Sentences with phrase «of coalition cuts»

The office is stuffed full of leaflets on the negative effects of Coalition cuts and how to join and fight these.

Lunch with a minister at the heart of the coalition cuts operation made me realise just what a holidayfree summer this was for many in government.

Not exact matches

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Since 2006, Detroit has added 150 miles of new bike lanes, including some transformed from old railroads like the Dequindre Cut, says Todd Scott, head of the Detroit Greenways Coalition (and local bike historian).

According to the WSJ, the ads that don't make the cut would be from a list of ad types as defined by the Coalition for Better Ads, which it helped create.

It was not 15 months ago that he signed a coalition agreement to support each and every one of these tax cuts,» the Transport Minister observed.

Cuts to arts and media spawned a coalition of «Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation.»

The OPEC / non-OPEC coalition would need to extend its production cut agreement through all of 2018 for the market to balance, Wittner said.

Recent budget cuts, blamed on a deflating bitumen bubble, also threaten to unravel the coalition of moderate voters who carried her party to victory one year ago.

Just this past week, on Good Friday in fact, the formation of a «new Christian coalition, called the Circle of Protection,» was announced, intended «to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people.»

Since the election in 2010 the coalition government has placed a cap on the amount of benefits people can receive and introduced the Spare Room Subsidy that means people on housing benefit with more bedrooms than they needed had their benefits cut.

Washington (CNN)- A coalition of Christian groups opposing budget cuts for the poor is growing - and so is the conservative media's backlash against the group.

As distasteful as I find his position, I am actually grateful for Burk's post, and the Gospel Coalition's subsequent endorsement of it, because with it, we've finally cut through the crap to identify what this debate is really about: power.

A coalition of progressive Christian leaders has taken out a full - page ad that asks «What would Jesus cut?»

The report, aptly named The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste, was released on behalf of Champions 12.3, a coalition of nearly 40 leaders across business, government and civil society who are dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals» Target 12.3 to halve food waste and cut food loss by 2030.

Has the Coalition government cut $ 35 million from frontline legal services for victims of domestic and family violence?

O'Neill and Larson, who have formed a majority coalition with Commissioner Robert McKenna, blame the cost of building and maintaining the Sanctuary Golf Course for draining the Park District treasury and cutting into funds available to develop new parks and refurbish old ones.

Departments not protected by ringfencing will face total cuts of over 30 % since 2010 by the end of the coalition's eight - year austerity programme, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.

Does this line of argument ultimately endorse the coalition government's draconian cuts to legal aid as a tool for securing higher success figures for the UKBA?

However the election is still over three years away, and if the significantly higher fees do turn out to deter tens of thousands of young people from attending university then it's perfectly possible the coalition could cut fees themselves - pulling Labour's rug out from under them.

Assuming the coalition continues its austerity drive at the same pace as that seen in the period covered by the 2010 comprehensive spending review, all government departments will have to make cuts of 1.6 %.

The coalition will hold a one - off one - year spending review in the new year, which will reveal by the end of the first half of 2013 plans for the departmental cuts anticipated by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the 2015/16 financial year.

«We must win the argument that the speed and severity of the coalition's cuts are both unfair and unnecessary, and will put the recovery at risk.

While other countries wrestled with paralysed political systems, our Coalition Government united behind the swift and decisive action of in - year cuts and the Emergency Budget.

Conservative leader David Cameron's speech in Dartford on the need for more welfare cuts, and where he hopes to make them, is being viewed as a key moment in the development of the coalition.

Ed Miliband suffered outbreaks of heckling today as he addressed tens of thousands of people marching against the coalition's spending cuts.

Public sector bodies and local councils in Britain are determining out how best to respond and adapt to the next wave of change driven by the cuts imposed by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition government.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

The coalition government is conscious of the fact that such an unpopular tax rise would be highly damaging to public support in an environment where public spending is being drastically cut back.

Its practical application, and that of the Coalition's Localism Bill, can be seen to have shifted responsibility for delivering services and managing budgets onto the local and community level, while effectively withholding power through enforcing cuts and strengthening government oversight, as with Gove's current dominion over education provision.

Another minister in the Coalition said grandiosely that the reforms and cuts proposed presented a «unique opportunity to redefine the horizon of expectations» of the British people.

Of course, Cable suggests that the Coalition's «expansionary fiscal contraction» would have the fulsome support of the «liberal» Keynes, but the Conservatives departed not one bit from their central economic plans outlined in the Tory manifesto of 2010 (admittedly, inheritance tax cuts were postponedOf course, Cable suggests that the Coalition's «expansionary fiscal contraction» would have the fulsome support of the «liberal» Keynes, but the Conservatives departed not one bit from their central economic plans outlined in the Tory manifesto of 2010 (admittedly, inheritance tax cuts were postponedof the «liberal» Keynes, but the Conservatives departed not one bit from their central economic plans outlined in the Tory manifesto of 2010 (admittedly, inheritance tax cuts were postponedof 2010 (admittedly, inheritance tax cuts were postponed).

In those more recent fiscal squeezes, year - to - year cuts in public spending have been notably less deep than those imposed after both world wars or the «Geddes Axe» cuts initiated by the Conservative - Liberal coalition of the early 1920s.

We need to broaden a coalition of progressive values to protect people against the scorched earth policy of the cuts...

It takes real political guts to increase spending overseas at a time of desperate cost - cutting but the coalition is doing it, from # 6.6 bn in Labour's last full year in power to a planned # 8bn this year.

Labour said the funding announced today by the chancellor was a «tiny proportion» of over # 2 billion of spending cuts to HMRC imposed by the coalition, however.

At 2:30 p.m., the state Child Welfare Coalition and the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York urge state lawmakers to reject state budget cuts targeted at vulnerable children, youth and families, third floor, outside state Senate Chambers, state Capitol, Albany.

So, our debate with the Lib - Dems and their supporters should not be about the fairness of cuts - which ends up with short - term / long - term arguments - but the kamikazi economics of the coalition agreement, which threatens at worst a return to recession and at best low levels of growth.

Next week is set to be one of the coalition's toughest yet, as the struggling economy makes spending cuts even worse.

At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

The advent of coalition has both created and reflected a new era of broad consensus where the biggest battles are over tweaks to the benefits system and hand - wringing over cuts which all the parties would, more or less, be obliged to implement.

Early on, more voters viewed the coalition as cutting too deep and too fast than thought positively of them.

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

Labour will, of course, seek to blame Osborne and Cameron for these cuts and Tories are anxious about a «severed legs» strategy where Labour make headline - grabbing cuts wherever they have power, hoping to inflict maximum damage on the Coalition in Westminster, while Tory councils, for example, make responsible cuts.

In the UK, a Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government elected in 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovations.

One means of doing so would be for the Chancellor formally to declare, for the first time, that the Coalition's committed to cutting the top rate of income tax as soon as possible.

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

It is, of course, possible that a lot of people don't like the proposed cuts and so disapprove of what the government is doing but are definitely * not * going to vote Labour because they have noticed that New Labour created the appalling mess that the Coalition government is trying to clean up.

But he has earned Cameron's gratitude by taking a hefty pay cut to enter No 10 on a special adviser's salary of # 140,000 a year, having helped with the negotiations that created the Coalition Government.

Speaking at a press conference in Whitehall, Nick Clegg referred to Tory plans to make a further # 25bn of cuts to the welfare budget as a «monumental mistake» and went on to outline ideological differences between the two coalition parties on issues like fairer taxation.