Cornish - rapidly going off-thread, but the problem with NuLabour is it can't differentiate between chucking money at a problem, and making sure that the problem gets solved.
My daughter's secondary school has has loads of money pumped in, but results have not improved. Finally the Head walked (early retirement) when an inspection showed this. Until then she spouted all the right NuSpeak buzzwords, but with no end result.
The same is largely true of the NHS, at which GB has tossed £billions. It was crap, and large bits of it are still crap. I know, as my wife and my mum are both very dependant on it, and they've had slack, sometimes incompetent service for years that is far too common, I understand.
If the MoD's procurement process is half as bad as some of my experiences with other government departments then it too needs to change.
Overall budget increases might be desirable, but if they don't deliver, then they and the baseline budget are being wasted to a greater or lesser extent.