the govt. refuses to add additional funding to those sectors This isn't true. It's really quite astonishing how often I see this claim being made and it's simp

the govt. refuses to add additional funding to those sectors This isn't true. It's really quite astonishing how often I see this claim being made and it's simply fake news, deception, whatever you want to call it. Here is a graph of NHS funding: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-... As you can see, it goes up reliably every year. That isn't "refusing to add additional funding". In fact here they are, saying funding will continue to rise: In July 2018, the NHS was given a new five-year funding deal that will see some health spending rise by 3.4 per cent on average from 2019/20 to 2023/24 and In the September 2019 Spending Round, the government announced further increases to budgets for capital investment, public health and the education and training of the NHS workforce NHS funding only ever goes up. Now, I know where this conversation goes. I've seen it many times. Someone replies and says, ohhhh, we don't mean literally they refuse to add additional funding. What we mean is we think they haven't been adding enough. But that is a very different claim, which is why people start out by claiming something false. Especially in politics, precision matters.