I mean I think the extent to which we're going to be paying for this is wildly overstating. We only finished paying off the £20m we borrowed to reimburse slaveowners in 1830 and there's no reason not to pay this debt off at a similarly slow, if not slower pace. https://twitter.com/JonathanHaynes/status/1260177505694167041

A longer bit on this: the thing that should worry everyone, young and old, is the highly uncertain and challenging path back to economic growth, not the debt: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2020/05/its-getting-growth-not-paying-debt-will-be-difficult-after-covid-19-0