Bertrand Audoin
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Maria Miller
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Damian Collins
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David Burrowes MP
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Gabriel Byng
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Austerity has become the operating system of the Western world. As we move from credit crunch to spending crunch, every day brings us a new move to reduce government debt and keep corporations afloat, and every day it becomes clearer that ordinary citizens are paying the price.
On a sleety December day in Wakefield or Wigan, Weston-super-Mare or Wisbech, a walk down the high street amid hard-up Christmas shoppers is a long way from most people's idea of a good time.
It's enough to make you gag on your value mince pies. Barely a week after Mary 'Queen of Shops' Portas to save the high street, we learned that there are enough supermarkets in the planning pipeline to swallow every Tesco store in the country.
