Sentences with phrase «if conservatives look»

If Conservatives look insensitive to the needs of hard - pressed consumers and Labour naïve about the impact on jobs their less business - friendly policies could have, the Lib Dems could make hay as the moderaters.

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

If the Conservatives look like they are going to do well then it remains a plausible line for us to say that we're the only party that can protect Scotland from the effects of a Tory landslide.»

Not exact matches

With the Conservatives in power, there really is much more of a belief that health care should really be just left to the provinces, and the extent to which the feds are involved if at all is really to support the Canada Health Act through the transfer of funding, but not really to look at whether or not [the act] is actually being fulfilled.

If so, you may want to look into a more conservative strategy like dividend growth stocks or index funds where the focus is on the long - term and building wealth slowly.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

Not the socially conservative, servant of feel good capitalism that is so prevalent in the U. S. And let's look at it this way, if that mysoginist, drug addicted coward, Rush Limbaugh thinks what the Pope is doing is socialism, then the Pope must be doing something right.

We conservative evangelicals somtimes make it look like if the, «gays will just give up their gaying ways they can be saved».

«It barely had a Conservative logo on it all and if you make the entire election about yourself you'd better make sure you win because otherwise it really does make your position look really quite weak.

It would be a great sadness if, looking back at this period, historians concluded that these conservatives, by their uncritical partisanship, succeeded only in further discrediting the possibility of a religiously informed moral discourse in public life.

If President Obama is looking for a conservative endorsement, he might find it from potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — at least on the issue of family values.

If you believe that religion lives on the right, and you are booking a television program, then when you look for an authentic «religious voice» you're probably going to find a conservative one.

Bravest: Matt Appling with «Honk if You Hate Social Justice» Conservative Christians: The way some of you talk about social justice makes you all look like a bunch of cynical, selfish jerks... It sounds like you find the idea of social justice more abhorrant than poverty itself.

And yet, these deep flaws in conservative jurisprudence come into sight even more dramatically if we return to that question of abortion, and look back forty years to the briefs and the dissenting opinions that were offered in Roe v. Wade.

If pain continues even after conservative treatment most physicians will order an MRI, an imaging study that lets the physician look closely at the cartilage and ligaments in the knee to see if another injury is being misseIf pain continues even after conservative treatment most physicians will order an MRI, an imaging study that lets the physician look closely at the cartilage and ligaments in the knee to see if another injury is being misseif another injury is being missed.

But if he is being more conservative and is looking for a defensive contribution then Ox is not the man.

But it looks as if at Westminster, as the General Election looms, the future in terms of work - family balance is no longer being regarded as purely female — at least by Labour and the Conservatives.

1 - Skin Rule If you are showing a lot of skin in one area, keep your look conservative everywhere else.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The speed and depth of the economic downturn mean it would have been very diffi cult for the Conservative Party to look ready for government if they were now saddled with lots of unaffordable commitments that predated the recession.

I don't care if it's a liberal, conservative or apolitical, did you or did you not continue a chain of e-mails that were offensive to the president, had racial overtones... We just had two governors back - to - back that were losers, we're looking for somebody who's going to put their head above this personal flotsam and jetsam that has paralyzed the office.»

If the Tories lose Hastings and indeed Portsmouth South, then it looks like a really problematic night for the Conservatives in their old stronghold in Southern England.

In allowing the sense slowly to develop that Brexit might be delayed or diluted, the Conservatives are playing with electoral fire: if it looks like they're going back on Brexit in any way they'll face an appalling backlash from these people that have kept the faith.

If, as looks likely, the Conservatives end up with the largest number of seats, they get to go first in trying to form a government by going into coalition with other parties.

It looked at how the Conservatives could win an overall majority, and rested on the premise that if the party did not want to govern in coalition, it would need to build a coalition of voters big enough to allow it to rule on its own.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

If, as looks likely, almost all those votes move over to the Conservatives a 100 + majority is certainly possible.

