Sentences with phrase «labour electoral success»

Complaining about the perceived injustice of it all won't deliver Labour electoral success.

Not exact matches

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

A large part of the electoral success of Tony Blair was due to the fact that he abandoned many of the old Labour / TUC strengths and weaknesses and embraced what had become called «Thatcherism»; which was a political phenomenon rather than a coherent philosophy.

The campaign group Saving Labour has claimed that the polling translates into a loss of 44 seats for Labour, while angry Labour MPs have seized on the figures as further evidence that Corbyn can not lead the party to electoral success.

But couple them with the broader challenges we face, and they represent a real danger to Labour's future electoral success.

That strategy — mainly presentational, but also calling for an end to demands for higher taxes, for instance — was largely adopted and implemented by Tony Blair and helped bring about Labour's tremendous electoral success.

This would have a seriously detrimental impact on the electoral success of moderate parties in Northern Ireland, such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Alliance Party.

This week he strongly suggested Brown should go if Labour was to have any hopes of electoral success.

Welcoming delegates, the SNP leader insisted their electoral success was not just a reaction against the Westminster government and showed Labour's historic dominance of Scotland is over.

He ends the article by attacking what he calls the «Reassurance Labour tendency», not just for minimising the chances of electoral success, but because «its vision is too narrow, its mechanisms too one - dimensional, and its effectiveness too limited.»

Both she and her first sponsor, MP Jonathan Edwards of Carmarthen, leaned heavily on the SNP's electoral successes in Scotland, where Labour has provided a much easier Blairite target for populist policies.

The old New Labour triangulation strategy was that the so - called «core vote» had nowhere else to go, but relatively affluent swing voters were key to electoral success.

At the time of Corbyn's election polls suggested that his supporters were far more concerned about his beliefs than whether he would lead Labour to electoral success.

The people who are intent on splitting the Labour party are those who refuse to support its elected leader and can not propose an alternative with even the faintest chance of electoral success.

In 1983, he points out, huge popular misgivings about Margaret Thatcher's plans didn't translate to electoral success for Labour - quite the opposite.

My, how we sneer at the Tories» lack of electoral success in the north, yet as the report points out, 43 % of voters in the south said they would never vote Labour (the same figure for voters in the north who would never vote Conservative).

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

Bill Clinton's electoral success after renaming his party the New Democrats was an inspiration to Mr Blair and his fellow Labour modernisers.

Owen Smith now has a real chance to make a principled appeal to those Corbynistas who, reasonably enough, want Labour politics to mean something again, after enduring two decades of New Labour's ideological crash diet, but who may, by now, harbour doubts about Jeremy's ability to deliver electoral success.