I received this interesting email from an associate of mine (Mike Burdett), of the assumption is that our darling Chancellor can actually count!
Our beloved Chancellor has just announced our national debt will reach GBP 1.3 Trillion in 4 years and I wanted to get my brain round that enormous number. So I did a quick calculation and asked myself when he would have had to start counting the money, if he could count GBP 1 per second, 24 X 7.
To count 1 million he would have to have started 11 days, 13 hours and 46 seconds ago.
To count 1 billion, the start would have been 31 years, 9 months, 8 days, 1 hour and 46 seconds ago.
To count 1 trillion, he would have to have started around 30,000 BC - rather appropriately, Neanderthal man would have been there to help him.
And for our 1.3 trillion, the count would be around 41,275 years.
Frightening isn't it!
Phil
