Kinda shocking facts about Britian’s government. There’s a cool pic if you follow the link too.
Britain – even more than the US, I think, which is going to be rescued by the values of the Tea Party movement – is en route to disaster. The share of our economy taken up by the government (ie the public sector) is now 53 per cent; in Communist China the figure is 25 per cent. Even at the peak of the Soviet Union the figure was only 70 per cent. At the height of Britain’s economic power in the Victorian era, the figure was 10 per cent.