Sentences with phrase «labour supporters at»

After meeting Labour supporters at a cafe in Ipswich, I asked over a cup of tea if he had finally got over being defeated by Miliband.

If we are going to challenge the Tories at any level we need committed Labour supporters at the forefront of the battles not just followers of organised union activities.

Reported the attack on car to police.Kids are shaken.One attacker wearing Labour rosette & stood with Labour supporters at polling station.Thankyou for supportive comments.I'm fine, was not in car - my brother & kids were.Police were nrby & have reported.Upsetting but not deterred.»

He told an audience of Labour supporters at the Trades Hall Club that it would be the new leader's job to set out a vision for the party and for the country, and the deputy's job to help them realise it.

Despite all the talk of late surges and delayed ballots, his lead amongst the # 3 «supporters», (many of whom are clearly not Labour supporters at all), is too large to be overhauled.

I was talking to an intelligent, thoughtful Labour supporter at the weekend and he said: «I'd never vote Tory.

Not exact matches

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

From his boat, Farage - flanked by supporters including Ukip donor Arron Banks and Labour MP Kate Hoey - refused to hit back at Geldof.

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.

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

Here's a couple of thousand Corbyn supporters at a London rally booing mention of London's Labour mayor @SadiqKhan pic.twitter.com/ChI9p2n 4dS

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

It isn't perfect but at least it would allow Labour supporters to have a vote.

They fear many Labour supporters will either stay at home on June 23 or be seduced by Nigel Farage's crude populism.

The idea of encroaching into enemy territory because your own supporters have nowhere else to go is at the heart of the hollowing out of Labour.

2) Association with the Lib Dems — this was always going to make it into something of a referendum on Nick Clegg and makes it very hard to have a coherent Yes movement when Labour supporters of AV are furious at the Libs and they in turn are arrogantly insulting to Labour.

Speaking for myself I am a labour member, and PR supporter, who publicly opposed AV when labour put it in their manifesto, and opposed it at this referendum.

The thing is, most labour supporters were unhappy at blair because he was afraid of doing anything to alienate the centre.

Nor will he appear on today's new image, which is aimed at disillusioned Labour supporters.

Solidarity had a conference in Motherwell on Saturday and urged its supporters to «lend» their votes to Nicola Sturgeon's party at the general election — helping, in a small way, to increase the SNP's chances of building a left coalition against Labour.

Labour leaders since Attlee had long since ceased to take Clause IV seriously: they just thought abolition would generate more trouble among Labour supporters than the benefits to be gained at electioins since many in the electorate didn't know what Clause IV was until reminded.

If we look at UKIP supporters in Labour seats we see that:

At a lively meeting of the Labour parliamentary party, Kinnock tore into Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters:

So Labour's loss to UKIP is partly hidden by its supporters having gone through other paths prior to arriving at UKIP.

- They used anti Terror legislation to ban an 80 year old Labour supporter from their own conference for shouting «Rubbish» at JackBoot Straw AND they used anti terror legislation against Iceland - funny how it sems to fit anything that Labour or the police want it to fit Huh?

It does not aim simply at getting Labour supporters active.

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

Indeed, Tories think Labour (which they place at 1.98) is more left - wing than those Labour supporters think the Conservative Party is right - wing; they even see Labour as more left - wing than the Greens — perhaps not unreasonably given where our «objective» score places them.

With good personal contacts at the top of the Conservative Party, particularly with George Osborne and his supporters, but also with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (2010).

And Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray directly addressed Labour MPs at risk of deselection from Corbyn supporters:

It currently polls at 14 %, above Plaid Cymru, and while it's not set to win any parliamentary seats this time around, it could cream off a proportion of Labour votes, as well as woo some nationalist supporters.

So why did so many Labour supporters and progressive people reject him and work against him, intensely and passionately and often at high political and even personal risk?

The new clause would say the party exists to «bring together members and supporters who share its values to develop policies, make communities stronger through collective action and support, and promote the election of Labour representatives at all levels of the democratic process».

At the meeting, it is understood Kendall made a proposal for anyone who had identified as a British National party supporter to Labour canvassers to be excluded from the ballot.

At a separate rally, organised by Labour First, Angela Eagle, the former leadership candidate and minister, accused Corbyn's supporters of allowing a culture of abuse of MPs and Labour party staff which could lead to a form of «populist authoritarian rule».

A succession of speakers at the Labour First fringe meeting, including Hilary Benn, Ruth Smeeth and Yvette Cooper, promised to oppose the policies and practices of supporters of Corbyn just a day after the Labour leader was re-elected.

In a thinly veiled dig at Mr Corbyn's tendency to speak only to his supporters, rather than to the country as a whole, Mr Khan says he is desperate to win on Thursday to show Labour can become a party of government again.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

He is apparently shocked that only 25 % of his readers are attending annual conference in Manchester this year — is it really that surprising that most Labour supporters (many of whom won't be members at all) could take the time to attend such an event every year?

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

The matter was raised at Business Questions and a number of written parliamentary questions followed - including a number from vocal campaign supporter and Tory chairman Eric Pickles, and later came an adjournment debate initiated by Labour's David Cairns.

Both Labour and Tower Hamlets First (Rahman's slate) backed secular Muslim candidates as well as candidates whose base of support is closely associated with particular mosques — though Rahman's supporters appear «guilty» of being far more successful at winning support through those mosques.

This was seen as a swipe at the Labour First group, which is calling on Liz Kendall to ask her supporters to give their second - preference votes to Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to stop Corbyn.

Richard Howitt, the Labour MEP for the East of England, has written an article for the New Statesman today about the abuse he has received at the hands of Ukip supporters after highlighting some of the things party figures have said about the disabled.

The shadow foreign secretary will today seek to build momentum with a call to turn Labour into a «living, breathing movement for change» when he addresses supporters at a Westminster rally.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

A foul - up by the SNP had meant that the nationalist supporters gathered outside cheered Sutch, Boyle and Beckett for five minutes when they stumbled out of Perth City Hall first, while Cunningham was still trapped inside as the OMRLP (and one defecting Scottish Liberal Democrat) conducted the crowd in choral renditions of both «Spot the Loony» and «Let's All Laugh at Labour» (Labour had spent a fortune trying to win the seat for Peter Mandelson's then - aide Douglas Alexander).

Those voters switching from Labour at Westminster to SNP at Holyrood appear less opposed to Scottish independence than other Labour voters but it is difficult to see how Alex Salmond could possibly win a referendum anyway with opponents of independence outnumbering supporters by about 2 - to - 1.

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,