{"id":1116,"date":"2015-05-03T18:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2015-05-03T18:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:52:18","slug":"uk-election-the-uk-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"UK Election: The UK Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has a structural debt. The current general election campaign is not talking about hard figures.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reality. In 2015\/16 the UK will borrow nearly \u00a380 billion pounds and pay in interest on the total UK National Debt the grand total of \u00a346 billion pounds.<\/p>\n<p>That interest payments adds zero value or benefit to the economy, it is the creditors to the UK Government who get the benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has a structural debt. The current general election campaign is not talking about hard figures. This is the reality. In 2015\/16 the UK will borrow nearly \u00a380 billion pounds and pay in interest on the total UK National Debt the grand total of \u00a346 billion pounds. That interest payments adds zero value or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}