Sentences with phrase «labour supporters did»

The basic problem is that Labour supporters do not read blogs.

While 81 per cent of the people who voted for Corbyn say they are «very» or «fairly» left - wing, a mere 15 per cent of potential Labour voters, and just 25 per cent of «weak» Labour supporters do so.

Like all Labour supporters you do not seem to realise that the public sector can only exist to the extent that the private sector generates enough income to provide the taxes to pay for it.

Not exact matches

More importantly, a CLP needs to DO it (i.e. have a closed primary open to declared Labour supporters.)

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

Yet Reg Freeson, the Labour MP who was ousted and replaced as MP by Livingstone said he did not consider the ex-London Mayor to be «anti-semitic» and as London's Mayor Livingstone supported Jewish festivals and was never short of Jews amongst his supporters.

The latest Ipsos Mori political monitor found that half of Labour supporters are now dissatisfied with the way that Corbyn is doing his job as Labour leader.

... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?

The Islington North MP retains the support of 41 per cent of Labour supporters, with nine per cent answering don't know.

He admitted that expecting Labour supporters to join the Lib Dems was «a big ask» but added: «As we stand on the edge of those two horrific realities: Brexit and a Tory stranglehold on Britain, the biggest risk is that you do not join us.

OK, that may be a slighly unrealistic wish but I think there are more things that should unite Labour and LibDem supporters than divide them, even if not all of them see it like that (it always amazes me how much some Labour supporters despise the LibDems, I don't know to what extent the feeling is reciprocated).

He can either make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or he can fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

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

But if, in its drive to be pro-business, Labour no longer prioritises these issues, it could encourage the feeling that it doesn't care about its traditional supporters.

Labour doesn't think twice about abandoning its core supporters, taking away from the most vulnerable, etc..

He argues that to win the next election, Ed Miliband needs to make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

As a consequence, nearly half of pensioners don't think Labour will ever return to power in Scotland, including one in 10 of its own supporters.

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.

Faith comes from the Labour Party's founding principles of Christian socialism, and although many supporters don't have faith themselves we recognise the import influence of Christian social teaching on our politics.

Fifty - eight per cent of Labour supporters now say he is doing a good job compared to 45 % last month.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

Corbyn supporters should assume the gates are shut — but it does not follow that they should look to other parties and leave Corbyn - led Labour to the English.

Few would query the proposition that constituency Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

Corbynistas should look on the experience of the SDP and recall that the right wing of the Labour Party (and its supporters) does have somewhere else to go.

Why — even after the turmoil of the past year — do Labour members (and # 25 supporters) still want Jeremy Corbyn to be their leader?

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?

I think all of the criticisms are hot air and hogwash from Labour supporters jealous they didn't think of it first.

It does not aim simply at getting Labour supporters active.

Overwhelmingly, Labour supporters thought the party did not deserve to lose.

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.

They do not seem to understand why Labour was so heavily defeated in 2010 (and why the Labour Party lost five million supporters between 1997 and 2010).

Add to this the understandable dejection and bitterness many Labour members and supporters would feel, if Smith were to win the Labour Right would be greatly strengthened, to the detriment of Labour offering a real alternative to the Tories (not to mention the fatal harm done to Labour's prospects of becoming a social movement).

To those Labour supporters daring to dream of success, my message is «don't get your hopes up».

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?

Corbyn is winning precisely because Labour supporters understand who he is and what he wants and don't understand the same of his rivals.

The email telling me this reads: «We have reason to believe that you do not support the aims and values of the Labour party or you are a supporter of an organisation opposed to the Labour party.»

But many Labour supporters have since decided that it is a bad idea by the simple equation: electoral reform means coalitions and Labour does not like this coalition.

Some 45 % of Labour supporters thought Mrs May was doing a good job as Prime Minister, while 39 % were happy with their own party leader's performance.

Today I have received an email from the Labour party saying: «We have reason to believe that you do not support the aims and values of the Labour party or you are a supporter of an organisation opposed to the Labour party and therefore we are rejecting your application.»

Whoever does it though would need to spend some proper time down in the places, meeting the whole membership and also local Labour supporters and hearing what they had to say.

That's why we set up our Labour campaign, headed by Alan Johnson, because we want to talk to Labour supporters and persuade them this is the right thing to do in the interests of the country and themselves, their families, their jobs, their incomes that depend on being part of this single market.

It does not do Oakeshott, or his ideas of a progressive alliance, much good if Liberal Democrat supporters do not vote Labour in the seats where he has donated money to Labour, or vice-versa.

Labour supporters should wave their patriotic flags but our pride does not come from being ruled by a monarch

She had also made a number of important social and political connections, moving as she did in a circle of increasingly influential Labour supporters, many of whom shared her belief in the need for a party shakeup.

Those polled were dismissive of the reasons offered for not holding a referendum, with 52 % saying that politicians who did not support a vote did so because they thought it would not give them the result they wanted, while 46 % of Labour supporters agreed — despite this being their party's policy.

Most current UKIP supporters (and SNP supporters) have previously voted Labour, Lib Dem or Conservative (over two thirds according to AW's churn analysis) and, since a little under half of them are not firmly committed to UKIP (Ashcroft's poll) I contend that it is not unreasonable to theorise that some may do so again in May.

Based on that statement, it's limiting itself — in a way Change.org doesn't — to Labour supporters, and not trying to «reach out» to those outside Labour.

As Labour supporters, we wish to ensure that our values of solidarity, tolerance and respect are reflected in how we do politics as well as the causes we seek to serve.

How is Jeremy Corbyn doing with all of those Labour supporters who wanted the UK to remain in the European Union?