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Britain nearly went bust in March, says Bank of England (theguardian.com)
8 points by jxub on June 23, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Given Britain can't go bust as a matter of accounting given it has its own currency I expected to find an article explaining why the characters suggesting this are lying.

No such luck.

The Bank of England will alway fund the UK government because the UK government owns the Bank of England. If Bailey had refused he would have been sacked.

HM Treasury has those powers under section 19(1) of the Bank of England Act 1998.


Interesting how Italy almost went bust for the reason you mention, if the ECB wouldn't have stepped in (potentially illegally, which we might find out in the future), we would have had a eurozone crises.

But of course the guardian never misses a chance to make a conservative government look bad, despite any other government having done the same.


Is it because ECU is not Italian money but pound is. UK can go bust on, say, foreign debt. Or UK government can go bust. But UK in pounds?




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