How Austerity Broke Britain

Austerity in the United Kingdom and its legacy

This paper explores how the disastrous consequences of the pandemic were exacerbated by the implementation of an austerity programme.

Austerity timeline - Life on the Breadline - Coventry University

In October 2009, the UK government began austerity policies with large scale public funding cuts. Now ten years later, there are debates over whether austerity ...

Austerity: There is an alternative and the UK can afford to deliver it

Given this, it is unsurprising that austerity has also failed to deliver in terms of its fiscal objectives, with the government pushing back and ...

Why 'Broken Britain' is a direct consequence of intergenerational ...

At least £241 billion (around 20%) of current government spending (i.e. your taxes) is not paying for public services but is instead being ...

Austerity Bites 10 Years On - Bristol University Press

Austerity Bites 10 Years On - A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK; With new commentary, Austerity Bites 10 Years On assesses on the true scale of ...

Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman on X ...

Austerity broke Britain …..

Jensen | Austerity Parenting: new economies of parent-citizenship

Poor Parenting and Broken Britain. Parents have long been a significant economic category for policymakers, governments, employers, social workers and public ...

Austerity in the UK: past, present and future - LSE Blogs

Taking account of such factors, the OBR estimated that 2% of GDP was lost due to austerity policies (1% in 2010-11 and in 2011-12). This is ...

Broken Britain - Magzter

But today, after 12 years of austerity programs enforced by successive Conservative governments in London, “not only can the school not afford ...

Austerity kills prisoners in England

In response to global economic recession, the UK embraced austerity in May 2010, shortly after the coalition government took office. To cover ...

Labour's October Budget Risks Return to Austerity, Campaigners Warn

According to the Equality Trust, the rules prioritise short-term spending cuts over long-term investment, trapping the UK in a vicious cycle of ...

NHS 'broken' by past government, Keir Starmer tells BBC

The NHS in England has been "broken" by successive Conservative-led ... He said austerity in the coalition years, and then the ...

£10200: How much worse off Britons are after 14 years of Tory rule

What's behind Britain's economic struggles? ... A primary culprit has been the UK's weak productivity growth since the 2007/08 financial crisis.

The Broken Economic Model and the Inhumanity of the Lost Decade ...

'The outcome of austerity policies in Britain and elsewhere has become painfully clear: increased child poverty and social misery; declining ...

Economy speech delivered by David Cameron - GOV.UK

Now, of course, there are plenty of people out there with different advice about how to fix our broken economy. Some say cut more and borrow ...

How the Tories drove Britain's local services into bankruptcy

But the drastic decisions that local authorities are making now are just the tip of the iceberg. Austerity has been biting since 2010, when ...

Breaking Britain's Working Class: the Left Out |

Since 2010 they are being subject to harsh cuts in their welfare benefits and also social goods through austerity policy linked to the banking ...

Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy - SpringerLink

He argues that austerity is geared towards a resurrection of financialisation and the UK's pre-crisis economic model, through the transformation of ...

Why a disillusioned, angry Britain voted for change - POLITICO.eu

For this is not a story of Britain lurching to the left. This is a story about something deeper — about broken promises and broken trust; about ...

Mortality rates among men and women: impact of austerity

The authors of the study also argued the impact of austerity had disproportionately affected women in the UK because they are more likely to be ...