‘what you are saying AlexB is that the current labour government is NOT printing money-it is easy to print money-the problem comes when you have to take REAL unpopular decisions to avoid the side effects of the ignorant money printing consumer boom!’

I think this is about UK being Weimer Germany.
Let me explain, taking out one thing in what hapend without looking at the whole picture and amounts involved is not possible.
Germany in 1921-23 was a country devastated by war.
Her industrial heart had been ripped out and after significantly restricting her ability to generate income she was asked to pay massive war repatriations.
If she fell behind her payments more of her territory and $%^&ts were occupied by allies.
The only way she could pay war repatriations was to print marks and purchase dollars or to get high interest dollar loans from US banks.
That was the reason for her hyperinflation.
Printing money without the other factors will not lead to hyperinflation.
In the case of UK it is just a presumption that massive amount of cash will be made available to consumers to cause hyperinflation.
Plans to freeze pays and increase taxes will infact mean less money available and thus reduce demand for goods with a fall in prices.
The other possibility is imported inflation due to UK inability to meet her debt payment.
There is no evidence yet that money will be printed to pay off debt.

Bottom line is that while some inflation is possible chances of a Weimer or Zimbabwe style hyperinflation is very remote indeed.
Even countries like Ukraine and Pakistan who have been printing money for a decade to meet they expenditure have run moderate hyperinflation (around 20% per year) and not 29,500% per month seen in Germany.

£200 billion is a trivial amount considering the 2000 billion plus UK economy.
Weimer inflation is possible when UK is a war devastated economy printing more money then her GDP every month.