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today’s threats at a time of austerity.Let’s be clear, some cuts to defence budgets may
stands for.Austerity.We have had nine months of the British economy flat on its back
, austere view of the future. Now I have absolutely no doubt that reducing the deficit is vital for
poverty?The reason Nick Clegg thinks we can’t do both is because of the austerity agenda
austerity plan was working, just four months before they slid back into recession.After months of
austerity and unemployment we have.But for me, I want to be clear: our future lies in the
.It has no sense of ambition. All it knows is austerity.And it has no
message yesterday? “You call it austerity, I call it efficiency.”So here it is from the Prime
didn’t win the election. And now this Government’s determination to focus on austerity at the
criticising their deficit strategy, I’m criticising them for having a pessimistic, austere vision for
in response to the recent euro crisis.And a broader pro-growth and anti-austerity agenda
somehow says look; all I can promise you is an age of austerity. All I can promise you is a sense
domestic growth and UK austerity is set to be extended. In short, budgetary restraint is
austerity is not working for working people across Europe.And it is harmful for our
are many councils run by other political parties who are delivering in times of austerity. Cornwall
-dip recession made in Downing Street. And still David Cameron says ‘you call it austerity
economic plan becomes clear with the years of austerity and uncertainty stretching on into the
and Poor’s said this year, ‘austerity alone risks becoming self-defeating’.Many of you
education reform. It is even more important in a time of financial austerity. Imagine, for a
across the world bringing austerity to many, destabilising the Eurozone and threatening the growth which
