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No, you are missing the point! The reason why government spending continued to grow was because of the low growth in the economy which meant that the government was committed to spending more than Osborne planned. See Osborne's budget predictions in 2010: the budget deficit was going to be...

I think that some might dispute your claim that education, transport, police etc are non-core services. Also factor in cuts to local government spending and you have local public services, libraries, local roads, etc declining. What we saw was a decline in public services over this period. And...

That's because in reality it's not true! Spending went up on welfare benefits and pensions! Spending also went up on debt interest payments, and spending went up on international aid and development. Health spending was marginally up. Spending on every other government department went down in...