The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had
enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.
«What's happened is people have said they have had quite
enough of austerity politics, they have had quite enough of cuts in public expenditure, underfunding our health service, underfunding our schools and our education service and not giving our young people the chance they deserve in our society.»
What's happened is people have said they've had quite
enough of austerity politics.»
People have said they've had quite
enough of austerity politics.
Not exact matches
Among them: Greeks would not take adequate structural reforms to spur growth, they would not sell
enough of their assets to repay their debt, and they were unable to undertake sufficient fiscal
austerity.
Given also the need for an
austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong
enough to take over in a couple
of years.
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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.
It is not
enough to show how Tory
austerity has threatened the security
of families and communities — we need to create a positive narrative that sets us apart from the cynicism and individualism that dominates current political discourse.
But he was not unhappy
enough to decline to go along with a deal which removed the possibility
of critics
of austerity having any impact on policy.
There will be time
enough to steer the heart
of the party later but, for the moment, we must accept that our leftwards shift has failed and that we now urgently need to move forwards - because time is a luxury that those suffering under this government's dogma - driven policies
of cuts and
austerity simply can not afford.
While the hard right
of the party, by subscribing to economically illiterate and socially unjust policies
of austerity are consigning themselves to fourth place in the Party's leadership election, the Corbyn campaign is capturing all the headlines — and maybe, a substantial
enough portion
of the votes to win.
The remainder
of Fresh Horses is relatively impenetrable, with Anspaugh's usual clubfooted attempts at
austerity — that his training ground was the slick and trendy TV series «Miami Vice» (hence Matt and Tipton riding a speedboat over the opening credits, I guess) surely puts what he knows and what he envisions into conflict — prolonging the agony, though it warrants mention that Anspaugh has some wizardly knack for making dull movies that are just idiosyncratic
enough to stave off boredom.