Sentences with phrase «labour members just»

Burnham was cited by 36 per cent of people, prompting his campaign chair Michael Dugher to email Labour members just in case they missed it:

We surveyed Labour members just after the 2015 General Election, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the election.

Not exact matches

I feel that women and their partners do much better with privacy and intimacy during the birth process and that, my role is to sometimes protect that privacy and intimacy first of all by educating them that that might be really important and to talk about you know the effect both positive and negative about um, support during that time can be or even just letting people know hey, we're in labour, the Facebook kind of thing but you know keep it quiet, keep it down, don't fritter the energy away by drawing other people to it or drawing the expectation that something's happening rather than just letting something evolve... I think guarding the space by keeping the space as calm and quiet and private as possible is key and giving people tools to do that during the prenatal time to deal with over eager family members or friends.

The leap of logic I make here is that members of the public just won't bother to register if they don't share Labour's values.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

One Labour party member after another has been suspended over allegations of anti-Semitism in recent weeks, so is it just a problem for the left or a far bigger issue?

«The Labour party has an opportunity for the first time in the process of selecting its candidate to go beyond just those who are signed up members to those who want to make a small contribution.

I daresay this is just another ploy to tar Patriots and Conservatives as Fascists and racists... Mussolini - Italian Socialist Editor of Avanti Moseley - Labour Party member whose black shirts developed from the eerily familiar Green shirts I could go on.

If you made the donations run direct from individual union member to the party with the union just administering the donation - and each member allowed to donate to any party they want, ie not just Labour, then I can't imagine there being any complaint.

The size of the challenge facing Ed Miliband was thrown into stark relief this morning, after a prominent union leader warned just ten per cent of his members would be likely to join Labour.

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

Just over half of Tory party members support the death penalty compared to under ten per cent of Labour and Lib Dem members and a fifth of SNP members.

The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.

Ambode however urged organised labour to continue to be focused on realistic and reasonable goals while rightly insisting on the due and just entitlements of their members, calling for all hands to be on deck to continue to explore innovative means to address the economic challenges in the country for the good of all Nigerian workers.

The average age of party members is 57 for the Tories, 54 for the SNP, 53 for Labour, and 52 for the Liberal Democrats — and just one in 20 party members in the UK is aged between 18 - 24.

While they should be celebrating the democratic revival within the party, for some reason a number of Labour MPs don't see it that way and have forced another leadership contest just 10 months after members last made their choice clear.

• Require all unions, not just those affiliated to Labour, to ask each existing union member whether they wish to pay the political levy and then repeat the question every five years.

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.

The Scottish Labour Party has only 13,000 members -(many of whom are ageing or inactive)- and has just lost 39 of its 40 Westminster MPs.

23rd July 2015, The Independent: Just who are these Labour Party members who will be choosing the new leader?

At the latest count Labour had around 190,000 members, the Conservatives around 150,000 and the Liberal Democrats just 44,000.

Just after Labour lost last May's general election, we surveyed its grassroots members as part of a study of party membership in 21st Century Britain.

10th March 2016, Vice: «People are just not turning up» Why Labour's new members aren't engaging with the party

Labour members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

In fact, many of those members we surveyed in May 2015 were included in YouGov's poll of Labour members conducted just before the leadership election.

With the help of YouGov and as part of an ESRC - funded project on UK party membership in the twenty - first century, we (Professor Tim Bale and Dr Monica Poletti (Queen Mary University of London) and Professor Paul Webb (University of Sussex)-RRB- have conducted a new survey of Labour's new members, fielded just after the May 2016 local, devolved and mayoral elections.

I just don't see what has changed about Labour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise resLabour — and as such I'm not convinced this influx of new members who were so happy to be morally superior to labour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise reslabour supporters for so long will be utterly welcomed or will last long once normal political compromise restarts.

As noted in a previous post, this follows rule changes turning the Labour leadership contest into a fully «one member one vote» process, and giving voting rights to «supporters» who signed up for just # 3.

Just 4 % of Jewish Labour Movement members have backed Jeremy Corbyn to remain party leader, with 92 % opting for challenger Owen Smith.

Then it just appears that labour councillors are spending other people's money to keep themselves in, while ignoring party members in both strongholds and unwinnables, and expecting those members to fund the rest.

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

«I just don't think that shows respect for the candidates we had up and down the country - or respect for the ordinary Labour party members who were out knocking on doors.»

But then, without notice to Lutfur or even its own members, without presenting any written evidence, without any investigation, with total disregard for the principles of natural justice, and just three days before the close of nominations, the Labour national executive removed Lutfur as a candidate and replaced him with Helal Abbas who had come third in the selection.

The net effect of it all was it just made life harder on the doorstep for ordinary Labour party members and activists up and down the country.

Just under half (49 per cent) of Unite members said they would vote Labour in an election tomorrow; 23 per cent would vote Tory.

There are several lessons we must learn not just from the negotiations in May 2010 (for which Labour were unprepared) but also from relations between the two parties in the coalition and the continuing impact of coalition government on their members.

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Internal party documents show that Labour lost more than 5,000 members in just one week last month amid concerns about the party's approach to the Brexit process.

One long - serving Labour member and former Number 10 staffer told TP they had recently reduced their monthly direct debit to just # 1.96, rather than quit the party.

Ms Abbott said Labour member Ms Chakrabarti, who chaired an independent review into claims of anti-Semitism in the party, would be «just the sort of person» who should find a place in the House of Lords and her appointment would be «entirely appropriate».

The union funding of labour should come with «no strings» — no voting rights, just lobbying on behalf of members.

By voting to elect all shadow cabinet members against the advice of former Ministers like Jack Straw and Phil Woolas and most speakers at the PLP meeting other than Frank Dobson, Labour MPs voted to be treated as more than just voting fodder.

As the New Statesman has just tweeted, the vote of one MP is 608 times more valuable than the vote of a grassroots member in Labour's union - heavy electoral college.

Then in 2011 the Compass membership voted to take the huge cultural and political step of changing our constitution to open up membership beyond just Labour to welcome in party members from the Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru and anyone who supported our good society goals of much greater equality, sustainability, democracy and pluralism.

Mandelson and Blair's dominance of the political news just as Labour members received ballot papers fatally damaged the candidate whom they hoped to help, persuading enough undecided voters that it was time for everyone to move on.

Mercer was first elected to Parliament as the member for Newark at the 2001 general election, defeating the Labour incumbent, Fiona Jones, overturning a majority of 3,000 and creating a majority of just over 4,000.

But on immigration 60 % of the general public think it is a major issue, 46 % of Labour voters do, just 17 % of Labour members do; 78 % of Labour party members think immigration is good for the economy, only 41 % of Labour voters do, only 29 % of the general public.

Having raised the issue of Neo-Liberalism and obviously finding growing decent in the ranks of the Labour Party, he thought he would camouflage the new Neo-Liberal agenda under the guise of Blue Labour, unfortunately for him it was again obvious to a lot of people not just Labour members, that this was not Labour and a swing further right to appeal to the Tories.

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.

Just under half (49 %) of Unite members said they would vote Labour in an election tomorrow; 23 % would vote Tory.