«
Labour supporters need to use their noddle and ask themselves why Cameron is fighting so hard for a No vote.
Pollsters say
Labour supporters need to back AV by more than two to one if the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is to emerge on top.
But more than that,
Labour supporters need to take that cause back into their own party.
Not exact matches
More importantly, a CLP
needs to DO it (i.e. have a closed primary open to declared
Labour supporters.)
The
need to pander to a critical mass of
Labour activists and
supporters is crushing the life out of the contest, and destroying the chance of any meaningful debate.
... 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 fact is that the New
Labour governments were well to the right of the vast majority of
Labour supporters, and clearly
needed correction, but let that pass.
Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a
supporter of the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, said Fox «
needs to understand that he is talking about people not poker chips».
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.
Labour supporters often point to the social rights provided by the EU as evidence of the
need to stay in.
Titled, «Questions all Jeremy Corbyn
supporters need to answer», Jones argues
Labour are heading for a disaster due to a lack of strategy from Corbyn's team, and asks
supporters the following: How can the disastrous polling be turned around?
Equally important
Labour needs to arm its core
supporters with the arguments against the vilification of Muslims to ensure they are not seduced by UKIP and Tory reactionary propaganda.
«Of course we
need to win back
Labour supporters who voted Tory in May,» he said.
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.
This is the type of open and frank discussion between all levels of party
supporters that we
need to have, if we're going to defeat
Labour in 2015.
But as a general principle, it would be nuts to allow the
supporters of other parties to choose a
Labour party candidate, for reasons that ought not to
need explanation.
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.
What the
Labour Party
needs is a leader of substance, someone who's been around the block a bit and can connect with a range of
supporters across the social spectrum.
Elsewhere in the interview, Streeting provides his take on why
Labour lost the last election and says the party now
needs to pick a leader who is «thinking about how they win the country» not just
Labour supporters.
Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have long argued against the
need for such a vote and opinion in the other parties has been shifting, even if there continue to be vocal
supporters of a referendum within the Conservatives and
Labour.
These are people that
need to be properly engaged with if
Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same
Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about
labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same
labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same thing.
At a time when Jeremy Corbyn appears to be alienating more
Labour supporters than he is winning over, this has looked like the most viable strategy for a party that
needs to reinvent itself after securing its headline goal.
This is the reality check which both those on the left and the 200 or so Green Party members who have registered as
Labour supporters to vote for Corbyn,
need to face.
This poses a «Brexit dilemma», the study says, pointing out that
Labour needs to somehow appeal more to leave voters without alienating existing
supporters who opposed Brexit.
Jeremy
supporters, including John Lansman told people to use Conrads Liz endall for tory leader facebook page, o it they were say Liz get your tits out for the tories there were known Jeremy
supporters putting up, twitter comments about, Yvette being a Nazi bitch and for people to rape liz kendall, these weren't pretend Corbyn
supporters, yes congratulate the Corbyn win, but this sort odf stuff
needs to be kicked out the
labour party.
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.
This is good news for
Labour supporters, who may
need a lot more of it over the next few years if Winston's diagnosis is correct.
What's really important is that, in future,
Labour does have leadership elections, not coronations, when it
needs to, and that the process ensures that future
Labour Leaders do not lose touch with both the party and its
supporters as happened in the New
Labour years.
We've heard from
Labour supporters, now we
need to listen to the public.
59 % of people agreed that
Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of
Labour's own
supporters), 70 % that «
Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of
Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «
Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If
Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».
Crudely put, Britain is increasingly Southern and middle class; for
Labour to win they
need to appeal to southern, middle class voters as well as their traditional working class
supporters.
Well to the right of
labour supporters, I appreciate we lost supporters after 97 ′ mainly staying at home in 2001 as another landslide meant they didn't need to vote, and liberal interventionism, of Afghanisatan Eastern Europe, saw some supporters withdrawal support before Iraq, remember this ex Tory voters who voted Labour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of labour returning to the
labour supporters, I appreciate we lost
supporters after 97 ′ mainly staying at home in 2001 as another landslide meant they didn't
need to vote, and liberal interventionism, of Afghanisatan Eastern Europe, saw some
supporters withdrawal support before Iraq, remember this ex Tory voters who voted
Labour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of labour returning to the
Labour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of
labour returning to the
labour returning to the 80 ’s
That's happened because Ed's recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother's
supporters, and some of Ed's people see a
need to spin away the role played in Ed's victory by the two - thirds of the electorate who voted as union members, hence the suggestion that
Labour «
supporters» be added in some way to the electorate.
«I was elected by hundreds of thousands of
Labour party members and
supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics... I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me — or the millions of
supporters across the country who
need Labour to represent them.
«
Labour members and
supporters will now select a candidate for Prime Minister who can offer the change working people and Britain
needs.
I am essentially a
supporter of Starmer's & Corbyn's line on the EU and believe that
Labour needs to reserve the right to vote against a final deal if it is clearly contrary to the interests of British people as the party sees it, though complete opposition to Brexit at this stage would in my view be wrong.