Sentences with phrase «question of austerity»

The reality is that it is not a question of austerity vs generosity as that would be a gross over simplification but rather what is the most effective way for a government to spend the resources it has available and this comes down to complex fine details rather than slogans or internet memes.

That is why the question of austerity was raised more than once at the first meeting of the 1922 meeting.

Not exact matches

There's no question about it,» recalls Chris Ragan, an associate professor of economic policy at McGill University who agrees with the current austerity push.

So, by trying to rephrase the question in a way that will get a «Yes» vote, they avoid asking the really important question: Do you Greeks want to push yourselves into a decade of depression and impose austerity?

Those words of fact just puts a huge question mark on what the manager led us to believe in all those years of «austerity».

If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

And should we not form alliances with others who are willing to oppose austerity, the privatisation of CalMac ferries or the replacement of Trident even if they have a different view on the national question?

This doesn't really answer the question of what the aims of austerity are but more the result of and events leading up to austerity with a mixture of your own opinion, rather than cited facts.

Every interview with David Cameron and — especially — George Osborne, particularly on the economy, has to begin with the question: «If we're all in this together, and this is the age of austerity, why are you so wedded to a tax cut for the nation's richest estates?»

Achieving more for less in this age of austerity is not just a technical question of managerial efficiency.

Many of them hinged on local concerns — in particular why Bradford schools are so good at being poor — but then there were the questions about disability and austerity, investment in business and innovation, and tuition fees.

Ed Balls has accused the Chancellor of being in denial about the economic perils facing Britain after US growth figures posed fresh questions about the Government's austerity measures.

But in a period of government austerity some are questioning whether Freilich, 59, is a necessary asset to the State Police.

Nick Clegg has begun to think about these questions and today's Telegraph reports that he wants the elderly to shoulder a bigger share of austerity measures.

It is painful to watch the Labour leader attempt to mimic the mannerisms of an inspiring orator; excruciating to hear him reiterate Labour's commitment to austerity; boring to see his anodyne scripted responses to anodyne scripted questions.

That starts through a measure of Kubrickian austerity with a question about whether some people like Eric are truly incorrigible and should just be dropped in a deep, dark hole and forgotten about.

While this is politically useful at a time of national austerity, it also raises questions about why the government is introducing the pupil premium - extra funding to schools for each pupil eligible for free school meals.

Questions are also being raised about the role of private, for profit companies in probation services and arrest warrant outsourcing, and about how outsourcing and austerity has driven up the cost of courts administration.

Amid questions about what German austerity means for the Mediterranean way of life, and a refugee crisis straining relations among European nations, the Cadaqués exhibition showed how artistic influence and legacies transcend rhetoric, politics, and nationalism.

«CFA's analysis flags important differences in the multiple versions of austerity resolutions passed by the states, and calls into serious question how close the Koch machine is to getting a crack at rewriting the Constitution,» said Arn Pearson, CMD's General Counsel.

It would rather we unquestioningly adopted simple lives, didn't demand better living conditions, didn't ask questions about whose interests the «ethics» of austerity are working in favour of, and