{"id":282525,"date":"2025-11-25T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282525\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:30:08","slug":"labour-mp-uses-custard-creams-to-explain-uk-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/282525\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP Uses Custard Creams To Explain UK Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Labour<\/a> MP has gone viral on social media<\/a> after making a video in which he uses biscuits to explain the UK\u2019s ballooning national debt.<\/p>\n

Gordon McKee\u2019s clip has so far been watched 1.5 million times on X and won praise for its humour and originality.<\/p>\n

The Glasgow South MP uses towers of custard creams and chocolate bourbons to explain how deep in the red the government is.<\/p>\n

Sitting at a table with a bookshelf behind him, McKee says: \u201cThere\u2019s a reason Britain feels broke, and it\u2019s probably not what you think. I\u2019m going to explain, but first of all you need to understand one thing: it\u2019s called debt-to-GDP ratio. It sounds boring, it kind of is boring, but it\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holding a chocolate bourbon in one hand to represent the UK\u2019s debt and a custard cream representing how rich the country is, the MP goes on: \u201cWhen I was born in 1994 it was about 30%. In other words, for every pound the country made the government owed 30p in debt, and it stayed that way until around 2008, when the banks ran out of money and we had to bail them out.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the debt then jumps to around 60%. Over the next 10 years of Tory government, it rises to about 80%. Then some guy eats a bat in Wuhan and now nobody can go to work, so the government has to borrow even more money. And today, Britain\u2019s debt-to-GDP ration is about 100%. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut the weirdest thing is that\u2019s not even the main problem because in France the debt-to-GDP ratio is 113%, in America it\u2019s 120%, Japan\u2019s 240%.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s really mad is Britain is paying more interest on its debt than any of these countries because the people lending money to the government aren\u2019t just looking at the total amount of debt, but how quickly it\u2019s racking up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink of it like this: Japan is your mate who\u2019s always in his overdraft, America\u2019s the guy who spends a lot but always shows up to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cBritain was the sensible one, but we\u2019ve bought a dog, a new car and a hair transplant all in the one month. We\u2019ve pretended that we\u2019ve had a big pay increase, but in reality we\u2019ve just got a credit card with a lot of debt.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the people who lend the government money are starting to charge a lot more for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now in the crazy position where 8% of all of the money the government spends is just servicing debt. That\u2019s more than double the entire defence budget, and if you\u2019re spending more servicing your debt than you are defending your country, that is not good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MP than invites viewers to follow his X account to see part two of his video setting out how he thinks the government can get out of this mess.<\/p>\n

McKee\u2019s video has won widespread praise on X.<\/p>\n

Gordon was the first MP to hire a \u201ccontent creator,\u201d and there were eyebrows raised about how that role would work and what the impact would be. It seems like the answer is below, and now I want a biscuit https:\/\/t.co\/X1wnVEoXKo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bethany Dawson (@bethanymrd) November 24, 2025<\/a>