It's not the budget. It's the hidden cuts to services, the declining maintenance to infrastructure, the privatization of essentials. Those are the licks they take from the pot, while they tell you the pot is still full.

Exactly! Shrinkflation, wage suppression, union busting, dynamic pricing of medications, etc -- lick, lick, lick!

[1]https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/175/grimms-fairy-tales/3068/cat-a...

(edit, this isn't for the UK, but fat cats abound!)

Apologies but what money is spent on in the UK is public information —- it is part of the budget. The fat cat and the hoodwinked mouse is a poor metaphor.

The pot in the parable is also public information - the mouse could have just opened the lid every now and then to check the levels.

It doesn't matter how public it is. It matters whether the public actually knows about it and understands it.

The money to pay for those things would have to come from you, the people. They are not taking it away, there is nothing to distribute.

Profit of corporations is the stole surplus value of the workers. And there's been plenty of it