There seems to be much huffing and puffing at today's announcement that the amount of consumer debt in Great Britain has, for the first time topped £1 trillion - this being £1 followed by an awful lot of zeros! Apparently this approximates to somewhere in the region of £17,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND? I wish, if only my mortgage alone was anywhere near that low, a happy man I'd be...