the surplus is mostly statutory reserves, which is a cash buffer to cover temporary variation in receipts and outgoings. The way the surplus is invested reduces the public sector borrowing requirement, but it doesn't "pay off national debt". The headline of the piece is wrong.
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You already know this is nonsense, because several people have explained it to you. And you know that
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