If Britain were Greece...

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Job losses in the tens of thousands, drastic wage cuts, and working even further into old age - just some of the challenges that would loom in the UK if the government had to introduce austerity cuts on the scale currently facing the Greeks.

For <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/" >BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House</a> - the Sunday Times Economics Editor, David Smith, was asked to imagine what would happen if Britain had Greece's problems.

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<em>Images from PA, Getty Images, Reuters and Science Photo Library. Music by KPM Music.</em>

<em>Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 29 February 2012.</em>

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