Sentences with phrase «labour person at that time»

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We enslave and abuse them, we take over their countries and their resources, we exploit their poverty by investing in their poverty and virtually use them as slave labour, as we close down factories in our own country to make a fortune out of others misery, while at the same time put people out of work in the home country.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Time and again, the only headlines pouring out of TVs and newspapers are how working people and Trade Unions are influencing the Labour Party and how we should all be appalled at this scandal.

The narrator neglects to mention, of course, some of the ostensibly insignificant issues confronting British people at the time, such as the absence of workers» rights, child labour, slum housing and mass poverty.

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referendum.

A year ago at the time of the Government's spending review, some people agreed with Labour that David Cameron and George Osborne were going too far and too fast and endangering our recovery.

The Labour peer added that the failed bill was a «complete mess» and could not become law unless it was changed to give the «British people a proper referendum at the right time».

His intervention is likely to be highly controversial at a time when Theresa May has criticised those seeking to deny the «will of the people» as reflected by the EU referendum vote on 23 June 2016, and when Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has pledged not to block the triggering of Brexit.

The lesson of the election is that Labour can't and mustn't be a party which only does community campaigning at election time, or that sees changes in central government policy as the only way to persuade people to support them.

At the same time, Labour won just eight seats (of 139) in the South East and South West of England regions despite 1.3 million people casting votes for the party in this area.

She said they should stop being «political pundits» and added: «We don't want anybody who is part of Labour's team in Parliament giving people the impression we are anything other than completely focused on giving the help they need at this time.»

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

In the weeks since I posted, I've probably spoken to 150 people who used to be labour supporters and maybe 30 % of those were card carrying members at one time.

At the beginning of the campaign, and prior to it, people were saying «I think you're great MP but I might have to vote Tory this time to get Labour out».

«As they did in 2012, if labour leaders do not also stand up for the people at this time, posterity will not forgive them.»

Mandelson, whose relations with Kinnock have cooled in recent years, told the Sunday Times: «When people who have devoted almost all of their lives to the election of a Labour government are labelled a «virus» in our party, we really are at risk of reliving the bitter divisions of the early 1980s, divisions that condemned us to years in the wilderness.»

Our people need Labour party members, trade unionists and MPs to unite behind my leadership at a critical time for our country.

This time around, nobody is in any doubt — not least because Labour helpfully remind people at every opportunity — that the austerity drive that has helped keep the markets» confidence in the Britain has been a deliberate policy.

In his Times interview he takes a provocative swipe at two Labour grandees he has long disliked: «I understand that people of a certain age like Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley want to hark back to a previous age, and they believe that [Ed] Miliband would reconstruct the party in that image.»

The government - New Labour or the Tories if they get it - are getting extra money at the same time as putting people off environmentalism.»

«The work we're doing through the youth contract and through the work programme and through work experience should be supported by people like the trade unions and the Labour party instead of being carped at by them, which is what they do the whole time.»

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

«At this critical time for our country, following the result of the EU referendum, we need strong and effective leadership of the Labour Party that is capable of winning public support so that we can stand up for the people of Britain.

Punters at William Hill reckon that the most likely person to be Prime Minister in ten years» time will be our very own David Cameron (DC has been captioned as a Labour MP by the BBC today btw).

«What is particularly missing at this time is her coming out in public, meeting her constituents, talking to TV cameras, explaining what happened, perhaps being a little humble about all of this and giving a satisfactory explanation to her constituents and the wider Conservative family to be quite frank, because speaking to people from the West Midlands region where she is an MP, these things do have a knock - on effect and there are other marginal seats far closer to her constituency where people have got Labour majorities to overturn which may be more difficult if the local Conservative politician is seen as tainted and not having justified their actions and also I gather that Conservative Party HQ has had party donors from the region expressing concern that she hasn't satisfactorily justified what she has done.»

So here we are again Thatcher mark 2 and people at the bottom people out of work people like me will not be rushing out to vote labour at any time soon because you do not speak for us any more..

«Future is the most important word in politics, but at the election people judged that the Labour Party was out of time.

Frank Field is one of these people who lots of people say is great until he is actually given any power, he manages both to agitate Labour MPs favourable towards welfare by coming out with solutions to time limit benefits and add workfare requirements, equally he is constantly saying that JSA rates are far too low as well as demanding pensions at high rates for all, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown both came to the conclusion that his proposals on the State Pension would have been hugely expensive - his pension plans could not all be funded by savings on the unemployed and would probably lead to a huge swelling in the welfare budget.

The double blow was dismissed at the time as a protest vote, and the decision of the electorate, with a 29.2 % swing to Labour from People's Voice, five years later would seem to support that.

The reality is, their disastrous «centre - ground» positioning over the summer just pissed off Labour voters and at the same time did absolutely nothing to win over people who hated us.

They are risking blowing the Labour Party up into civil war at exactly the time when the people that the Labour Party was established to represent more than ever need the Party to be strong and united.

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The two defining problems of our time are climate change and inequality, BC FED President Irene Lanzinger told a crowd of about 100 people at a Thursday event co-hosted by the BC Federation of Labour and several other labour organizaLabour and several other labour organizalabour organizations.

Car dependence and labour - saving devices have cut the energy people expend as they go about their lives, at the same time increasing the amount of fossil fuel they burn.

A practising labour and employment lawyer and at one time the national leader of practices and people at McCarthy's, Boniferro says he hopes some of the experience he has had in the private sector in a management role can be leveraged in the MAG's office.

That will take time, so to address the short terms gaps already evident, they really need to look at their restrictive labour laws to allow businesses to access the people they need from overseas.

I hope that the Hays Global Skills Index 2017 provides not only a useful insight into the worldwide labour market, but some food for thought on how business can navigate uncertain times and ensure people and talent are at the heart of business strategies for growth and success in the years to come.