Sentences with phrase «about public sector cuts»

We were talking about the public sector cuts which is going to seriously affect the local economy.

We were talking about the public sector cuts which

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At a time when the Government are cutting back on public services and relying on the private sector to meet the challenges of providing services to the Community in many of those areas where the public sector cut backs have reduced services, the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO) believes, the news that G4S have failed to meet their target for security personnel at the Olympic Games must leave us all concerned about the future.

He's talking about the need to cut debt and increase housing but refusing to acknowledge the huge benefits public assets bring, and never mentioning the role the private sector could play in responding to these issues.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

No - one really wanted to set out where the cuts will hit, and we had diversionary tactics such as talking about public sector pensions for the few very well paid public sector staff that won't make any real contribution to reducing the deficit.

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

«There is widespread disappointment with the Liberal Democrats from people who voted for them in the last election about the way they support the huge cuts the Tories are proposing in the public sector,» she argues.

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

Joblessness went up by 35,000 in the three months to October, raising concern about the readiness of the market for public sector cuts.

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.

It was right for people, mainly public sector workers, to express how they felt about cuts to the their services, which they believe will increase social inequality in this country.

Proboscis is today launching the first series of Material Conditions, a set of eight eBooks created with our self - publishing platform bookleteer, asking professional creative practitioners to reflect on what the material conditions for their own practice are, especially now in relation to the climate of change and uncertainty brought about by the recession and public sector cuts.

But the opposition parties warn it's a ticking time bomb that will herald a new wave of public sector job cuts and provoke a downgrade of Ontario's debt rating, jacking up borrowing costs that are already consuming about $ 11 billion a year — its fourth - largest expense.

The infrared camera, though, is doing more than just cutting emission and reducing costs; it's changing the attitudes of the public and policy makers about the need to reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.