UK Taxpayers Alliance Launches Debt Clock Tour

The UK’s Taxpayers Alliance (good people) have launched a national Debt Clock tour to bring attention to that country’s mounting level deficit financing.

To highlight the crushing size of the national debt, the TaxPayers’ Alliance is launching a 1,300 mile tour of Britain – featuring a 7 metre long, lorry-mounted digital Debt clock, ticking up as the Government borrows more and more money. The campaign has a simple but direct message for the nation’s politicians: “Wake up to the National Debt!”

Britain is a quasi-unitary state and it’s national debt is therefore easier to understand when contrasted with a federation like Canada, with multiple levels of roughly equally (over)sized government. None-the-less, Canada and Britain face staggeringly massive deficits that wander the same territory as they did during the Second World War.

Good luck to our chaps across the (cliché) pond with their physical version of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s DebtClock.ca.