CAMPAIGNERS drove a national debt calculator into Market Place as part of an awareness roadshow.
The TaxPayers’ Alliance visited sites in Hampshire and Wiltshire on Friday, September 13, as part of a roadshow raising awareness of the UK’s national debt.
This debt is increasing by £4,410 per second or £380 million per day, according to campaigners.
John Glen MP, shadow paymaster general, joined the campaigners and said: “It’s fantastic to have the TPA here in Salisbury to highlight the challenges that the government are not dealing with in terms of the national debt.”
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A digital van displaying the national debt visited Salisbury, Southampton, Winchester, Emsworth and Godalming during the day.
The previous roadshow, on September 6, saw the group visit Royal Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge, Orpington, Sevenoaks and Purley.
The UK’s national debt is now approaching £2.6 trillion, with debt interest alone costing over £100 billion per year.
A House of Lords report published this week warned that the national debt could become “unsustainable.”
William Yarwood, media campaign manager of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers in Salisbury will be horrified by the escalating national debt.
“With growing warnings that the national debt may soon be unsustainable, there is rightly fury from residents that successive governments have allowed the situation to spiral out of control.
“Rachel Reeves needs to urgently get a grip on the public finances at the upcoming budget.”
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