Sentences with phrase «need more austerity»

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In practice, the IMF simply advances however much a government needs to bail out its bankers and bondholders, pretending that more austerity enhances the ability to pay, not worsen it.

Any politician can rattle on about ending austerity - and by god, politicians of all stripes do these days - but there needs to be more.

This is unlikely to make them very receptive to accepting the need for more austerity - as the Lib Dems and Conservatives have been forced to - by offering joint spending plans to 2017/18.

Instead of scaring they need positive persuasion with something that appeals to their strong preferences for more devolution and against austerity cuts.

Labour needs to say much more confidently than it has done so far that this agony of austerity imposed by the Tories is not necessary and not inevitable.

Whatever money is needed for it will be spent,» declared British prime minister David Cameron — Mr. Austerity himself — when large parts of his country were underwater from historic flooding in February 2014 and the public was enraged that his government was not doing more to help.7

While some austerity mongers, like David Cameron in Britain, claim to care about global warming and may believe that the fictional shortage of government money he promotes is a stand - in for the real shortage of atmospheric assets of the earth, the overall effect of austerity is to, as with neoliberalism more generally, to undermine the critically important instrument of government at exactly the time when it is needed most.