Sentences with phrase «pain of austerity»

He wondered why the nation did not simply choose to exit the European Union rather than go through the pain of austerity measures.

Vince Cable says the Tories still don't understand that they are alienating voters by failing to spread the pain of austerity

After all the pain of austerity, we still don't get what it's for.

Over half of the annual # 200 billion spent on benefits is spent on pensioners, but they have been spared any of the pain of austerity after the 2010 Tory manifesto pledged to protect them.

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He persuaded the public that the years of austerity were worth the pain and that there genuinely is light at the end of the tunnel.

Actually it does because the Tory manifesto will be used during the crucial last three weeks of the campaign to do the one thing that had to be done - to show the public who have had a tough time that five years of austerity were worth the pain as well as revealing that the light at the end of the tunnel is the Good Life.

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.

A curiously political and surprisingly honest criticism of the Labour plan to halve the deficit in four years rather than to eliminate the structural deficit altogether — that it would mean going into the next election with more pain and austerity ahead.

But in a year of such anguish - inducing austerity, the governor, to his credit, made the effort to spread to the pain.