Sentences with phrase «blank cheque for»

You aren't signing a blank cheque for legal fees.

How can there be «no money» for tax cuts but a blank cheque for a bank bail - out?

There will be no blank cheque for such projects;

At Plaid's Spring conference, Leanne Wood claimed a Plaid presence in government was the only alternative to «a blank cheque for further cuts» while Nicola Sturgeon has called for an end to the «cosy consensus» on austerity — something she has also described as the «depressive cuts agenda».

If the Lords amendments are overturned, it is unlikely that charity trustees would feel able to sign a blank cheque for an unpredictable and unquantifiable bill associated with a proposed intervention.

The need to placate Labour is of course due to Ed Balls insisting that «there will be no blank cheque for HS2», which is quite bizarre because a blank cheque is exactly what MPs voted for last week in passing the HS2 preparation bill.

Similarly, the SNP argued that Labour MPs had handed the Government a «blank cheque for hard Brexit».

Your Point is irrelevant, Man City were after Lionel Messi last year and where contemplating paying his 250 million buy out close, they could have written a blank cheque for his wages, But obviously its a nonsensical move.

«This looks like Mr. Harper wants a blank cheque for this war, with no one having access to the numbers,» he said.

The world has progressed and is no longer prepared to write blank cheques for policies to mitigate GHG emissions.

Not exact matches

If you want to really compete for the Champions league, get yourself a blank cheque and begin by winning your own League first.

If it wasn't for cities devastating form alongside that blank cheque book I think pundits would be saying Arsenal have every chance this year.

If even more examples for the «spend spend spend» fanatics are needed then just look at the blank cheques Man City have been writing for the last decade, and have they managed to make any notable impact on the Champions league?

Many wish we had Suarez and because we actually went for him but failed because Arsene Wenger wouldn't write a blank cheque to a club that was unwilling to part with their most treasured resource, these souls took it out on Giroud.

So let me be clear, in tough times — when there is less money around and a big deficit to get down — there will be no blank cheque from me as a Labour Chancellor for this project or for any project.

She repeats that there will be «no blank cheque» for the project but urges the government to «get a grip on this project, get a grip on its budget and get it back on track».

The scheme is still officially backed by all three political parties although Labour have shifted their support recently, warning that there will be «no blank cheque» for the scheme.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has also made it clear that he thinks the «blank cheque» could work as an election message for Labour.

The chancellor backed the scheme in his Tory party conference speech on Monday, but the shadow chancellor said last week there would be no blank cheque from Labour for the project.

Renewed «Party Unity» has to be on Jeremy's, continuation of Labour's left Keynsian agenda» terms, not the blank cheque offering of a chance for the irredentist Labour neoliberal Right to subvert our gains and Left direction.

Free trade, infrastructure assistance and encouragement for business will do more for the third world than Hilary Benn writing blank cheques on our behalf.

The National Union of Students (NUS) President Aaron Porter, who wrote a piece for Channel 4 News asking Lord Browne if he would like to start his adult life with debts of # 40k last week, said: «If adopted, Lord Browne's review would hand universities a blank cheque and force the next generation to pick up the tab for devastating cuts to higher education.

This followed warnings from shadow chancellor Ed Balls at last month's party conference that there would be «no blank cheque» for the # 42 billion project if costs escalated.

«Wales sent a clear message to Theresa May's and her bid for a blank cheque.

«The Government has ignored our calls, and for this reason I would be failing my constituents and the people of Wales if I was to support this inadequate blank cheque Bill.»

«As Jeremy Corbyn's Labour have handed the Tories a Brexit blank cheque, the Liberal Democrats will hold this Brexit Government to account and fight for Britain's place in the Single Market.»

Pepperall writes: «This solution is intended to ensure that the miscreant is still punished for the default that led to the sanction while the innocent party does not have a blank cheque to turn down reasonable settlement offers.»

I've noticed that members of the legal community tend to not have much to say, or for that matter even undertake to suggest an abuse may have taken place, when a legal decision may be seen as having very heavy political overtones — as evidenced by the truth having become so weighted down as to be tethered, thus clearing the way for the facts to be like blank cheques to be used as unscrupulous currency, by those who can simply choose to control the outcome.