Ok, as this is called the Reality Check.... here is one to start the ball rolling.

Take a look at the UK debt clock. Go on.... Google it, if you dare.... I dare you!

To save you a moment it is £800 billion. Now, we are not used to thinking in terms of a billion so we just tend to think that it is a big number and a million is a big number so it must be bigger than that. Well, as we evolved over the plains and grasslands we didn't have to think in terms of billions, or even millions or even hundreds of thousands or perhaps even thousands. So our brains are not made to cope with large numbers (and given that most people cant cope with maths, including checking change, I doubt we can even deal with small numbers very well either).

To give you a feel.. if there was such a thing as a £1000 note then a million pounds would be a pile about 8 inches high. So, what about a billion? If you guessed without working it out, in all likelihood you would underestimate by a hugh margin. The answer is that £1billion would be a pile of £1000 notes 800 feet high! (a trillion is about 45miles high).

So.... the UK Government debt is 800 columns of 800 feet piles of £1000 notes. Or one pile 640,000 feet high.

Oh.... and for those of you who think any different, the Government don't earn any money, they take it from taxpayers, from you and me. So that big pile of money the Government owe.... you and I owe a part of it, and so do your children (even if they are not born yet).

That is a reality most people would rather not think about.......