Sentences with phrase «labour parties as»

There are going to be 600 new constituency Labour parties as there will be for other parties, and they will go through a selection process.

It refers to the Labour Party as a «movement» fighting for social justice and social equality.

Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working - class interests in aggregate — politics became about choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.

Forde joined the Labour party as a teenager and unapologetically considers himself a Blairite.

I joined the Labour Party as a result of Blue Toryism aka Powellism.

However, these people are carrying around a romantic notion of the Labour party as being one which will bail people out with large handouts.

Cameron, like Mrs Thatcher before him, will continue the demonisation of the Labour Party as the Party of the «profligate» and «incompetent», but he must present, if he has any real expectation of reelection, a positive Tory vision of the future, which is flagrantly missing in the emphasis on austerity.

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.

Morgan was selected by Cardiff North Labour Party as their candidate for the 1992 general election.

Alexander attended Park Mains High School in Erskine, also in Renfrewshire, from where he joined the Labour Party as a schoolboy in 1982.

If, as is quite likely, Corbyn or someone else from Labour's hard left emerges as the winner then the Labour Party as we know it will be broken.

In a blogpost, the AWL's Cathy Nugent added: «We want to help Corbyn remake the Labour Party as a party that fights for the interests of the working class.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

And he said critics of the leader were «working overtime trying to present the Labour party as a morass of misogyny, anti-Semitism and bullying».

One can comfortably situate Dalyell in the Labour Party as both a Scot and a product of public school (Eton) and Oxbridge (Cambridge).

These changes would constitute a massive shift in how the UK is governed and is likely to be heavily resisted by the Labour party as it would place huge and possibly terminal restrictions on their powers should they form the next government in 2015.

A civil war would have ensued with Corbyn and his followers as Roundheads and the majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party as unlikely Cavaliers — though their tragedy is that they lack the dash and sparkle of Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

«Ed needs the space to lead the Labour party as he sees fit.

They responded by developing a strategy of re-establishing their authority over the Labour party as a result, they said, leading to the «reinventing» of the block vote.

«If he goes, it would be a real loss to Parliament and a loss to the Labour Party as we go into government in 2020, but I can see why people are approaching him.»

That is why last week's convulsion in the Cabinet failed to unseat him, and it is why the aftershock that will run through the Parliamentary Labour Party as MPs return to Westminster tomorrow will not knock him over either.

In opposition MacDonald continued his policy of presenting the Labour Party as a moderate force.

From the late - 1980s onwards, the party adopted free market policies, [146] leading many observers to describe the Labour Party as social democratic or the Third Way, rather than democratic socialist.

This was not a surprising stance for Corbyn to take, but the fact that he had written to the MPs over the heads of his shadow cabinet, was widely seen in the Parliamentary Labour Party as unusual, unwise and undiplomatic.

Indicates to me that he does not see the labour party as a broad church.

The committee is also set up to consider joining the Labour party as a «socialist society» like the Fabian Society and the National Union of Labour and Socialist clubs.

However, the idea of arming Syrian rebels has been met with caution from the Labour Party as well as a significant number of Tories which could prevent action if such a topic were to go to an official vote.

Little Orphan Annie warbling «Tomorrow, Tomorrow» would be at home in the Parliamentary Labour Party as the Honourable Member for Procrastination Central.

When I joined the Labour party as a working class teenager in the 90s, I discovered that snobbery could be just as common on the left as on the right.

I'm going to stay within the Labour party as I have been for 20 - odd years and we will support him.

«All wings of the Labour party which support the notion of the Labour party as a party aspiring to govern, rather than as a fringe protest movement agree on the tragedy of the Labour party's current position.

«All applications to join the Labour Party as a member, affiliate or supporter are verified and those who are identified by our verification team as being candidates, members or supporters of another political party will be denied a vote.»

Before his election he had held elected office within the Hornsey and Wood Green Constituency Labour Party as well as in Newcastle - under - Lyme.

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

Chuka Umunna described the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party as «pretty catastrophic», according to the Press Association.

A «Social Liberal» who has come to us because they see the Labour Party as having sold out and puts equality and redistribution above all else and pursues a radical socialist recipes in the clear knowledge that they will decrease liberty, surely shouldn't be welcome?A broad church should be welcomed, a skewed church should not.

«I'm not in the Labour party because I'm a believer of the Labour party as some supreme body or something God - given or anything like that.

Understandably, the Blairite faction is disconcerted by their abrupt loss of power, but they have a duty to remain loyal to the Labour party as the left has always done.»

Tories are probably right to think that «Odd Ed» is a very weak candidate for 10 Downing Street but if it's hard to regard the Labour leader as a potent threat we shouldn't think the same of the Labour Party as a whole.

Labour voters who don't choose the Labour Party as the best party on a particular issue choose the Conservatives on five issues as better than the Lib Dems (eg cutting the deficit, dealing with crime and defending Britain's interests in Europe) while they only prefer the LibDems on three issues including protecting the environment.

I think there was a tendency among political commentators to regard what happened in 2015 in the Labour Party as if it was a political nervous breakdown, as if everybody in the Labour Party had lost their minds, or it was a takeover of the party by entryists.

«Their primary manoeuvre was to paint the Labour party as extreme, out of touch and a risk to security.

Jeremy Corbyn addressed allegations of bullying within the Labour Party as he launched his campaign to remain as leader in Salford.

Danczuk is currently suspended by the Labour party as MP for Rochdale following allegations he sent sexually explicit messages to a 17 - year - old girl.

«As someone who has lived in the UK for over 50 years, I still remember the Labour Party as the promoter of the Race Relations Act while the Conservative Party had Enoch Powell making speeches about «Rivers of blood.»

The labour party your now a member of is one of the biggest threats to the Unions the party takes the cash but has not been a left leaning party for a long time the Unions are now actually giving cash to the right wing of the labour party as we all saw in the Falkirk mess.

«They see the Labour party as a vehicle for revolutionary socialism, and they're not remotely interested in winning elections, and that's a problem.»

Social Democrats were the frustrated types that left the Labour party as it had become increasingly obvious that the alternative economic model could not work, while the Labour party ploughed on ever into naivety and self - denial.

Is it possible oh yes it is another nail in the labour party as we use to know it to the Progress party.

In September 2010, Rahman was selected [13] by the Tower Hamlets Labour Party as its candidate to be the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets.