For these people will be declaring that, if there is to be austerity, it will be conducted on their own terms and will require all sections of society to make proportionately equal sacrifices.
There will be genocidal austerity.
Few councils will be as austerity bites.
Even with the effective default on deposits, Cyprus will need a huge loan from the troika, and the condition for this loan will be harsh austerity.
Europe will be pursuing austerity, China is trying to rein in bank lending but America has opted for another fiscal stimulus.
No amount of dressing should deceive us; there will be more austerity for the public sector, whoever gets into power next time round.
The starting point will be the austerity measures on which Mr. Socrates failed to secure an agreement in the Portuguese Parliament before he was forced to ask for a bailout.
If Washington doesn't agree to raise the debt limit there will be fiscal austerity amounting to nearly $1 trillion next year!
Theirs will be an austerity-conscious wedding, ostentatiously so.
He came to power on anti-austerity rhetoric but must now decide how to sell the nation what many commentators predict will be an unavoidable austerity plan for France.
