The Debt Clock tour will be visiting locations in all regions of Great Britain.
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The TaxPayers’ Alliance Debt Clock is launching its 1,300 mile tour of the UK in London. It will begin its 7 hour journey around the capital on the Southbank at 6am and carry on through Westminster and the City, finishing at the O2 (Millenium Dome) at 1pm.
The Debt Clock will be appearing at the following locations:
A map of the route is available here
On Tuesday the Debt Clock comes to Oxford, and will be stopping in the city to raise awareness of the national debt amongst taxpayers and politicians in Oxfordshire.
The Debt Clock will be at Gloucester Green from 9am to 10:30am.
Oxford is famous for its world class university, and it is sobering to think that at the end of 2008-09, students owed a total of £25.96 billion in debts to the Student Loan Company. That entire debt, built up over a number of years, is equivalent to just 8 weeks and 2 days of government borrowing at the current rate of just under half a billion a day.
On Wednesday, the Debt Clock is visiting Bristol. It will be at Centre Promenade/Broad Quay, Bristol, BS1 4DJ from 9.00am to 10.30am.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge cost £9.6m in today’s money to build. That means you could build a new Clifton Suspension Bridge using just 31 minutes of the Government’s new borrowing this year. Alternatively, if you used the whole national debt (£776.6 billion) you could afford to build a new version of the Clifton Suspension Bridge 33,490,874 km long.
On Thursday, the Debt Clock will be arriving in Cardiff. It will be at Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff, CF10 4PH from 9.00am to 10.30am.
The Welsh Assembly receives a budget of £15.7 billion a year to cover the running of devolved government. The British Government borrows that amount every 35 days. To put it another way you could run 10 Welsh Assembly Governments with the money that Westminster is borrowing every year.
The Assembly building cost £67 million - but the UK government borrows that much every three and a half hours.
On Friday, the Debt Clock will be visiting Birmingham. It will be at Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EP from 9.00am to 11.00am.
Birmingham's share (based on its population) of the debt this country is going to be facing by 2015 is in the order of £23.1 billion.
The Bull Ring rebuild cost an estimated £800 million, the British government adds to our national debt by borrowing that amount in just under two days.
On Monday, the Debt Clock will be touring Manchester, between 9:00am and 10:30am.
Old Trafford has more than 68,000 seats. If you were to pack the place to capacity, each spectator could become a millionaire with just five and a half months of new debt.
Manchester United’s huge debt, run up by the Glazers, is now £716.6m The Government currently borrows that much every 1 day, 14 hours and 30 minutes.
Britain's debt is estimated to reach £1406 billion (that's £1.4 trillion) by 2015. Based on population, Manchester's share of this (the city of Manchester, not Greater Manchester) will be close to £8.9 billion.
On Tuesday, the Debt Clock will be visiting Edinburgh. It will be at Castle Street, Edinburgh, EH2 3AT from 9.00am to 10.30am.
The Scottish Parliament receives a budget of £34.8 billion a year to cover the running of devolved government. The British Government borrows that amount every 78 days.
If Scotland votes for independence, its share of the national debt (based on population) in 2015 would be £122 billion.
On Wednesday, the Debt Clock will be visiting Newcastle. It will be at 65 Quayside, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 3DE from 9.00am to 11.00am.
The Angel of the North cost £1m to construct. The Government borrows that much every 3 minutes and 12 seconds.
Even an Angel built of silver, costing £97m, is only equivalent to 5 hours and 12 minutes of Government borrowing.
This year, the Government will borrow £163 billion. That would be enough to buy 1,680 silver Angels of the North - enough to fill every seat in the Sage.
On Thursday, the Debt Clock will be visiting Hull. It will be at Queen's Gardens (by the BBC), Queen's Dock Avenue, Hull, HU1 3DR from 7.30am to 10.00am.
If the 27,500 tonnes of steel that the Humber Bridge is made from were replaced with silver, the metal would cost £13.3 billion. The UK is currently borrowing more than that every month.
The Humber Bridge has a debt of over £300 million. That could be paid off with what the Government borrows each day.
It cost about £44 million to build the KC Stadium. The Government is borrowing that every 2hours and 20minutes (so you could build 10 KC Stadiums with what is borrowed each day).
Hull's share of the national debt will be £5.1 billion by 2015.
On Friday, the Debt Clock will be touring Peterborough.
The Peterborough Millenium Green Wheel is a 50 mile network of cycle lanes, footpaths and bridleways. Putting it together cost £11 million. That is under 40 minutes of current government borrowing.
Last year, Peterborough City Council spent £154.6 million. That is equivalent to less than eight and a half hours of government borrowing.It costs £1.3 million a year to maintain Peterborough Cathedral. That is equivalent to less than five minutes of government borrowing.
On Monday, the Debt Clock will be visiting Norwich. It will be at The Forum, 2 Millennium Plain, Bethel Street, NR2 1TF from 9:00am to 11:00am
The foundation stone of Norwich Cathedral was laid in 1096 (914 years ago). By 2014 the national debt is expected to be £1.4 trillion.
That's the equivalent of borrowing around £4million a day over 900 years since the Cathedral's creation.
