Bonds, such as the U.K. premium bond, can give the child a chance to be exposed monthly to the world of finance at an age when they would not understand other aspects of it.
It will be either a government based on dilution and compromise or a weak day-to-day, deal-and-favor arrangement that will see the value of the pound fall on the foreign exchanges and the premium of U.K. gilts over German bunds widen.