Sentences with phrase «labour activists»

Cumberland regularly blew up its Chinese workers and shot union labour activists.

But as Mr Corbyn pivoted from Northants to Surrey and Leicestershire, Theresa May recovered herself and started citing examples of quitting Labour council leaders and Labour activists switching to her party.

On June 1st every year, injured workers and labour activists gather outside the Legislative Assembly at Queen's Park in Toronto and in cities across the province to mark Injured Workers» Day.

Labour activists / Councillors of my acquaintance have such a long standing and deep seated antipathy for the SNP they find it difficult to believe voters have switched.

But something else took place that was quietly significant; beneath the radar a generational shift is happening in the party as Young Labour activists worked alongside perennial conference agitators to forge the way for a historic change in the way Labour party policy will be created.

Jeremy Corbyn is BACKED by two - thirds of Labour activists.

Unlike some, I don't see 38 degrees as an irritant, or dismiss it because it is run by Labour activists.

Secondly, whilst the sights of Labour activists in both Scotland and Wales are firmly concentrated on their new national parliaments rather than Westminster, Scotland (unlike Wales) seems to send its leading politicians to Westminster.

Finally what liaison was there between Mr Tully and police federation, not just with the Labour Party in London, but critically with Labour activists in the Midlands.

Mr Prescott and Mr Clarke were joined in the special debate by the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and a collection of Labour activists, trades unionists and experts.

Salmond certainly doesn't arouse the personal animosity amongst the public that is does amongst Labour activists — he's way ahead of his party.

But — whatever the positioning of our leaders — Labour activists have a major role in November 30th: in the build - up, on the day itself, and in the aftermath.

It's an argument that warms the hearts of Labour activists, but leaves the public cold.

YouGov on Tuesday released an amazing statistic: that despite the ongoing political gaffe-fest and disastrous poll rankings, a full 65 % of Labour activists maintain that Corbyn is doing «well».

And who knows, will we even discover what only Labour activists can hope - that all the polls so far have been wrong.

I'm pretty confident that Caroline Noakes can win Southampton North and Romsey, but I know Labour activists campaigned for the Lib Dems there last time just to keep us out.

The majority of Labour activists now have a visceral hatred for the C2s and Ds that used to be the backbone of the Labour Party, and those feelings are reciprocated; as evidenced by the shift to UKIP.

Well, I'd argue that it's even in the interests of those Labour activists who don't place themselves on the left of the party.

Yet his impulse was always to make Labour feel good about itself and its core instincts, and to blame election defeat on the sort of things Labour activists hate (inequality, the Iraq war, New Labour's cosying up to the financial sector).

If Labour activists spent a little less time trying to convince people that we are wrong and they are right they may be taken seriously.

And while Labour activists in Stoke should beam with pride for routing Ukip, there, too, there was a swing to the Tories.

Apart from bitching about the Lib Dems, I had quite a few conversations with Labour activists about the state of the Labour Party.

I think his problem lies in the way that Labour activists would view him, as his behaviour and back story are heavily at odds with their prejudices.

Labour activists were swift to condemn his words, and it was also claimed that Mr Corbyn had been reported to the party's Compliance Unit, which examines the behaviour of members.

But as Mr Corbyn pivoted from Northants to Surrey and Leicestershire, Theresa May recovered herself and started citing examples of quitting Labour council leaders and Labour activists switching to her party.

«This is not the good society we aspire to,» he told Labour activists in London yesterday.»

The Populus poll in Oldham East and Saddleworth, commissioned by Lord Ashcroft, shows that Labour activists are speaking to as many local voters — in person or by phone — as the Liberal Democrats.

ProfHoward «NI Labour activists get up at the crack of dawn, go on the ferry, and campaign for Labour in Stranraer»

Labour activists are gathering for the party's Welsh conference in Llandudno.

PS: Since Labour don't stand in NI, I have noticed that NI Labour activists get up at the crack of dawn, go on the ferry, and campaign for Labour in Stranraer.

Some Labour activists were warned that they should not leave the building because their safety could not be guaranteed.

But during this campaign, the level of abuse that we have been subjected to by BNP and Labour activists has been so high that the police had to be called on four separate occasions.

A generation ago, Labour activists were notoriously out of touch with the majority view among Labour voters.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».

According to George Galloway, Reid is an accomplished singer and guitar player and «taught a whole generation of Labour activists, including yours truly, the entire IRA songbook».

Ed Miliband's decision to tackle Paxman aggressively worked in the spin room, and will have heartened Labour activists.

On the campaign trail, Labour activists face anger they say borders on the irrational, with even campaign leader Douglas Alexander likely to lose his seat

There is NO evidence that Labour activists commit more fraud than Tories; in fact more Tories have been convicted of electoral fraud than Labour if you really want to get into it.

«So for those who have come to Stoke - on - Trent to sow hatred and division, and to try to turn us away from our friends and neighbours, I have one message: you have failed,» he said to cheers from Labour activists.

Shadow minister Gavin Shuker tweeted: «Baston's report «The Bradford Earthquake» should be required reading for Labour activists.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

Winterton made it clear that such efforts to segregate MPs had not only undermined party unity but had left Labour members — many of whom had been wrongly labelled as disloyal — open to criticism from their constituents and Labour activists who were demanding why they were not more supportive.

Mr Corbyn also faced criticism for handing a peerage to race equality campaigner Martha Osamor after it emerged she had defended Labour activists suspended from the party over alleged anti-Semitism.

It remained popular target for Labour activists for much of the 20th century, though the party's abolitionist zeal waned with the rise of New Labour.

«This was what necessitated the setting up of a revenue apportionment committee led by no less personality than a former Labour leader in Nigeria and veteran labour activists on the continent of Africa, Comrade Hassan Sunmonu».

He also enthused many Labour activists, who flocked to his rallies in the 1983 election campaign.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander has told Labour activists he «paid a price» for opposing former Brown aide Damian McBride's «destructive» style of politics.

Most of the Labour activists I know just accept that they have no real say in Party policy and that all the Policy Reviews and NPF debates will produce the results that Party leaders want irrespective of what members think.

Scores of Scottish Labour activists and officials were sent to support the campaign in Copeland.

Labour activists are condemning their party's crucial by - election campaign in Crewe and Nantwich after an election leaflet was released which party members have dubbed racist.