The government is bankrupt and has been for twenty years. Not visibly, not officially, but functionally. The debt is £2.87 trillion. The interest alone is £100 billion a year. The only number that stops the bond market pulling the plug on Britain overnight is the debt-to-GDP ratio staying below 100%. To keep that ratio stable you need the GDP number to keep growing. The fastest way to grow GDP is to add bodies. Not productive bodies necessarily. Just bodies. Because even an immigrant sitting in a hotel in Rochdale eating a meal the government paid for with borrowed money gets counted as economic activity. The hotel revenue goes into GDP. The food supplier revenue goes into GDP. The borrowed pound that funded all of it gets quietly added to the £2.87 trillion and the ratio stays at 96% instead of 101% and the bond market stays calm for another quarter and the Chancellor keeps his job. That is the entire mechanism. The housing crisis, the dissolved infrastructure, the unrecognisable high streets, your children who cannot afford homes, the pensioners choosing between heating and eating.... these are not accidental side effects of a well-meaning policy that went wrong. They are the acceptable collateral damage of a decision made by people who needed the GDP number to stay up long enough to retire comfortably before the whole thing becomes undeniable. The reason nobody in Westminster will explain this is that the explanation ends with a question they cannot answer. If the debt is the problem, who accumulated it, who profits from the interest, and why are the people who had no say in accumulating it the ones being asked to pay for it with their country. So instead they call it diversity and tell you that noticing is racism.