Sentences with phrase «right on austerity»

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Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

Bond holders, banks, and IMF bear responsibility for having made irresponsible loans to Greece, so it is not right for them to force yet more austerity on Greece, says Michael Hudson.

Are individual rights based on societal righteousness within the parameters of cultural soundness for so being as the kindled crooked line drawn, distanced and so bellicosely thwarted by religious austerities so choosing?

I suspect that this image accounts for the continuing attachment to austerity among those on the right.

Indeed, one justice minister admitted that the cuts were made urgently and without time for research, in fundamental contradiction to what international human rights law and standards require, which is a thorough assessment of the likely impact on people and their human rights prior to the introduction of retrogressive austerity measures.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

To write to Alan Johnson calling for the Labour campaign to stake out a clear left - wing agenda based on opposing austerity and fighting for public services, workers» rights and migrants» rights.

But when there are still millions of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right for people earning over # 50,000 a year to get state benefits in the form of tax credits?

George Osborne has seized on the crisis in Portugal as a sign that the coalition took the right action when it launched an austerity drive.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

On Sunday, Andrew Cuomo staked his claim to a new Democratic path, between confrontation and capitulation, left and right: progressive austerity, achieved through equal parts brute force and seduction, bringing business, labor, and politicians together to work it out semi-peacefully.

We could actually WIN the next one — but with a still massively entrenched irreconcilable neoliberalism entranced PLP Right / centre right majority and hostile Right controlled Party machine, and too many local Labour councils dominated by corrupt and / or careerist, Austerity implementing, family - based cabals, a Labour Party elected on a radical Left Keynsian manifesto such as the current one later this year, would be carved up and broken by internal treachery and market forces pretty much as quickly as Greece's Syriza governmentRight / centre right majority and hostile Right controlled Party machine, and too many local Labour councils dominated by corrupt and / or careerist, Austerity implementing, family - based cabals, a Labour Party elected on a radical Left Keynsian manifesto such as the current one later this year, would be carved up and broken by internal treachery and market forces pretty much as quickly as Greece's Syriza governmentright majority and hostile Right controlled Party machine, and too many local Labour councils dominated by corrupt and / or careerist, Austerity implementing, family - based cabals, a Labour Party elected on a radical Left Keynsian manifesto such as the current one later this year, would be carved up and broken by internal treachery and market forces pretty much as quickly as Greece's Syriza governmentRight controlled Party machine, and too many local Labour councils dominated by corrupt and / or careerist, Austerity implementing, family - based cabals, a Labour Party elected on a radical Left Keynsian manifesto such as the current one later this year, would be carved up and broken by internal treachery and market forces pretty much as quickly as Greece's Syriza government was.

The highly critical report, published in Geneva on Monday afternoon, says the rights of disabled people to live independently, to work, and achieve an adequate standard of living have been negatively affected by austerity measures.

Even though United Nations (UN) independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina had warned that the introduction of a second austerity package could constitute a serious violation against the Greeks» human rights, this did not stop the government from going forward (OHCHR, 2011) A massive wave of protests and riots full of anger and desperation erupted within the country condemning Papandreou's policies and the austerity measures.