![]() ![]() That much has been clear from (at the very latest) May 24, 2010, the day that Osborne and David Laws announced £6 billion of market-calming spending cuts. Those who demand a “growth strategy” from the Coalition have not been listening: austerity is, and has always been, its fons et origo. Cameron, Osborne and Clegg took a very big decision in May 2010 about the best path back to prosperity - declaring that deficit reduction would deliver the economic stability and market approval which were (they argued) the precondition of all else. It is the pulpy compound of mass psychology, global forces, monetary policy, fiscal strategy, entrepreneurial zeal, educational adaptability, workforce culture and a thousand other factors. What a helpful bunch they are.Įconomic growth is not willed into being by butch rhetoric. But plenty of her colleagues are weighing in with sternly worded advice to the Prime Minister: spend less, tax less, listen to the Lib-Dems less, be more like Boris. SPONSORED Stepping up to the challenge of decarbonising the Square Mileįew Tory backbenchers go as far as Nadine Dorries, the Mid-Bedfordshire MP, who has publicly warned Cameron that his days are numbered unless he shapes up. Susan Hall named as Conservative Party’s London mayoral candidate.Johnny Mercer will ‘soon be history’, says Keir Starmer after Inbetweeners jibe.Starmer posts leaflets in Bedfordshire to maintain by-election momentum. ![]() On the Right, tax-cutters demand quick-fix stimuli of a different sort. On the Left, Keynesians taunt George Osborne with what they claim to be Obama’s economic strategy. Though the reality is much more nuanced, it is already commonplace to claim that austerity is being comprehensively rejected by the electorates of Europe. ![]() New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTįirst, Cameron and Clegg are now routinely accused of wilful exceptionalism on the global stage. ![]()
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