The axe will fall everywhere irrespective of which party actually wins. The pledge "no cuts in frontline staff" is meaningless. The consultant you see may be frontline and still there but if (as is already happening) there is no-one to type his letter in a timely manner then the fact that you've been seen in two weeks or whatever is irrelevant.

The figures are so bad that no-one is daring to tell the truth.

Steve