You think what's happening now is comparable to a World War? What's happening now is far worse (financially speaking).

When thousands of the finest men from around the land were running into machine gun fire for King and country the Bank of England still managed to keep the base rate between 5 and 6 percent. During the blitz when everyone was eating lard on sandpaper for dinner the base rate stayed at 2 percent.

Keeping base rates at 0.5 percent for the last 4 years is unprecedented and can only be seen as an act of war by the feckless and over indebted against the prudent and sensible.