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#GE2017 Conservative NHS spending openness and "real terms"

[ Short link to this article if you need it - https://goo.gl/g8GVjB - or retweet me ] I'm slightly apologetic for posting a non-technical post in here but I'll make a thin connection by saying that in an era of openness and transparency where we can now use the internet and social media to interact and scrutinise policies more closely than was ever possible in the past, this makes for a curious case study. And it's one which the traditional media (from what I've seen) haven't yet taken them to task over. I should point out that in no way is this post intended as a general indication of any party policies or affiliation on my part, it's just the one that got my attention when I started spotted conflicts in the messages. I'm confused, and I've read all of the manifestos. At the time of writing there is less than a week to go before the 2017 UK General Election, and I cannot figure out what on earth the policy of the incumbent Conservative (a.k.a Tory