :)