Sentences with phrase «squeezed middle»

The lesson moves on to look at the new middle class and in addition to describing the numbers, students finish the lesson by contemplating the challenges and vulnerability of this new middle class as well as consider the squeezed middle classes of the west.

In opposing the cuts Labour mustn't allow themselves to become too closely associated with the benefit recipients losing out from cuts, or the trade unions striking against them (hence, of course, Ed Miliband's focus on the «squeezed middle»)

Ed started talking about the squeezed middle at the start of his leadership and everybody ridiculed him.

Affordable houses OK fine should help the squeezed middle class will do sod all for the young married couple on the min wage or the four or five million people labour let in or the polish people unless they are middle class, so council houses are out in Milibands Newer labour.

This is not, repeat not, the «squeezed middle», who are people on lower incomes.

The reality is that the middle income tax payer is actually the highest taxed sector in relative terms, so why on earth, even if you want to raise taxes, would you go after the «squeezed middle» yet again?

RM: This is an agenda to help the «squeezed middle» that could have been outlined by the former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

First, on the «squeezed middle», which, like Cameron's «broken society», captures public anxiety about the future.

Once these two things had been done Cameron would be free to do what will be necessary to win the next election and devise policies for that group of voters that Ed Miliband correctly called the squeezed middle.

Nor is there any evidence, as claimed by Blairites and the media, that Miliband's pro-cuts and «squeezed middle» Labour party was too leftwing for the public or ignored «aspirational» voters — as if all voters weren't aspirational.

We have lost contact with the squeezed middle.»

Those «calmly persistent» types, also known as the strivers, squeezed middle, and alarm clock Britons, are up for grabs, but to win in 2015, Labour need to look further.

Globalisation has dramatically increased the power of capital over labour, with workers at the bottom of the pile and even the «squeezed middle» coming under huge pressure.

Ed Miliband does have a strategic sense of where he wishes to take the party, but needs to build on his arguments about the squeezed middle to articulate how he believes the party's public argument, as well as its organisation, should change.

The problems faced by the «squeezed middle», on low and middle incomes, who feel that the rewards of working hard are too little compared to those whose stellar salaries are not matched by results.

We can not deliver for the squeezed middle, revive the British promise or deliver strong communities without building an economy which looks and feels very different, with more opportunities to get better jobs.

Yet the existence of the «squeezed middle» is a symptom that he did not finish the job.

When markets falter and banks fail it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed middle that are hit the hardest.

The result is a one - moral - size - fits - all approach which will resonate well with his target audience, the «squeezed middle».

Shouldn't we be focusing on living standards and the squeezed middle more?

The problems faced by the more vulnerable yesterday are increasingly confronting the «squeezed middle» today.

His «squeezed middle» won OED's 2011 Word of the Year.

And the 15 % who don't are precisely the Daily Mail's «hard - working, squeezed middle classes» — the people the Tories and the right - wing press are constantly trying to whip up into a frenzy about how they're paying through the nose to fund a bunch of scroungers.

He was pressed on whether he would consider joining student protests and his definition of the «squeezed middle».

Sticking up for SDNVs is not an alternative to courting aspirational voters in the «squeezed middle» — wisely the theme of Ed Miliband's first speech as leader.

Then maybe you're thinking of the «squeezed middle», the phrase that Ed Miliband used over and over again in the run - up to the last general election.

The Tories are, as with most of their proposed cuts, using the opportunity to portray the recipients of housing benefit as the undeserving poor, to be contrasted with and despised by the squeezed middle.

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

«We have heard about the squeezed middle and «one nation» Labour, but it isn't clear what that means.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

To them it is as if squeezed middle families have no serious problems worth worrying about.

What Ed Miliband calls the «squeezed middle» are not thought to be substantially affected by any of the changes, despite Mr Osborne having at least an extra # 5 billion to play with.

While many Labour voices reject virtually any changes to the welfare state, squeezed middle voters care deeply about welfare reform.

«So far, Ed Miliband's talk of the «squeezed middle» has resonated, but he has not done enough to explain what is causing the squeeze on living standards, or what might be done about it.

Each of these things are felt very strongly by squeezed middle voters.

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

Fundamentally, squeezed middle voters do not think that Labour is on their side.

[67] In January 2014 Miliband extended the concept of reform to include the «big five» banks, in addition to the «big six» utility companies, and discussed the impact of the cost - of - living on the «squeezed middle» saying «the current cost - of - living crisis is not just about people on tax credits, zero - hour contracts and the minimum wage.

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The problem I have with ludicrous terms like the «squeezed middle «is nearly everyone thinks they are part of the squeezed middle.

I am a classic example of the squeezed middle.

Lots of stuff about the centre ground of politics and the «squeezed middle», which says to me he's going for the same few thousand swing voters that Blair and New Labour did, and forget about the rest of us.

The party must show that it understands the concerns of the «squeezed middle» on tax, law and order, public spending and welfare, conveying a coherent sense of how Labour would govern Britain.

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

That is where the squeezed middle comes from.

Ed Miliband has taken a more robust stance, but there are few radical moves to compliment the rhetoric of a «squeezed middle».

Ed Miliband's «squeezed middle» phrase has been chosen as «word of the year» by Oxford University Press in the UK and US.

New polling by Penn, Schoen Berland and economic analysis by Frontier Economics shows that the «squeezed middle» is a misnomer.

The strategy is designed to drive out higher - cost producers of heavy oil and shale, whose rapid development is squeezing Middle East crude out of the huge U.S. market and threatens to eat into its share of other lucrative growth markets.

The Conservative plan is to squeeze the middle class hard, cutting child tax credits for families on total household incomes over # 31,000, and scraping child trust funds for all but the poorest families.