You also haven't quite thought out where we're going to get 25 trillion quid from. However, giving families dosh isn't such a bad idea. It could have been done by giving families vouchers to spend instead of handing hundreds of billions over to banks in the form of quantitative easing (aka printing money). Unlike the banks, families would have ploughed the dough back into the economy and stimulated the growth we so badly need to get us out of the downward spiral.