Sentences with phrase «british public spending»

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The British government disputes this, pointing out that Scotland has higher per capita public - sector spending than England and so is more indebted.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

Public funds totalling # 500 million a year are being spent on an army of at least 29,000 professional politicians in the UK — which compares with the British electorate of more than 44 million.

The British public are to be consulted for the first time about how they want lottery money to be spent, the culture secretary announced today.

Bottled telling the British people the truth about the public spending cuts that are going to be necessary.

With the reasonableness of the provincial lawyer that he is, Darling muses that if Brown had come clean with the British public about the depth of the economic crisis and the urgent need to cut spending in the coming years, this could have brought success at the 2010 general election.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

My constituents in Witham and the majority of the British public now understand that the Government are dealing with spending, and that spending must come down.

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

The shadow chancellor, Alan Johnson, urges an 11th hour rethink of Tuesday's planned VAT rise in a letter to the government today, as theConfederation of British Industry (CBI) warned public spending cuts could lead to a dramatic slowdown in the pace of economic recovery.

Blame William Hague for his spineless comments when British jobs were on the line at the Total oil refinery, blame David Cameron for not saying he'd abandon the Lisbon Treaty, and blame George Osborne for talking about public spending cuts at a time when only public sector workers are working.

A consistent and legitimate criticism levelled at the Union with Scotland has been the cost to the British taxpayer of the inherited Barnett formula, but the impending Scotland Act should make Scotland accountable for its own public spending and crucially, how it raises it.

The tax and spending thinktank the Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested that the economic instability that could follow a British exit from the EU would hit public finances.

She has also spent some time in the private sector, as a public relations executive of Weber Shandwick, where a client was British American Tobacco, and in corporate affairs for Diageo, the drinks giant.

The # 3.6 billion a year that the BBC spends is seemingly immune from the harsh economising facing every other inch of the British public sector.

Even in Germany, renowned for its serious approach to cultural matters and where public spending on the arts is roughly four times the British level, cuts in federal and land budgets are being introduced.

Whatever money is needed for it will be spent,» declared British prime minister David Cameron — Mr. Austerity himself — when large parts of his country were underwater from historic flooding in February 2014 and the public was enraged that his government was not doing more to help.7

UK faces green agenda backlash as energy prices rise — The British government faces a public backlash against its green energy agenda as consumers are unwilling to spend more on -LSB-...]

British Columbia's Elections Act currently requires anyone engaged in election advertising to provide their full name and full address to an on - line public register regardless of how trivial a sum of money is spent on the advertising.

Therefore spending cuts will have to stay curbed for the remainder of those two years, and national taxes could change for the British public.

The press are already calling it «meagre October», as the British public decided to tighten their belts and spend less in stores.