{"id":122611,"date":"2023-12-18T09:49:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=122611"},"modified":"2023-12-18T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:49:06","slug":"snp-slammed-for-nhs-funding-lie-with-tweet-receiving-humiliating-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/politics\/snp-slammed-for-nhs-funding-lie-with-tweet-receiving-humiliating-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"SNP slammed for NHS funding \u2018lie\u2019 with tweet receiving humiliating fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"
The SNP has been called out as liars after a claim about NHS funding north of the border had to be fact-checked by X.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the official Scottish Government account claimed that below-inflation spending increases in England are causing a real-terms cut to funding for the Scottish NHS.<\/p>\n
The account claimed: \u201cIn the UK Government’s Autumn Statement, only \u00a310.8million of extra funding was provided for NHS Scotland for the next year, a real-terms cut.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis would fund just 5 hours of NHS Scotland activity in a year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The post has now received a humiliating fact check, with X users adding a community note to the post describing the claim as \u201cmisleading\u201d.<\/p>\n
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READ MORE: <\/strong> Lee Anderson rages at \u2018vile\u2019 slur on his family in LBC phone-in prank<\/strong><\/p>\n Users pointed out that UK Government budgets do not provide funding for specific policy areas in devolved nations like the NHS, meaning any real-term cuts are the decision of the SNP administration.<\/p>\n The fact check added: \u201cThe Scottish Government is free to spend the money it receives from UK Government as a result of the autumn statement however it likes.\u201d<\/p>\n The claim was so inaccurate that prominent journalists, including one from the BBC, called out the lie.<\/p>\n Philip Sim, a political journalist at the broadcaster, said the claim was \u201cdeserving\u201d of its community note.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cBarnett consequentials are not ring-fenced, that’s the point of devolution.<\/p>\n \u201cMinisters were previously quite careful to say funding *from* health spending, but that nuance seems to have been lost since they came up with this \u20185 hours\u2019 line.\u201d<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> <\/p>\n
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