Sentences with phrase «promising more austerity»
After yesterday's harsh speech from George Osborne promising more austerity in the next parliament, Cameron made a series of pledges on income tax, housing and zero hours contracts to sweeten the pill of continued spending cuts.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.
You can either pretend, as Labour does, that the government should go on as before, and hope no one notices the illogicality of promising to spend far less on much more; or you can recognise that the crisis of over-spending is really a crisis of over-government and do something about it: progressive austerity, as George Osborne once defined it.
A few years ago, the EU put Greece under a severe austerity program, but it did nothing but anger the Greek citizenry, who then recently elected a left - wing government that promised them a more splendiferous future.