If you have a few quid in the bank you may be wondering what to spend it on. Maybe fast cars, a couple of houses and a fancy holiday but how about i try and tempt you with buying your own country and a snip at £8 trillion.
For some reason the Government's Office for National Statistics have worked out what Great Britain and Northern Ireland and everything in it would cost if it was put on the market and have arrived at a figure of £8,063,000,000,000 or 2,330 trillion pints of beer or 13,438 trillion Mars bars but why would you do that when you can own the home of some great football Teams (and Tottenham) and some amazing bands (and the Spice Girls).
The 25 million residential dwellings makes up the lion's share of price tag along with all other buildings such as the 1,257 Hospitals and 141 prisons along with 3,211 bridges and 262,300 miles of road.
As the Worlds sixth largest economy (we were fifth until a little while ago) and with GDP of around £3 trillion, Britain may be a rainy, windswept island off the coast of mainland Europe but we are on the border of the World's largest Single Market, no in it you might notice, on the border with it but for your £8 trillion you don't get one country but four, England, Scotland, Wales and the top bit of Ireland as well as a few odds and sods dotted around the globe such as the Falkland Islands 8,000 miles away off the coast of Argentina.
We have a rich history as you can see in our museums and have a fine tradition of invention, many of the Worlds inventions originated in Britain such as the Television, Steam Engine, World Wide Web and Hovercrafts as well as being the proud inventors of Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan, obviously we are more prouder of some than others but when you rule over a quarter of the Planet, you will get some turn out not as you hoped.
We got rid of all our dangerous animals a long time ago so the most dangerous beast we have is a hedgehog, we have decent teabags, drive on the left, have shows like QI, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Downton Abbey and usually something with Stephen Fry presenting it, have an awful Royal family which will give you years of fun and beaches which are available on the three Sunny days we get each year.
The only drawback i can think of is Piers Morgan is still here but his show is now on TalkTV and that's tucked away at the end of the listing before you get into the foreign language channels so you won't even accidentally fall across him so come on rich people, dig deep and 65 million Brits will raise a mug of tea to you.
Monday, 13 February 2023
If You Are Wondering What To Spend That £8 Trillion On...
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