Sentences with phrase «dems were the party to»

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Tim Farron's party has reaped the rewards since becoming the country's leading anti-Brexit party, including a stunning victory in December's by - election in Richmond Park, where the Tory to Lib Dem swing was a huge 21.73 %.

Message to Black Men and Women: The Dem party is not your friend... these minions think you are not smart enough to make your own decisions and will continue LIE to you to feed their evil agenda and will keep you down - and dependent.

Lib Dem candidate for Mitcham and Morden, Claire Mathys says her party would use the foreign aid budget carefully, explaining: «It needs to be for aid.

Now, before some of you exhibit the republican knee - jerk effect (and in all fairness the dems have their own version), exclaiming how I blow the things out of proportion, or that equating economic sanctions with abortion is not only wrong, but evil, or how easy it is to just play the race card, remember this: You do not serve a political party, but God.

Message to Hispanics, Blacks + Unsuspecting Women: The Dem party (of today) is not your friend... the leftist agenda is to keep you stupid and dependent... unable to make your own decisions and create your own wealth (I.e. jobs, economy).

You can register for any one of dozens of political parties in the U.S., but to vote in the primaries, you must be either Dem.

The only way they can hold the existing party together is to hope for an evolution in thought over the next 4 years, producing a more socially liberal base (possible... but won't happen quickly) or to have some other very large even occur which puts the dems in such a bad light as to lift the pressure (possible, but won't reverse the social trends).

Everyone in the Dem party is likely to be liberal.

MPs are currently debating the Lisbon treaty and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg confirmed yesterday his party would use the opportunity to push for a wider debate on Britain's role in Europe.

Although speculating that the approaches from his main political rivals represented the «latest wheeze by Labour and the Tories to take the best of Lib Dem ideas and call them their own,» Mr Clegg said he was willing to work with other parties on constitutional reform.

After his Daily Mail and Telegraph interviews earlier this week urging the party not to lurch left and calling for a potential ban on face veils, there will be some Lib Dem members who wish he would.

Lib Dem policy - passed by a relatively small number of party delegates in a conference hall - didn't matter very much when the party seemed destined to be permanently in opposition.

Some senior Lib Dem sources have expressed private discomfort with the ban, but have not been willing to come out express their opposition to the move in public, although the presence of party support for the EDM may make them think again.

We can't retire those Lib Dem Peers so the only way to create proportionality is to increase the number of Peers from other parties.

«I'm a Lib Dem, it's virtually compulsory to hug passing gays,» protests the party leader, «but they don't do benders in East Anglia.»

Farron's staunch defence of the Lib Dem record and his fullsome praise of Clegg could lead one to conclude that perhaps the party leader and the former president are best mates after all.

The Lib Dem majority in Eastleigh is 3,864, but with the coalition seen as increasingly toxic and Huhne's court case top of voters» minds, the party is likely to face a bloodbath in the Hampshire seat.

Norman is presenting a motion at the Lib Dem spring conference calling the party to support a regulated cannabis market.

Yes we're all private citizens only you're paid by the Dem party to write lies here and then you use multiple names to write supporting comments to yourself.

Being face to face with the Lib Dems» campaigning and local government record does not make for a friendly disposition to their party, and we all know that - as with, say, elections in London or Scotland - will force us to seek out Lib Dem support if we're to win elections.

And there are three reasons why they are likely to attempt to stick to this position: they know there are dangers in policy U-turns (think Lib Dem commitments to oppose student fees); commitment to the renewal of Trident is entrenched in some parts of the party, even if key members of the leadership understand the downsides; and it would be seen as weakness if they succumbed to pressure from smaller parties with less credibility and electoral support.

The Lib Dem leader will need to offer his party bigger prizes if he's to convince them of the wisdom of joining the coalition.

«Sunder Katwala, the general secretary of the Fabian society and a signatory of the statement confirmed that the specific references to The Labour party and its bloggers was due to concerns that a more general code would in some way burden Green, Lib Dem and other non-Labour bloggers with the current reputation problems faced by both the Government and labour blogs.

