Sentences with phrase «with swingeing»

In his strategy for bringing down British carbon dioxide emissions by 60 over cent over the coming 50 years, Barker envisages phasing out all British value - added taxes and replacing them with a swingeing carbon tax.

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.

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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»?

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.

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.

In an article for the Sunday Mirror, the professor warned that Osborne's swingeing cuts package was taking «unnecessary risks» with the economy.

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.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

Ofgem is already stamping out bad doorstep practices that lead to energy mis - selling, with the guilty companies suffering swingeing fines.

In 1969, Hamilton appeared in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, in which he discussed the Swingeing London series and his preoccupation with mass media through a selection of his own work.

, 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.

Fraser, though, who had hung out with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the late 60s, and is the subject, alongside a handcuffed Mick Jagger, of Richard Hamilton's famous painting, Swingeing London, was one of its bohemian aristocrats.

From the 1960s Hamilton was represented by Robert Fraser and produced a series of prints entitled «Swingeing London» based on Fraser's arrest, along with Mick Jagger, for possession of drugs.

You refuse to move past your obsession with wind and solar subsidies and insist on it with many and varied swingeing prevarications.

Recently, however, the SAS has suffered a swingeing cut in this support with only limited meeting expenses being provided by the Law Society.