(UK PM) Cameron warns of decade of austerity

[alp227]

Source: Financial Times

Britain’s austerity programme could last up to a decade – five years more than previously expected – as the eurozone crisis drags on, prime minister David Cameron said.

The coalition government had hoped to implement all its public spending cuts before the next election in 2015, but in an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Thursday, Mr Cameron said it was now hard to predict when they would finish.

“I don’t see a time when difficult spending choices are going to go away,” he told the newspaper.

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Telegraph interview: "David Cameron: no end in sight for austerity"

[progressivebydesign]

1. Only for the 99% of the world. the rest of them are building car elevators.

I'm so tired of the redistribution of wealth globally, that has plunged so many people into poverty. The money did NOT disappear, it is consolidated into the hands of a few. Sick of the rich leadership telling the 99% they have to tighten their belts, and ignoring the fact that the money IS there, but people (even in the UK and Greece) are amassing fortunes and paying a fraction of what they should.

[deutsey]

2. In another decade, they'll be saying it's going to be yet another 10 years

And they'll keep doing that until all of us serfs know our proper place in the world and have stopped pestering our betters with such silly questions.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. They could do things like, oh, I don't know, stop pretending

that they still need a military force sufficient for maintaining a global empire.