Sentences with phrase «labour members get»

Personally, I couldn't care less what a councillor or a Labour member gets up to in their spare time as long as they're not hurting anyone, but I'm told that not everyone agrees.

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That was a high hurdle for members to get over, but the votes provided regular ammunition for the press to talk about how chaotic and left - wing Labour was.

McDonnell said: «I've been talking to Labour party members all over the country, they're saying for those begrudgers — because that's what they are — for goodness sake, get behind the leader of the Labour party that was democratically elected, it's time to put up or shut up.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

First though, I want the blisters on my feet to heal and the many thousands of Labour members — our volunteer army of progressives and community builders, to get a well earned rest.

With news on the proposals getting through to Labour Party members over the summer, LWAC, together with Labour women MPs, took the initiative to launch the Save Lone Parent Benefit umbrella campaign.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Labour MPs to get free vote on Syria strikes Labour members oppose Syria bombing by three - to - one Jeremy Corbyn warns Labour MPs over Syria

He said that in future, all of Labour's members should get a vote in general secretary elections, rather than just those on the party's ruling national executive committee.

Like many Labour members, I wince when I recall the Mandleson words about not caring about the rich getting richer.

As well as encouraging trade unionists to join the Party, we need to get Labour Party members to become trade union members.

That would have prompted all but diehard members to turn to the SDP - Liberal Alliance as the best way of getting rid of Mrs Thatcher, although Labour in Scotland and Wales would also have faced desertion to the nationalist parties.

Momentum is urging as many Labour members and supporters to get involved as possible, highlighting the difference campaigning can make:

In reality, Benn was desperately lucky to get as close as he did — and only did so because Labour's largest union, the TGWU, gave him their vote in the second ballot, against the wish of a clear majority of its members, who wanted Denis Healey.

You have seen that with Murdoch and child abuse and now he wants to work full - time with the members to get the Labour party elected.

The Labour leadership hopeful dutifully toured the TV and radio studios this morning as he set out his pitch to party members as the campaign gets underway.

Labour has already become too top - down a Party, with members required simply to work to get candidates elected.

The Labour party has always fought for equal treatment, and against prejudice and discrimination, but, in their desperation to steer the party in a certain direction, and get their favoured leadership candidate elected; many party members are now betraying their own ideals and values.

While it's unusual for someone seeking to become a Labour PPC to secure the support of three members of the shadow cabinet, Hayes was not alone among the candidates in getting top level backing.

Caroline Flint is demoted from DCLG to DECC despite being a confident media performer, and one of the few Shadow Cabinet members to openly «get» the need for Labour to widen its appeal to the middle classes in order to win elections.

He was coordinating phone canvassing as a tsunami crashed through Labour politics, with new members signing up in droves — for full membership, or as «registered supporters», who paid # 3 to get a leadership vote.

«I talk to members on all wings of the Labour Party, the new members, the old members, the members on the left, the members on the right, and they all say Jeremy's got a mandate and we need to respect it.

Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.

The local Labour Party members should be ashamed of what their councillors get up to - smears and innuendo, none of it ever stands up.

What we may be about to witness as Ed succeeds in getting unions and members to sign up to something last tried on the Labour movement by Stanley Baldwin, is the strange re-birth of the Whig party

Having read Millibore's article, it is hard to see him getting elected by Labour members under this agenda, which can be summed up as Re - Heated Blairism [«more choice in public services»] etc..

When some of these newer Labour members are involved in the abuse and intimidation of MPs and councillors, it is also perfectly legitimate for Corbyn's opponents to criticise him for failing to get to grips with the problem.

For many Labour members, the feeling is that you have to be very active to get involved, there are no quick and easy options, for instance in policy development or candidate selection.

This also sparked squabbles between the four remaining (all Labour) constituent members of the Combined Authority on the way forward — showing how local leaders struggled to get on and work together, and raising concerns as to how and whether they'd make a devo deal work.

Mr Prescott continued: «All I ever wanted was to get to the final hustings to put my case to the members on how I wanted to build on the successes that Labour have achieved.

That sort of rhetoric will go down well amongst Labour members I'm sure but it will only make it harder to get Lib Dems to cooperate, not easier.

The NUT managed to get a Labour government to effectively cut off public relations with it — and its members.

The poll for the Times found that 66 per cent of Labour members believe that Corbyn is doing «well» — even higher than the 59 per cent who voted for Corbyn in September, with many of those who voted for Andy Burnham now getting behind the leader.

A few months earlier, long - serving Labour member and local councillor Philip Glanville was elected mayor of Hackney after getting the backing of the local Momentum group.

Mr McBride, Gordon Brown's chief spin doctor, has published his memoirs as Labour's conference gets underway, which detail how he briefed against colleagues and cabinet members.

6.20 pm: Lord Janner, a Labour peer who is also a member of the Magic Circle, is performing tricks outside the door, where he can't get in.

Labour voters do not, of course, necessarily reflect the preferences of the Labour members and supporters who get a vote, though the previous YouGov polling of Labour party members also suggested a large lead for Corbyn.

Margaret Mullane, secretary of the CLP in Dagenham and Rainham, which Labour holds, said: «The CLP voted overwhelmingly for Jeremy at the last leadership election and we have been ringing up members regularly and I get the impression nothing has changed.»

Most Labour members have got to the point of sheer desperation and... «Oh what the hell!

This is how low we've got in the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn: a non-Jewish member of the Parliamentary Labour Party calling out Jews for being anti-semitic.

«It's all very well packing his so - called «People's Question Time» with hand - picked Labour party members, but Miliband would be better served getting out and actually speaking to people on Cardiff's doorsteps.

I glad corbyn is doing well and if, as a union member, I get a vote, I will vote for him because the labour party does need to shift leftwards.

Blue Labour, for its part, needs to be a little less «agitational» and a little more shrewd at using language which will appeal to Labour party members — it's broken into mainstream debate now, no need to overuse provocative language just to get noticed.

There had been reports that an increasing number of Labour MPs and members of the NEC had been attempting to get the election for the position of deputy leader abandoned in order to save the # 2,000,000 it was estimated that the contest would cost.

There have also been further murmurs from MPs and Labour members on the right that they are unhappy that Smith was chosen ahead of Eagle, believing that after the Conservatives adopted their second woman leader and prime minister, Labour should be getting round to its first.

The Labour Right know that as every day goes by we on the Left are slowly getting to grips with the Labour Party machine and transforming it to reflect the members not the career politicians of the PLP.

Conservative Philip Davies used the press conference for the publication of the report to launch a personal attack against Labour MP and fellow committee member Tom Watson, saying «some people are getting carried away».

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

But opponents of the Labour party say this would actually give the unions more power because all those affiliated members will actually take up more of the membership block than the unions were getting in the leadership election.