Sentences with word «swingeing»

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.
Hamilton immortalised his dealer in his Pop Art masterpiece Swingeing London 67, a screen print of a famous news image in which Fraser is handcuffed to Mick Jagger inside a police van, following their appearance in court on drugs charges.
In 1819, the government introduced harsh new laws, the «Six Acts», which prohibited possession of weapons by civilians, introduced wide search and seizure powers, restricted public meetings, increased penalties for blasphemy and sedition, and imposed swingeing taxes on pamphlets and periodicals.
«The government should rethink these plans and instead of pressing ahead with a programme of swingeing cuts invest in jobs, public services and close the # 120 billion annual tax gap.»
But Cable said he changed his mind and backed the hike to 20 per cent along with swingeing cuts because senior officials in the Bank of England had told him there was a «serious threat» to the economy.
But Mr Blair may well feel less well disposed to a more distant Liberal Democrat who is likely to make his mark in the leadership campaign with swingeing attacks on Labour.
Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.
Plans announced last week to make swingeing cuts to the hours of science taught in the National Curriculum have left the Royal Society and other science and engineering bodies angry and dismayed.
Ofgem is already stamping out bad doorstep practices that lead to energy mis - selling, with the guilty companies suffering swingeing fines.
The resulting teacher supply crisis forms part of a wider systemic crisis, currently exacerbated by swingeing funding cuts.
Fraser is probably best known for being immortalised his dealer in by the late Richard Hamilton in his Pop Art masterpiece Swingeing London 67, a screen print of a famous news image in which Fraser is handcuffed to Mick Jagger inside a police van, following their appearance in court on drugs charges.
Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.
Would Jeremy Hunt have succeeded in imposing such swingeing cuts upon the NHS if he hadn't depicted various people with varying levels of need — you know, people dying of cancer, that sort of thing - as «burdens»?
Attacking the public sector and implementing swingeing cuts was never the right approach.
Finally, the costs protection currently on offer will be withdrawn in most cases, exposing anyone bringing judicial review proceedings to swingeing costs if they lose.
A rise in National Insurance contributions may not be popular but it is necessary — unless a hefty Vat rise is to be put in its place or even bigger swingeing cuts of public services.»
I had to instigate swingeing budget cuts and redundancies to avoid bankruptcy at the Labour party.
However ministers face a tough battle to achieve this, particularly in an atmosphere of swingeing public sector cuts.
But even so, some of the departments facing swingeing cuts.
What they need to do is make themselves relevent by offering better deals to authors, sticking to their promises and abandoning swingeing contracts that take all rights and try to restrict what the author can do in the future.
The reality is that cutting emissions by 80 % as this government has committed itself to doing will require swingeing cuts in all sorts of areas.
They are cited worldwide to justify swingeing fossil fuel taxes and subsidies for «renewable» energy.
Finally, Jackson LJ said he advocated against further legal aid cuts and was dismayed when «swingeing cutbacks» were introduced on the same day as his reforms.
Almost singlehandedly, he kept law centres alive in Wandsworth after swingeing Tory cuts in the 1980s.
The government is refusing to back down on its plans to overhaul the country's legal aid system, despite swingeing attacks from MPs and stakeholders.
The new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Liz Truss, appeared before the House of Commons Justice Committee on 7 September and was asked about swingeing cuts to legal aid by Labour MP Rupa Huq.
Legal Aid Practitioners Group chairman Roy Morgan says: «These are more swingeing cuts than we anticipated.
, British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness.
Though some of his proposals may prove contentious - for example, swingeing taxes on alcohol to fund treatments for drug addicts - his case for strengthening family structures is compelling.
If we match up councils authority by authority, we see that Liberal Democrat and Conservative authorities are protecting the front line, but under Labour authorities the front line is the first one to go, the voluntary sector is the first one to go and the most swingeing cuts are the first thing to happen.
Winston Peters» swingeing attack on Fonterra boss Theo Spierings» $ 8.3 million pay packet could be the first real salvo in his self - advertised campaign to «clean up corporate New Zealand».
As ever, when talk arises of swingeing cuts, there are perfectly good quangos which do a good job and provide value for money.
The answer to this which Thomas LJ emphasised is that the penalties to be imposed upon a company which fails to selfreport will be swingeing if not potentially ruinous.
This month marks the three - year anniversary of the implementation of the most swingeing cuts to the legal aid scheme since it was introduced in 1949.
A CVA, a type of insolvency process that allows companies to shut stores and drive down rents, could lead to swingeing cuts to the retailer's 59 - strong store estate and trigger hundreds of job losses.
Only weeks ahead of its swingeing late April downgrade, the company had soothed investors that changing regulations in China would not have a material impact on Murray Goulburn's business.
If the yelling makes someone else take a swing, that's on the swinger, not the swingee.
They imposed a swingeing transfer tax and rules limiting foreign players midway through last season and Villas - Boas was twice banned for minor indiscretions.
Under their funding formula there will be swingeing cuts in support for 16 -18-year-olds, while cash to learners who are over the age of 24 and live in the most affluent areas, will go up.
With the major political parties fighting over who is in the best position to make the swingeing cuts necessary to help fix our ailing economy, not enough attention is being paid to the question of how we become profitable again.
«However, this year alone, at least 200,000 applicants will miss out on a university place or a high quality work - based apprenticeship as a result of the Coalition Government's swingeing cuts.
What may, however, are his swingeing words on material inequality.
In an article for the Sunday Mirror, the professor warned that Osborne's swingeing cuts package was taking «unnecessary risks» with the economy.
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