... it did not say what a lot of people read it as saying.
....And as I have pointed out above the NHS budgets have increased by more than the amount on the side of the bus

And we have another example there, don't we Nigel? It would be so easy to misunderstand that as suggesting the increase in NHS spending has anything at all to do with the message on the bus, but you are not saying it has, are you? Or are you?