Civil servants Quote by Jeremy Corbyn

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

— Nicola Sturgeon

If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election

— Len McCluskey

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

Schools unable to keep their lights on and their doors open for the full working week is just the latest bleak instalment of a…

— David Olusoga

The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a…

— Wes Streeting

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.…

— Gerald Celente

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem,…

— Frances O'Grady

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.

— John Tiffany

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

— Todd Young