Gammon Verify 🐖✅: Is the NHS "the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British"?

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Hello, I’m Charlotte Gill - and I’m a disinformation correspondent at Gammon Verify, a new service for deplorables.

I’m also one of the most trolled journalists by cyclists. Soon I’ll be releasing my latest tell-all book Among the Hi-Vis: My Journey Through Lycraland where you can find out more.

But enough about me. Here we’ll be bringing you the latest updates from the frontline of the disinformation wars.

This week the Gammon Verify Team has been fact-checking Jeremy Hunt’s claims in his spring Budget, which took place on Wednesday 6th March at 12.30pm - a time that’s referred to as “lunchtime” in some cultures.

Gammon Verify can reveal that the Chancellor’s budget was 7322 words long, with 42544 characters and 35609 characters excluding space.

To analyse the Chancellor’s pledges, Gammon Verify fed the budget speech through its synergiser (below):

Gammon Verify can confirm that the Chancellor’s statement offered some dangerous disinformation.

Blink, and you might have missed it, but the Gammon Verify team did not.

Combing through hours of visual and audio content, Gammon Verify found a line - around halfway through - when the Chancellor claimed that “The NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British.”

Using eyewitnesses and personal testimony, Gammon Verify was able to scrutinise the veracity of the claim, and confirm that it doesn’t hold up based on the synergiser’s reality-perception matrix.

Gammon Verify also found at least five eye witness testimonies disputing the Chancellor’s words.

One of these, who calls herself Dorothy, said on X: “The NHS is no longer something to be proud of”.

Another user, whose identity Gammon Verify wasn’t able to confirm but whose post had 50 likes, indicating a high-degree of public trust in the validity of their claims, said it is “one of the worst providers of healthcare in the advanced world” and “an over managed woke money-pit”.

A man called Adrian said it was “the LAST reason why I am proud to be British. It’s wasteful and it’s failing.”

Using this data, and cross-checking against its synergiser results - Gammon Verify was able to confirm evidence of disinformation.

At one point, the data going through Gammon Verify’s synergiser was so strong that it overheated. It can be a problem in the world of disinformation, where lies are like bullets hitting at every moment.

The synergiser is now checking the content of the rest of Hunt’s speech. Muggles are encouraged to stay vigilant until then.