50 Quotes About Austerity

The austerity choice was made long ago by British government that inequality is a price worth paying for growth.

The UK government took banker debt and made it our debt while letting bankers off. Then told us: You're living beyond your means.

British values sounds like a bargain bin conscience for those who can't afford to spend more energy and time on their humanity.

British government have always sold poverty as a character flaw rather than the fault of a society where the elite benefit and the rest make do.

Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly enduring unemployment -- suppression of wages for the majority, and deepening income inequality.

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.

South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a tractor racing across another, raking up a dust cloud behind in a brown jet stream.

Despite claims that these radical policy changes were driven by fiscal conservatism...the reality is that government was not reducing the amount of money devoted to the management of the urban poor. It was radically altering what the funds would be used for....Funding that had once been once used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction.

Is this a holy thing to see,In a rich and fruitful land,Babes reduced to misery,Feed with cold and usurous hand?Is that trembling cry a song?Can it be a song of joy?And so many children poor?It is a land of poverty!And their sun does never shine,And their fields are bleak & bare,And their ways are fill'd with thorns;It is eternal winter there.For where-e'er the sun does shine,And where-e'er the rain does fall,Babe can never hunger there,Nor poverty the mind appall.