How come....

[_V_]

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...l-billions-to-buy-UK-commercial-property.html


Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

 

[DaveB]

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...l-billions-to-buy-UK-commercial-property.html


Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

To paraphrase Lord Blackadder :

"Found it, pinched it, spent it."

 

[Mich the Tester]

The Norges Bank is not directly run by the government, but by the King, the bank’s governors and a council of ministers. If the government want to spend loads of the cash on nonsense policies, the King and the governors can tell them where to shove their pipe dreams.

 

[Rantor]

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...l-billions-to-buy-UK-commercial-property.html


Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

Mass deindustrialisation ---> Unemployment Benefits + Long Term Sickness Benfits

Class warfare don't come cheap.

 

[NotAllThere]

Plus, there are only 23 Norwegians, and the UK has 300,000,000 inhabitants.

 

[Mich the Tester]

Plus, there are only 23 Norwegians...

You've forgotten their dogs. They have sled dogs; whole teams of them.

 

[thelace]

Dog's don't take much feeding, we all know they'll eat their own tulip....

 

[scooterscot]

....Norway has £240bn of hard cash it can't wait to spend as surplus from "oil and gas" when the UK is £5trn in debt and it too once had oil, gas and coal reserves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...l-billions-to-buy-UK-commercial-property.html


Could it be our government wasted the wealth of a nation and theirs invested it?

Don't even get me started.