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

«If one looks at all the previous Conservative leaders I have faced, the first one was Conservative leader for six years; the second one, for four years; the third one for two years, one month and 16 days; and the right honourable and learned gentleman [Mr Howard] has lasted just two years and one month.

«If the Conservative Party announced that reversing the 45p would be a priority, they would be running in the election saying the following: We've looked at the books.

Just how important Brexit has been as a recruiting sergeant for the Conservatives becomes even clearer if we look separately at the evolution of the Conservative vote between, first, 2015 and the Scottish Parliament election in May 2016, and, second, between May 2016 and the UK general election in June this year.

Well if they aren't acquainted yet, they should look no further than this guy, he is probably more conservative than the conservative party leaders, Paladino and New Yorkers for Conitutional Freedoms combined.

«If you look, I have the most fiscally conservative government anywhere around here,» she said.

On tax rises, the IFS has looked at the manifestos, and feel they imply an extra # 7 billion for Labour, an extra # 3 billion for Conservatives (reimposing half the effective «cut» from their much vaunted jobs tax «cut») and the Lib Dems are pretty much on target.

If anyone needed more proof that the Conservatives are now the party of the NHS, take a look at the attitude of the political parties in Tower Hamlets in East London to Clem Attlee, its founding father, as reported by Iain Dale yesterday.

«If you look at the last two elections in the district,» he volunteered, «the combination of Republican and Conservative votes outnumbered Democratic and Working Families votes by about 10,000.»

If Obama loses that fiscal conservative group, which he very well may do, then I would look for someone like Mark Sanford, or Bobby Jindal (who I am not sold on yet at all) to take the lead in four years.

If you look at the cross-tabulation with how people actually voted though, considerably more people told Populus they had voted Tory to stop Labour winning than voted Labour to stop the Conservatives winning (however some people were obviously confused by the question — 32 said they voted tactically against Labour, but voted Labour).

This is about up to half of the Conservative Party set to defy Cameron in one of his frequent and frequently doomed attempts to make the Tories resemble a party that at least looks as if it knows we're now residing in the 21st century.

«If you look at the things that I've argued for in parliament, if you look at my voting record in parliament, I've been able to do all those things from within the Conservative partIf you look at the things that I've argued for in parliament, if you look at my voting record in parliament, I've been able to do all those things from within the Conservative partif you look at my voting record in parliament, I've been able to do all those things from within the Conservative party.

There were 75 abstentions, which is not that many - it looks to me as if the number of Conservatives voting against is quite substantial.

If you look beneath the surface of a lot of these liberal / conservative differences, you'll often (but not always) see the conservative position rooted in fear of the future and longing for a return to a (real or imagined) better past, whereas the liberal position is rooted in a distain at an unjust past and a longing for a (real or imagined) better future.

The trouble is, if the economy does begin to recover before the election than the Conservatives will have been proven right and Labour will look less credible than ever.

It looks as if the Conservatives will now be in the same position, though much depends on the independents.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, she said: «We need to show people that we understand their aspirations and ambitions for the future and if you look right across England, we did not do enough to appeal to Conservative supporters, and we must.

I'll put up full notional results later on today, but looking at England and Wales as a whole, it looks as if the Conservatives would lose 10 seats, Labour would lose 28 seats, the Liberal Democrats would lose 4 and the Greens would lose one (by my calculations the new Brighton North would be a close three - way marginal, with the Conservatives narrowly ahead of Labour).

«If you look historically at what happened in 2009 when we had a three - way race for mayor, if you added the Republican and Conservative candidates together, the Democrat didn't win by mucIf you look historically at what happened in 2009 when we had a three - way race for mayor, if you added the Republican and Conservative candidates together, the Democrat didn't win by mucif you added the Republican and Conservative candidates together, the Democrat didn't win by much.

If Cameron reflects on the fate of the last two Conservative Prime Ministers the picture looks even bleaker.