Sentences with phrase «did labour policies»

Friday 27 May, 2.30 pm Wales Stage, # 5 Polly Toynbee and David Walker - The Verdict Did Labour policies worsen the recession?

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Compared with previous episodes of booming commodity prices, a floating currency, a sound but flexible medium - term framework for monetary policy and a flexible labour market mean we are doing much better this time than in the mid 1970s or early 1950s.

I was sympathetic to the Alberta Party when it came out, but when I began to talk to members about issues concerning organized labour I found that they didn't have any policies.

As we've done in the past, a coalition of community and labour organizations worked together to develop a common list of policy asks.

I do think that we face some skills shortages down the road which create lots of opportunities for active labour market policy to be more effective.

Does child support policy affect male labour supply?

I didn't cover this in my paper but can see that it could be used to weed out candidates who oppose IHT and other key Labour policies.

If the Lib Dems did emerge as as an attractive progressive alternative - and they have been rowing in the opposite direction in some ways of late, e.g., on tax policy - that would put useful pressure on Labour to mend its ways.

But while one is raising money for charity, the other is calling out brands like Marks and Spencer and John Lewis for their pay policies — brands that the public love significantly more than they do Labour.

But Labour, it turns out, did not need to spell out any more on its Brexit policy.

And when I have challenged Lib Dem canvassers on the doorstep about the policy, I have met with a wall of ignorance: «Oh, I didn't know we were doing that, I'll have to go away and look it up...» (canvasser hastily retreats...) The CTF was one of the great liberal achievements of New Labour.

The shadow home secretary also pledged to properly centre the right to family life in Labour's immigration policy, saying her party «don't want to break up families from the EU in the way we currently do for non-EU families.»

When it comes to economic policy, Labour isn't too leftwing — but it does struggle to present an image of economic competence.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

While stating that the speech would not contain a great deal of new policy, it did nonetheless reiterate several policies that were either been in the 2017 Labour Manifesto or have been highlighted by Abbott in previous statements.

Does Ed Miliband honestly expect voters to derive Labour's economic policy from his list of cuts that he wouldn't make?

Do you mean things like re-democratising policy making in the Labour Party?

Raising the minimum wage, helping small businesses, and strengthening workers» rights are all backed by a majority of the public when they don't know these policies are Labour's.

Yet you can still see the potential for the SNP to push for policies that Labour might favour if it didn't have compete so hard on territory occupied by the Conservatives.

But to do real damage to the Labour Party in 2015, UKIP will have to change some of its policies.

Most people don't actually want an unreasonable and unfair fortress immigration policy; they just oppose that Labour «open door policy» which doesn't actually exist.

but it does give a clear indication that Labour have no real policy other than to stay in power.

All Labour seemed able to do was dismiss UKIP as a single - policy party.

The economic policies just didn't make sense and left the Labour unable to attack the Tories economic record.

The Labour Party too readily conflates rural policy with animal rights policy, sending the message that their votes aren't wanted to the 1.6 million people who shoot game, the 350,000 who do some sort of work on shooting estates and many of the 200,000 who work in agriculture.

Encouraging Labour members to help shape party policy, Corbyn said: «The media commentariat simply don't understand it.

The pamphlet — co-authored by Patrick Diamond, senior research fellow at Policy Network and former Downing street advisor, with Giles Radice, a Labour peer — revisits Radice's original work «Southern Discomfort» written in 1992 where he warned «Labour can not win without doing better in the South.»

But former Shadow Chancellor Chris Leslie, a long - standing critic of the Labour leader, said: «Would the Prime Minister agree that a policy if inaction also would have severe consequences and that those who would turn a blind eye, who would do nothing in pursuit of some moral high ground, should also be held accountable for once.»

«His half - hearted conversion to the policy does little to clear up Labour's dithering over higher education funding.»

Labour didn't win the election and since we don't have a Labour government the matter, according to thenational policy forum, is subject to continued assessment, and Corbyn is following the 2014 NPF consensus faithfully.

I do feel that Ed Miliband wants to move away from New Labour and Blairite policies.

He is surrounded by a Parliamentary Labour Party that largely doesn't support him or his policies, yet he received a massive mandate from those voting in the Labour Party leadership contest.

So when did Labour's policy on an EU referendum shift from opposition to abstention?

I posted on a thread about Labour the other day that I wouldn't vote Labour unless they supported the Chagos Islanders going home but I have to admit, I don't know what the Green Party policy is regarding them — Miss Berry, do you know?

To be frank his views made what should have been an easy decision into a difficult one.I don't trust Smith and will back Jeremy again but I am concerned.Having sensible views on immigration and defence is ethical and doesn't turn me into a raging right winger or closet racist and is probably in line with what most potential Labour voters want.I'd like to think that more will join our party and that Corbyn will continue democratizing it, giving us the opportunity to shape policy ourselves.

As a balanced budget law does not allow that investment, Labour would be opposed to the Tory policy.

Having failed to get the policies favoured by the left (for the most part and on the key issues) when in opposition, do you think that this will become easier when Labour is in government (and when the stakes are higher for the leadership)?

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Saying Stalin did more harm than good and Mao was the greatest bloke of the 20th century, wasn't exactly, great PR for Tony Benn when he was dictating labour policies in the early 80's was it,

According to the Labour movement, the party lost because voters did not fully appreciate what it had achieved, they were influenced by the right - wing media, and although Labour had the right policies, it did not manage to communicate them effectively.

Ed Miliband has signalled a change in Labour's immigration policy by disclosing he wants to change the economic rules to do more to help people already living and working in Britain.

«I don't think we can go on having policy made by the leader, shadow cabinet, or parliamentary Labour party.

Whatever their merits as policy arguments, localism and empowerment do not offer a banner under which Labour could march towards the sound of electoral gunfire within the year.

of course two wrongs don't make a right, you can not defend Tory housing policy by putting forward the argument that Labour

The discussions do not need to lead to a firm policy programme, but we need to find out what views on Labour's future direction exist within the Labour Movement so we can then have a meaningful leadership contest in which the candidates and those voting understand each other.

The lesson of the election is that Labour can't and mustn't be a party which only does community campaigning at election time, or that sees changes in central government policy as the only way to persuade people to support them.

In exchange for party X giving Labour their votes, Labour promise to implement some of party X's policies (and maybe refrain from implementing some of Labour's policies that party X don't like).

If they did then the only logical course of action that they could take would be to reverse his policy and compete with the Lib Dems and SNP for the hardline Remain vote, infuriating further those who've already switched from Labour to UKIP and possibly pushing more in that direction.

And he says that, if Osborne does change his policy, Labour won't «make hay» with the issue and exploit it politically, he says.

It doesn't matter that Labour will balls these policies up, what matters is that GDP not a Happy Planet Index or GWB are now acknowledged by both sides to be the key buttons to public popularity.