Sentences with phrase «labour members know»

Of those Labour members you know who regret voting for Corbyn, and those who voted against, have any left the party?

But perhaps this is because there is no credible defense for Corbyn's 2017 welfare policies, and Labour members know it.

That signifies a greatly more worrying development that the average card - carrying Labour member knows or realises.

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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.

Dave Rowntree Best known as the drummer from Britpop band Blur, he has been a member of the Labour Party since 2002, chairing London's West End branch.

Responding to this proposal, Welsh Labour has stated that it would prefer all AMs be elected by First Past The Post — two from each of the 30 constituencies with a system known as Two Member First Past The Post.

This was certainly a «known unknown», with senior members of the Labour Party seemingly forgetting the major element of a surprise election was that it should be... well... a surprise.

One change, a few months ago, meant that the BBBC's members were no longer elected by the whole house but the Tory members by Tory backbench MPs only and Labour representatives by Labour backbench MPs etc..

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

I'm not convinced the idea will convince many Labour members short of Britain becoming engaged in a new war to prevent the rise of European Fascism, but if the SPD can do it in Germany perhaps those well - known members are so keen to spell out in great detail the deep cuts Labour will make would consider it.

As has been discussed many times in similar debates, for every type of housing fewer houses have been built in the last decade, which I know is as deeply troubling to many Labour Members as it is to us in the Conservative party.

CCHQ deny this - saying that the point of disseminating the graph is to show that UKIP hits Labour as well as the Conservatives; that party members don't know this - and that they need to know.

So our message to Labour party members is this: If some MPs are saying no, contact them — some of them will change their minds.

We know, from party sources, how Labour's selectorate divides between full party members and those who have signed up, either via their trade union or by paying # 3, to vote in the leadership election.

When he did engage it was half - hearted and in the end Labour Party members and voters didn't know where the Leader really stood on this crucial issue.

We're fighting hard for a majority, who knows how things will turn out, I think, look, very many Labour Party members, voters, supporters, would find that very difficult and some Liberal Democrat voters would find that very difficult as well, but we'll deal with the situation as we find it.

«You know when you work with a group of people, and you have a meeting with them... so we orchestrate things and then we let it go,» the member of Young Labour's National Committee added.

Jeremy Corbyn has accused Labour officials of suspending members without letting them know why or giving them the chance to appeal, as tensions surrounding the party's leadership election intensified over the weekend.

Robert Harris, writing not long before the election was called in the New Statesman, «can't quite understand how the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party can sit there day after day, month after month, year after year, knowing that they're simply heading towards a kind of mincing machine at the next election.»

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.

The Labour Party is calling on its members to let its leaders know by Friday 13 September what they think about Ed Miliband's proposals on «building a better Labour Party, so we can build a better Britain.»

I hope they'll call you this afternoon just to confirm that your no longer a member, because there's absolutely no place in the Labour party for those views.»

Ian McKenzie, chair of the Lewisham East constituency Labour party, had written to local members during the week urging them to make their feelings about the selection date known to senior officials.

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.

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

Alan Milburn, the former Health Secretary, says that only full party members should be allowed a vote in leadership elections and that the unions should no longer have a «structural relationship» with Labour.

At times openly shouting at him from the benches behind, moderate Labour members demanded to know why Mr Corbyn himself was rebelling against standing Labour Party policy.

We know from the Labour Party that as many as 200,000 additional members joined in that final week, around half last - minute union sign - ups and the other half divided between new # 3 members and new full members.

Lord David Sainsbury has announced that he will no longer provide financial backing to party political causes, forcing Progress, the centrist Labour pressure group, to turn to its members to make up the shortfall

Senior members hope to win seats on Labour's little - known Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC).

The Labour Party can no longer afford to take its members for granted.

«So I'm here to thank every member of Labour staff, every volunteer, every member of parliament, every supporter for what you've done in the past and for what I know you will do in the future.»

Ed Miliband has a sense of vision that appeals to members in Reading, but local people know that, whoever wins the leadership, Labour will be in there fighting hard on their side.»

We know that more Labour Party members supported David Miliband for the leadership rather than Ed.

Labour members and supporters knew what Labour MPs thought of Corbyn when they voted for him: they naively expected MPs to change the views of their lifetimes and to offer Corbyn the loyal service which he had never offered them.

Knowing Corbyn could win meant he was scrutinised rather than being treated as the traditional left - wing also - ran, meant Labour members could cast their votes in the knowledge of the effect it might have, and vote tactically for or against a candidate if they wished.

Not only does he want to return Labour to its members (not just its supporters) but he has been around long enough to know what that used to feel like.

Tory chairman Patrick McLoughlin said: «It is a sorry state of affairs when talented members of parliament like him no longer feel comfortable representing Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party — a divided party run by a leader who opposes Trident and wants to dismantle our Armed Forces.

In reward for his labours, IBB as he was known became a member of the ruling Supreme Military Council between 1975 and 1979.

Few union members know their rights, says BBC political editor Nick Robinson, so «the result is that many Tory, Lib Dem, Green or nationalist - supporting trade unionists unwittingly fund Labour and give their general secretary significant power in the party in the process».

«We can no longer go on living the lie with these millions of people signed up as levy - paying members to the Labour Party, and treated as if they were members,» Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4's The World At One.

I know that many Government Members share the view of Labour Members that education is the key to social mobility, and that for all our differences on policy, they would not want the Government to waste the Department for Education's budget on an ineffective vanity project.

In this case, it shall ensure that, no later than the date on which a directive must be transposed in accordance with Article 249, management and labour have introduced the necessary measures by agreement, the Member State concerned being required to take any necessary measure enabling it at any time to be in a position to guarantee the results imposed by that directive.