Billions, Schmillions!

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Billions, Schmillions!
April 13, 2018
tags: smart meters
By Paul Homewood
 

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-03-15/debates/0B80BC89-19E9-4194-9064-9334F4BAA469/BusinessEnergyAndIndustrialStrategy

 

It tells us a couple of things (apart from the fact that Jesse Norman is an idiot!):

1) When these sort of numbers trip off politicians’ tongues, it is no more than gobbledegook to them. They have no appreciation of how the sums are calculated, or what they represent.

£47 million? £47 billion? £47 trillion? Who knows? Who cares? They are just numbers on a piece of paper to them.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/billions-schmillions/