How's that for a long standing debt!
Cracking story about how the Government is paying off some of the remaining £2bn First World War Debt, plus some debt which goes back to the Napoleonic and Crimean wars!
The government is going to buy back part of the debt by redeeming bonds first issued during the First World War by Chancellor Winston Churchill 
Maybe in 90 years our great grand kids will hear how the Government has paid off the 2008 recession debt, plus a few years worth of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan 