A new poll of his Sheffield constituency found the Lib Dem leader is set to lose his seat to Labour, in what would be a historic moment for the party.

He claimed the party was failing to come up with new or «dangerous» policy ideas and warned that British politics is being «disfigured» by Lib Dem weakness.

Conference is a way to respect and thank the hundreds of Lib Dem activists who campaign for the party's policies all the year round and hold leadership and government ministers to account.

Over the many years (since the late 1970s) during which I've gone to Liberal and Lib Dem conferences, from Margate to Dundee via many stops in between in Bournemouth, Brighton and Harrogate, crucial party positions have been decided at our conferences.

David Miliband has backed Nick Clegg on his Twitter / Facebook, the party have banned leaflets exposing Lib Dem policy from being delivered, the party continues to focus attacks only on the Tories while leaking support rapidly to the Lib Dems, and now this.

Back in the day, attacks on «loopy» Lib Dem policies on drugs were a cornerstone of Labour's approach to the party.

In private, Lib Dem policy wonks would look a bit bemused and sort of accept that, yes, perhaps, maybe the party's policy of abolishing the CTF wasn't right, but the party had to stick with it to «make the figures add up» and that, «after the election», there would be a rethink.

The party will need to get behind this and claim it as the Lib Dem success it is.

Explaining his party's opposition to the draft Communications Data Bill in 2013, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said a «law which means there will be a record kept of every website you visit, who you communicate with on social media sites» would not happen when his party was in government.

Over the past two years, Nick Clegg and his advisers have been determinedly trying to focus the Lib Dem vote down to those who would vote for a European style social and economic liberal party, a triumphant strategy which has been reflected in the opinion polls.

Those who considered voting Lib Dem but decided not to were more likely to think the party did the right thing by entering a coalition with the Conservatives (55 %) than those who did vote Lib Dem (49 %).

The Social Liberal Forum (SLF), the biggest left of centre pressure group inside the party, is pressing Mr Clegg and other Lib Dem ministers to make changes after a wholesale review of the Coalition's approach to welfare.

In a party political broadcast to be aired during the Lib Dem conference, he says: «There is no easy way to say this: we made a pledge.

Would local Labour Parties suddenly be expected to cheer on the Lib Dem councils whose cuts had hurt working class people?

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, whose party is backing strikes, said it was the «toughest call I've ever had to make».

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This tells us a lot about how the party is presenting the policy to the general voter, who, I suspect, rarely consults the Lib Dem website or bothers to read a Nick Clegg speech in full.

The Lib Dem leader insisted everything in his policy programme was fully costed - claiming it was the first time any party had provided such comprehensive figures to back it up.

Vote shares for the four biggest parties remain unchanged since last week, with the Tories on 30 %, Labour on 29 %, UKIP on 16 % and the Liberal Democrats holding on to their 10 %, a result which party president Tim Farron joked was causing champagne corks to pop at Lib Dem HQ last week.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

... Senior Labour and Lib Dem figures have remained committed to genuine centre - left dialogue even as party relations have deteriorated, though most believe the form any progressive realignment would take is now a post-election question.

Earlier this week, the former Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott, who was expelled from the party after his attempted coup against Nick Clegg, donated # 10,000 to Green MP Caroline Lucas.

As a Lib Dem MP, Mr Laws would normally have turned to his own party machine for help during the crisis, but the Lib Dems soon found that Coulson was the man giving advice.

Lib Dem voters who feel betrayed by their party's surrender to Cameron are hardly going to respond by voting Tory.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

The Lib Dem desire to be taken seriously means there we weren't subjected to the dulcet tones of Keane, or any other band at the launch of the party's manifesto today - to the great relief, I suspect, of just about everyone in the room.

If people feel so strongly that despite there wish to vote Lib Dem of Green they wish to support the Labour Party on the basis that they hate the Conservatives they are at liberty to do so (too much Liberty which a PR HOL would address).