Sentences with phrase «age of austerity»

You may need to make a few adjustments to your plans to prepare for this new age of austerity, but for most people, they needn't be drastic.

But their agenda is to make the economic polarization between creditors and debtors irreversible, ushering in a Dark Age of austerity and deepening debt peonage in which wages, profits and property rents are earmarked to pay interest — on loans that can't be paid in a shrinking economy.

Though he did not argue in favour of any particular reform Lord Thomas did stress that in the current age of austerity «These positions need careful consideration.

Tories unveil a brutal new age of austerity.

Correct though they may be, one thing is certain: the Age of Austerity will hurt.

If the Age of Austerity is badly managed, says Hodgson, «it could last for generations.»

THE AGE OF AUSTERITY: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics (Doubleday) Thomas Byrne Edsall

But policy innovation in an age of austerity tends to be politically perilous, because the....

But if an age of austerity puts limits on what can plausibly be promised by those who hope to govern, it liberates those who are interested in brand building.

But policy innovation in an age of austerity tends to be politically perilous, because the pie seems to be shrinking and everyone's worried about losing his or her own piece.»

Now here is a man who recognizes that «policy innovation in an age of austerity tends to be politically perilous.»

The footballing landscape has changed in that time with large broadcast deals and billionaire investment in clubs, but the age of austerity was meant to be over for Arsenal by this point with the Emirates Stadium now 11 years old.

Appropriately enough for a politician who was at the heart of an age of austerity coalition government, Sir Vince Cable's new office on the third floor of Portcullis House is spartan.

Nonetheless, the only means of improving services in an age of austerity, enabling more citizens to experience and achieve excellence, may be precisely to tolerate greater variance in outcomes.

«As the age of austerity rolls on, the gap between women and men's wages could well widen,» Charlie Woodworth of the Fawcett Society said.

Professor Jones is author of «The Politics of Economic and Monetary Union» (2002), «Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Small States» (2008), and, together with Dana Allin, «Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity» (2012).

The government guarantee of 0.7 % of GDP on aid spending, which functions as a litmus test of the Conservatives» moral responsibility in an age of austerity, also creates perverse incentives.

There is often criticism from some commentators that in this age of austerity, the Falkland Islands is a financial white elephant.

David Cameron might stick to his general small - government vision, but I'm willing to bet he won't be making many more speeches centred around the theme «The Age of Austerity `; that's about as likely as Barack Obama running for re-election on the popularity of bank bailouts and stimulus programs.

In the age of austerity, families are struggling.

So why can't Alex Salmond get a poll lead in an age of austerity?

He wants to move from «an age of austerity to an age of enterprise», for example.

This is about the richest Tory front bench in living memory pledging to introduce an «age of austerity» — involving public spending cuts and pay freezes — from which their own estates will be conveniently exempt.

Not so long ago they heckled Theresa May when she told them that police officers would have to bear their share of the age of austerity.

Unsurprisingly, support for the Tories has diminished as they have made it clear — with Cameron's warning of «an age of austerity» and George Osborne's draconian cuts proposals — that they will ruthlessly carry out capitalism's demands for the working class to pay for the economic crisis.

Every interview with David Cameron and — especially — George Osborne, particularly on the economy, has to begin with the question: «If we're all in this together, and this is the age of austerity, why are you so wedded to a tax cut for the nation's richest estates?»

Achieving more for less in this age of austerity is not just a technical question of managerial efficiency.

In the age of austerity we've got to ask ourselves what we really value in the public sector: and I know what the answer is.

But when there are still millions of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right for people earning over # 50,000 a year to get state benefits in the form of tax credits?

In the age of austerity, where we'll be asking frontline public sector workers to help us keep pay levels down we can not leave the pay of public sector bureaucrats untouched.

But best of all in this age of austerity, a web - based version of the government's bureaucratic scheme services like Google Health or Microsoft Health Vault cost virtually nothing to run.

The BBC has been increasingly at pains to counter criticism, emanating especially from the right - wing press, that far too much focus at the broadcaster was given to managers and executives earning high salaries that could no longer be justified in an age of austerity.

So it will fall to this Party to offer the responsible politics the country expects in this age of austerity.

Culture secretary Maria Miller's arts speech, «Testing times: Fighting culture's corner in an age of austerity.»

To reshape government from the bloated waste and broken assumptions of an age of irresponsibility to the new rigours of an age of austerity - so that it serves the people who pay for it.

So our plans for school reform, welfare reform and strengthening families plans which might once have been seen as just socially desirable in the age of austerity become economically essential.

No policy for how to govern in an age of austerity.

Adam Fleming took the Daily Politics mood box to find out whether the public thought the age of austerity was worth it.

Adam Fleming took the mood box to find out whether the public thought the age of austerity was worth it as the crisis in the eurozone rumbles on, government cuts are starting to bite, and the cost of living continues to go up.

His age of austerity will be giving way to an age of ecology, an age of scientific revolution or, perhaps, even the age of Boris.

Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, accused Mr Cameron of talking the British economy down by speaking about «an age of austerity» and warned that this could jeopardise the recovery.

anger and discontent of the general public towards the coalition's «age of austerity».

How does Labour cope in an age of austerity?

The trend has continued into the age of austerity.

Then it was also spoken of as an age of austerity.

In an age of austerity, with further cuts to come, a Rolls Royce convention may not be feasible.

«I know this will not be to everyone's taste but in an age of austerity, when times are tough and money is tight, our focus must be on culture's economic impact.»

An initial academic assessment of the coalition government, relating implementation to policy objectives, is brought together by Simon Lee and Matt Beech in The Cameron - Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity (Palgrave Macmillan, # 19.99).

Any cash boost — and this one is estimated to be to the tune of # 600m — in the age of austerity will be welcomed with open arms, while teachers across the country will no doubt be pleased to hear about a bit of nutritional help in the classroom.