Blog comment reposted verbatim:
How ironic – on the same day that the UKSA says the figures are wrong and misleading the HoC Tory majority debates NHS funding and makes a formal statement.
In yesterdays NHS funding debate neither Neil Pariah nor Hugo Swine said anything. See
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2016-11-22a.820.0&s=speaker%3A25120
But there was a vote about what the HoC wanted to say about the funding crisis. The original text was:
That this House notes with concern that the deficit in the budgets of NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England at the end of the 2015–16 financial year was £2.45 billion; further notes that members of the Health Committee wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer about their concerns that Government assertions on NHS funding were incorrect and risked giving a false impression; and calls on the Government to use the Autumn Statement to address the underfunding of the NHS and guarantee sustainable financing of the NHS.
However the Conservatives voted to change this to:
That this House welcomes the Government’s investment, on the back of a strong economy, of significant additional funding and resources each year for the NHS during the 2015 Parliament; notes that this settlement was frontloaded at the specific request of the NHS in NHS England’s own plan to deliver an improved and more sustainable service, the Five Year Forward View; and further notes that the NHS will receive a real terms increase in funding in each year of the Spending Review period, while the Labour Party’s Manifesto at the last election committed to only an extra £2.5 billion a year by 2020, far less than the NHS requested.
And both Neil Pariah and Hugo Swine voted for the revised text, turning a call for increased funding into a sycophantic statement about how wonderful the Government is funding the NHS.
So next time either of our MPs say how concerned they are about the NHS and how they will fight for extra funding (like Hugo Swire said in Pulman’s only yesterday) you should consider carefully whether they are really fighting for extra funding or simply paying lip service (or as we commoners might say “lying”) in order to keep your votes.
East Devon Watch 
Leaving aside the obvious typos, since this was sent in, the Philip Hammock has issued his autumn statement, in which there is not a single word about the health service in the written version, and a single flat denial of any issue with the NHS funding in the oral version.
It beggars belief that the Tory government is continuing to deny what the National Audit Office, the UK Statistics Authority and the accounts of most if not all of the NHS Trust across the UK who are in deficit are saying?
Closing their eyes and ears and sticking their heads in the sand like ostriches will not make this go away.
Quite simply, the Conservatives are in denial and are allowing our NHS to be destroyed in these misguided attempts to close the funding gap through cuts.
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