Well darlings,
Bah! Humbug! It's that time of year again - it's Christmas! This is the time when it seems everybody must spread their cheer. As we fight our way through the throngs of shoppers pushing, shoving, standing on each other's toes and fighting tooth and nail for the very last item on the shelf to the strains of Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody, a sound amplified to distortion as it attempts to squeeze out of the store's 'not made for this' speakers for the umpteenth time, and we thrust forward our hot and now positively drooping credit cards in an attempt to secure yet another present that should we not get it the world would end - we are reminded by Datamonitor that Britons are the most indebted consumers in Europe.
We are not up to our eyes in debt - we've long passed that stage for now apparently we cannot even see that our recent outstanding unsecured debt has, on average, soared by a staggering 41%. Where people in Italy, again on average, owe just