When the celebrations die down in the Labour club bars of Sheffield and Hull tonight, the sober reality will kick in: that they might well have been dealt a harsh cuts hand by the government, but they are the ones who now have to play it.
Donald Trump's latest budget proposal outlined a host of harsh cuts that targeted mainly the poor, his EPA has worked to abdicate its responsibility to ensure the nation has clean air and water, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being dismantled from the inside, and Trump's congressional allies want to make it harder for poor people especially children and the elderly to eat.
A groaning atonal soundtrack, full of rising polyphonic crescendos and harsh cuts, provides a heartbeat of horror that pulses through a film that wears its influences on its sleeve.
First, to help close a $2.6 billion budget deficit and avoid harsh cuts, she shocked and angered the conservative flank that had buoyed her by pushing for a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax.
He proposes similar harsh cuts in food stamps, saving a further $130 billion or so, plus a grab-bag of other cuts, such as reduced aid to college students.
On Monday, President Obama will call for a significant increase in spending, reversing the harsh cuts of the past few years.
If you like, Cameron/Osborne are imposing harsh cuts to deal with a fiscal crisis that exists only in their minds, while failing to address a current crisis of inadequate demand that falls into their statistical blind spot.
At a time when schools are languishing under harsh cuts to state education funding, that the Race to the Top program this year is, for the first time, open to individual districts presents an opportune challenge.
In September, Syriza renewed its mandate by promising harsh cuts but financial stability, a steady and responsible management of the economy that would limit the country's debt at the small price of any hope for the future.
With a bit of luck, some creative accounting, and harsh cuts.
