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While it’s quite possible for the UK to mitigate the effects of Brexit and attempt to find positives, expecting that to happen under a Conservative government i

While it’s quite possible for the UK to mitigate the effects of Brexit and attempt to find positives, expecting that to happen under a Conservative government is, frankly, laughable based on the last decade of evidence. The idea that reduced prosperity in London world somehow cause more attention to be given in underserved parts of the rest of the country makes little sense to me either. M

0xy 4y ago
The NHS budget was 100 billion pounds in 2015 and is now 136 billion pounds, which means a 692m pound weekly increase in spending. One of the pieces of fearmongering from anti-Brexit campaigners was that the NHS would be starved of resources and would not receive adequate funding. Now that it's been proven a lie, anyone against Brexit claims they never made those statements. In fact, one of the most lambasted pro-Brexit selling points was additional NHS funding. It actually happened.
- clnq 4y ago
  £100 in 2015 is equivalent to £131 today due to lost Pound Sterling value.
  - 0xy 4y ago
    The 131 is the budget for 2021/22, which was before the massive spike in inflation. The inflation between 2015 and 2021 is only 15.7%, meaning the budget has been raised by 15 billion pounds a year above inflation figures. It doesn't really seem like a fair comparison if 2022 alone (after the budget was already set) had more inflation than the preceding 6 years combined. In fact, the NHS budget is rising substantially by 2023/24 to counter-act the recent inflation events -- to 160 billion. [1] This would mean the NHS budget has risen by 60% between 2015 and 2023, outpacing inflation substantially to an increase in real terms. Just to put this in perspective, the pro-Brexit campaign was mocked for "falsely" promising 350m pounds a week in additional spending, when the spending increase is already double that and is scheduled to quadruple by 2023. [1] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2022/11/autumn-budget-2022-announced-what-does-it-mean-health-and-care-spending https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2022/11/autumn-budget-2022...
    - lotsofpulp 4y ago
      What if healthcare labor supply and demand curves are moving in such ways so as to necessitate price increases that outpace overall inflation? For example, due to an aging society with more and more healthcare receivers and proportionally fewer and fewer younger healthcare suppliers.
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- triceratops 4y ago
  You can't think of anything that might've happened between 2015 and 2022 that would have required healthcare spending to go up? And how does it compare as a percentage of the national budget between then and now? Government spending as a whole went up in the past 2 years.

0xy 4y ago

The NHS budget was 100 billion pounds in 2015 and is now 136 billion pounds, which means a 692m pound weekly increase in spending. One of the pieces of fearmongering from anti-Brexit campaigners was that the NHS would be starved of resources and would not receive adequate funding. Now that it's been proven a lie, anyone against Brexit claims they never made those statements. In fact, one of the most lambasted pro-Brexit selling points was additional NHS funding. It actually happened.

clnq 4y ago
£100 in 2015 is equivalent to £131 today due to lost Pound Sterling value.
- 0xy 4y ago
  The 131 is the budget for 2021/22, which was before the massive spike in inflation. The inflation between 2015 and 2021 is only 15.7%, meaning the budget has been raised by 15 billion pounds a year above inflation figures. It doesn't really seem like a fair comparison if 2022 alone (after the budget was already set) had more inflation than the preceding 6 years combined. In fact, the NHS budget is rising substantially by 2023/24 to counter-act the recent inflation events -- to 160 billion. [1] This would mean the NHS budget has risen by 60% between 2015 and 2023, outpacing inflation substantially to an increase in real terms. Just to put this in perspective, the pro-Brexit campaign was mocked for "falsely" promising 350m pounds a week in additional spending, when the spending increase is already double that and is scheduled to quadruple by 2023. [1] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2022/11/autumn-budget-2022-announced-what-does-it-mean-health-and-care-spending https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2022/11/autumn-budget-2022...
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    What if healthcare labor supply and demand curves are moving in such ways so as to necessitate price increases that outpace overall inflation? For example, due to an aging society with more and more healthcare receivers and proportionally fewer and fewer younger healthcare suppliers.
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triceratops 4y ago
You can't think of anything that might've happened between 2015 and 2022 that would have required healthcare spending to go up? And how does it compare as a percentage of the national budget between then and now? Government spending as a whole went up in the past 2 years.