> The UK total budget expenditures have gone up every year. Only if you only look at the raw £ figures, and take into account neither inflation nor population

> The UK total budget expenditures have gone up every year. Only if you only look at the raw £ figures, and take into account neither inflation nor population growth. Public expenditure between 2010 and 2016 (since the Tories came to power) has gone from £673bn to £759bn. In that time, the CPI's gone from 112 to 127.[0] Population growth is about 7.4% every 10 years.[1] Expenditure per capita is not increasing in real terms. (Also, there are good reasons that economists measure public expenditure as a % of GDP). [0] http://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/uk-historical-cpi http://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/uk-histori... [1] 2001 census: 58.78m; 2011 census: 63.18m