This is in contrast to how the letter to the weekend's Sunday Times by a group of economists in support of
the Conservative economic strategy was treated.
But the Coalition's embarrassments with
its Conservative economic strategy go deeper.
Not exact matches
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The
Conservatives are stressing their supposed credentials as «
economic managers» in their
strategy to win a majority — combined with fear - mongering about a future coalition (although that latter part of the
strategy may be backfiring on them).
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The
Conservative's
economic growth
strategy has been based on reducing the size and relevance of the Federal government in the management of the economy for the past eight years.
The
Conservative government's
strategy to strengthen potential
economic growth has been built entirely on building pipelines, and false «hope», and we know where this has got us.
Yet this isn't the first time in the present campaign that the
Conservatives themselves have trespassed on traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding
strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming
economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policy.
What is the most appropriate response from Liberal Democrat representatives at their Party's annual conference to an invitation to endorse and to continue with the
Conservative's
economic strategy?
Clegg has released a video to get across his message that we can't trust the Tories on Europe, but the
Conservatives are trustworthy enough for the two parties to work closely on broader
economic strategy, social and welfare reforms, education policy, and crime.
To date, the
Conservatives»
strategy has been focused on painting themselves as the only party that can be trusted to take the hard
economic decisions for the long term benefit of the country.
The whole
strategy of the
Conservative leadership seems to be to go for an even more image based version of the one that Tony Blair used in 1997, the pledge by Labour in the 1990s followed a situation in which the whole
economic strategy of the then
Conservative government had fallen apart to the point where things that had happened by accident were being described as policy and Kenneth Clarke commented that he went into a cabinet meeting in a situation in which the government no longer had an
economic policy.
The
Conservative party has set its
strategy for Labour under Corbyn in one slogan: a «threat to our national security, our
economic security and your family's security».
But it's clear the Lib Dems have become the Tories» useful idiots; offering progressive poses for a
Conservative budget that hits the poorest hardest and an
economic strategy that puts honest people's jobs at risk.
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For
conservative groups and industry associations, the analysis included a list of 42 organizations that had opposed cap and trade legislation, had dismissed expert consensus on climate science through various communication
strategies and / or had exaggerated the
economic costs of action.
Public Opinion
Strategies also found 60 % of
conservatives support requiring utilities to use renewable energy to produce 12.5 % of their electricity by 2027, and 76 % supported increasing research into battery storage technologies, which most analysts consider the next boom market in the renewable energy
economic sector.