Same as in the US -- right wing politicians who believe the state is bad at doing things remove the funding that allowed the state to do it. Then when that mean

Same as in the US -- right wing politicians who believe the state is bad at doing things remove the funding that allowed the state to do it. Then when that means those government provided services become worse, they use that to show that the state is bad at doing those things, and therefore even less funding should go there, et cetera.