Tabby wrote:

Amusing maybe, but with 20 million thrown out of work the economy
would fall apart. You might also find it hard getting political
support for a proposal to pay them £2000 billion. Indeed you might
find it impossible to get that much money at any cost.

Ahem. £20,000 billion (the way we currently calculate billion). Either way,
that's roughly 20 years' GDP, so yes it would be impossible to find the
money.