Quote Originally Posted by regis80 View Post
I'm not sure which part of that source you want me to look at because majority of it all refers to 2021, great Matt!

There is however another graph that shows the expenditure since 1997 but you know what the notes states:

Notes:

Figures are presented in nominal terms (current prices), unadjusted for inflation.

If you look at Healthcare spending as a share of GDP since the Tories came in, before the pandemic you can see they have not increased investment. I'm not sure where this claim you make that Tories have spent more and what point you are trying to make. It's all relative to GDP. What you need to be comparing is to see who has invested more relatively and not based on how long each party has been in power. It's obvious a part in power for longer would have spent more - so the question begs what have they done with all that money. They wouldn't award their pals PPE contracts by any chance eh?

With all this said, I need to make clear i'm not here to suggest we should plough as much money into the NHS as we can - as Mick has said, it is badly run in many parts which I agree with. It just need better management and the Tories will never achiev that. They didn't in the 12 years they've been in power but they've siphoned billions and gave them to their pals.
Getting to the point where I and you don't know what you are trying to point out here. You said that austerity has been too severe...I said it hasn't and provided you information that backs this up. I don't know what you mean about 2021, it's a very clear picture of spend over a long period of time. You're right it doesn't account for inflation, which up to this year has been quite low - it was less than half a percent in 2015!

You can bring in opinion after opinion, but it will be just that...opinion, which we're all entitled to.