Sentences with phrase «timed austerity policies»

The impact on UK growth has so far been negligible, and these ill - timed austerity policies have created a mood of pessimism and rising public discontent.

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«The UK government will effectively be asking taxpayers to pay a Westminster premium to crowbar a modern parliament into a Victorian building at a time of austerity when Tory policy is hitting some of the poorest in society, and political uncertainty when this UK government has no plan for the UK outside the European Union.»

«This issue has now gone beyond Stephen Hester, this is about a prime minister who promised to rein in excess and says to the country in a time of austerity, when his economic policies have choked off growth, that we are all in it together - how hollow is his rhetoric in light of what we have just seen today.

For the left, the Party and the broader labour movement, now is the time to unite behind the Labour campaign, andstart to popularise policies that present real solutions to the cost of living crisis and a positive alternative to the Tories» ideologically driven austerity.

There will be time enough to steer the heart of the party later but, for the moment, we must accept that our leftwards shift has failed and that we now urgently need to move forwards - because time is a luxury that those suffering under this government's dogma - driven policies of cuts and austerity simply can not afford.

And Alexander today in a policy motion speech to conference certainly did his damnedest to defend the coalition, opposing an amendment to his «Generating Growth and Jobs in a Time of Austerity» motion to abandon the coalition's fiscal mandate.

The mansion tax of Vince Cable is a progressive tax policy that is very much needed during this time of austerity.

This time around, nobody is in any doubt — not least because Labour helpfully remind people at every opportunity — that the austerity drive that has helped keep the markets» confidence in the Britain has been a deliberate policy.

A move against this policy may also be a move against the Tory leader, at a time when the Leveson Inquiry edges ever closer to No 10's doorstep, Labour climb in the polls and the European growth versus austerity argument looks to isolate the prime minister.

At the same time, these powers will not give the Scottish parliament the power to defend itself against Westminster austerity measures, and certainly not the full control over macroeconomic policy it would need to tackle poverty, inequality and other significant social policy challenges.

I want to make the committee an extremely active player in science policy, particularly in terms of how to stretch the science research dollars at a time of obvious austerity, and reauthorize both NASA and the Commercial Space Act so that the two are coordinated.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Since the imposition of austerity policies on Portuguese society, I face a worse social situation in this small country, probably the poorest in Europe, every time I go back there.