The phrase "an alternative to the austerity of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different approaches or options that contrast with austerity measures in economic or policy contexts.
Example: "The government proposed an alternative to the austerity of previous budgets, focusing instead on investment in public services."
Alternatives: "a substitute for the austerity of" or "an option against the austerity of".
The optimism they helped convey on the party's behalf, which lay behind the "white heat" speech at Scarborough, offered an alternative to the austerity of the postwar years and would serve to end Labour's 13 years in parliamentary opposition.
Portugal's opposition leader Antonio Costa has ended months of near silence on his party's policies, with proposals that seek to present his Socialist party (PS) as an alternative to the austerity of the right-of-centre governing coalition, ahead of this autumn's general election.
Colin Montgomery Edinburgh I challenge the assertion that Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement poses an alternative to the dogma of austerity.
Her party was successful in its call to be included in the televised election debates, where Ms Bennett offered "an alternative to the politics of austerity".
Now it's spread to Europe as a radical alternative to the austerity agenda.
She will say: Plaid Cymru is a very real alternative to the austerity consensus at Westminster.
At the end of the day there is no alternative to the austerity and the fiscal prudence that the European Union wants to see from its members.
Last week, 10 newly elected MPs demanded an "alternative to austerity" instead of a return to "the New Labour creed of the past".
Tellingly, he borrowed a favourite phrase of Peter Mandelson, and likened the yearning for an alternative to austerity as the equivalent of saying "stop the world, I want to get off".
Financially ailing Greece would do well to consider this as an alternative to some of the austerity measures that are provoking unrest and disruptions.
As an alternative to endless austerity, some politicians in the region have begun to see the economic potential of policies to help close the gap.
