Sentences with phrase «when austerity»

The «No to AV» campaign claims that, at a time when austerity is governing government spending, the country should not waste money on the «alternative vote» proposal.

Such stories understandably leave a bitter taste at a time when the austerity agenda has severely strained the UK's own public services.

Their central argument is that when austerity and Conservative governance have been intertwined, namely in the 1930s and 1980s, both Baldwin and Mrs Thatcher respectively presented their Tory prescriptions for recovery as «common sense».

(May previously served as U.K. home secretary, when austerity budgets limited funding for national police.)

Not exact matches

It is easy to support the IMF's teachings when they show the austerity drive of the governing party you're are trying to beat is bad for the economy.

I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

Spain recently revealed more austerity in its 2013 budget, which will likely have to be modified to include deeper cuts when over-optimistic macroeconomic growth assumptions don't materialize.

The Greeks lived large borrowing in euros, which Germany backed with its sterling credit, and then challenged Germany's demands for harsh austerity when it ran into financial problems.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

In response to a journalist's question, the governor says he agrees with the view consumers are facing high debt loads today because they filled in the debt - accumulation void left when governments turned to austerity by shutting down stimulus measures to address fallout from the 2008 financial crisis.

On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.

Government austerity after the 1994 Peso crisis cut national deficits and debt, leaving it well - positioned when the 2008 crisis hit.

Second in an era of extraordinarily low interest rates and slow growth, it is becoming increasingly clear that progressives do best when they reject austerity and embrace public investment.

When the promised prosperity fails to materialize, the austerity lobby argues that the problem is simply that monetarist policies have not been followed intensively enough to «work their magic.»

You can't have democracy when debts grow beyond the ability to pay and the IMF imposes austerity, like it used to do in third world countries.

Austerity measures shouldn't be used when the economy is struggling to recover.

The draft legislation is the latest in a series of income cuts, tax hikes and reforms imposed on austerity - weary Greeks since 2010, when the debt crisis exploded that brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy and expulsion from the eurozone — the club of European Union countries that use the euro currency.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too This is inevitably followed by bursting into a German song about a fox stealing a goose (which suddenly somehow reminds me of austerity demands on Greece): «Fuchs du hast die Gans gestohlen, Gib sie wieder her!

And pushing for fiscal austerity even when unemployment is over 20 %.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

When assigning hurricane relief funds to communities across the country, the oversight board's austerity policies may also privilege wealthier at the expense of the most vulnerable, argues Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, also at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, who published an op - ed in the Huffington Post.

Even a Europhile would have to admit he's right when he claims Europe has too little solidarity and too much austerity.

It left them wide open to ridicule when contrasted with the austerity of the Cathar preachers.

This dualism reached its zenith in Western civilization when it combined with a puritan zeal that was thorough in removing beauty and fun from life in every aspect, in instituting and institutionalizing the repressive mentality, and in identifying Christianity with a strict moralism and a rigid austerity.

It is the same in Europe when confronted with «austerity» measures.

Li was appointed general manager of COFCO Wine & Wine, the wine and spirits importing arm of China's state - owned conglomerate COFCO, in 2014 when wine consumption in China was challenging amidst the country's austerity measures.

Sure, let's pretend we are not wealthy so we can claim austerity when we fail to acquire world class talent.

There was a notable period of austerity when they weren't quite the Yankees, but they've always been above - average, even in the down years.

We won titles, fa cups even a European trophy before Wenger so why won't we do it when he leaves Wenger was the best manager in the world for Arsenal during austerity.

You tore into Wenger for doing the same when all football logic told you that Arsenal should have at least once in the 10 years of financial austerity have dropped to mid table or worse.

«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.»

Those social democratic parties fortunate enough to have been in opposition when the crisis struck are struggling to find their feet and advance a credible alternative to austerity.

This subsidy will allow the Treasury to redirect its fiscal focus towards other areas, particularly at a time when the neoliberal politics of austerity are being constantly orchestrated.

Back when David Cameron was in opposition, he painted a very pretty picture of what Britain would look like under austerity.

«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.

Shockingly, the UK political establishment looks poised to loosen further what already looks like a very lax fiscal regime, at a time not only of straitened public finances and austerity (and a high burden of personal taxation), but also of extraordinarily high petroleum prices (2011 was the first year in history when the international price of crude averaged over 100 dollars per barrel, 2012 was the second, 2013 the third, and 2014 looks dead set to be the fourth).

Taking on two common anti-migrant tropes - «stress on public service» and «decreased wages» - Abbott identified that the real cause of these problems lay elsewhere: implementing austerity when investment was needed, and a «weakened trade union movement, and predatory employers» as the cause of decreased wages.

When Governor Cuomo faced a $ 10 billion budget deficit upon taking office in 2011, he pushed an austerity budget of cuts and caps to spending, taxes, and state workers, claiming, «I am a progressive who's broke.»

If he wins the leadership contest, he will have to argue against austerity at a time when it is generally believed that there is no money.

And he must think to himself — if he can't do it now, with a Tory right - winger in Downing Street during a period of austerity, when will he?

Mr Hale told Australian TV: «I saw the governor of the Bank of England last week when I was in London and he told me whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be.»

Is current or recent «austerity» in a class of its own when we put it into historical perspective, or is it part of an evolving pattern?

Yes, the very same institutions that are backing strikes and protests against ConDem austerity policies stood aside when it was suggested to Labour's three - day national policy forum in Milton Keynes that Labour should not stick with Tory spending cuts in 2015/16.

Not so long ago they heckled Theresa May when she told them that police officers would have to bear their share of the age of austerity.

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?

When Corbyn says he is against austerity and then votes against welfare cuts, Labour supporters understand that position and can choose to either back it or not.

In this climate of austerity and the need for public sector cuts, when so many are worried about the possibility that nurses, teachers and other such essential workers will be forced out of work as government tightens its belt, it is worth noting that # 2.8 billion of taxpayers» money was spent on consultancy fees in 2005 - 06 alone.

Now when the EU has embedded austerity, neo liberalism, deregulation and «flexible labour markets» in its essence, most left Labour STILL accept the wretched EU project even though it is decimating working class politics and livelihoods everywhere.

We will see how popular Tory austerity is when it is finally rolled out.

Its austerity policies inhibit growth and constantly pull down aggregate demand, and when as a result the budget deficit grows instead of falls, that is used as a pretext for another massive round of cuts (another # 9.8 bn in this year alone).