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Perhaps we'll see a lot more Labour supporters on the site - complaining about the govt and a lot less Tories supporters, who are now relieved that their party is in power.

The comment by Liam Byrne was shocking not only to me but other Labour supporters on the blog.

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.

An anonymous Labour supporter on what the leadership got wrong and why it's going to pay the price

Not exact matches

Parliamentarians and socialists in the UK and Europe are calling on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's Labour Party and a longtime supporter of Venezuela's leadership, to denounce the Venezuelan government in light of recent events.

The reaction: Union supporters were dismayed to learn the products on offer are not, as a rule, made by unionized labour.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

Former minister Stephen Byers has called on fellow supporters of Tony Blair to unite behind new Labour leader Gordon Brown.

But while Corbyn's triumph has been welcomed by many Labour party members and supporters keen to see a broad debate, many others would have preferred to see the anti-austerity candidate staying on the sidelines.

Joe Hall has 1,200 supporters on the social networking website, compared to just 261 for Conservative candidate Nigel Huddleston and 221 for Labour's Gavin Shuker.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

But Graham is even more fascinated by the Labour leader's most fervent supporters and the way that the party appears to have transformed since Corbyn arrived on the scene.

Dugdale's comments prompted many of Corbyn supporters on Twitter to question whether the Scottish Labour leader had the credentials to speak out on how to win elections...

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.

Supporters - they will be people on Labour Supporters Networks - but these are gathered in a variety of ways including on the doorstep.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

They would just have to sign a declaration that they were a Labour supporter say a week in advance of the selection (but I wouldn't be overly concerned if it was on the day either.)

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.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

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.

Labour supporters are turning on Jeremy Corbyn following his handling of the Brexit vote, new polling suggests.

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

For Labour to turn its back on Scotland and the demands north of the border would be to condemn itself to precisely the sort of Tory - lite message its former supporters accuse it of.

This makes the focus of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party on rail fares somewhat confusing: Corbyn's supporters and detractors alike agree he has shifted the party to the left, to concentrate on the party's «real» voters and issues.

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.

Building on experience gleaned from the inevitable secondment to the Obama campaign, he was poached by Miliband, for whom he successfully recruited young Labour supporters, and bloggers, to the cause.

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

Clearly even supporters of the Yes Campaign within the Labour Party such as Jack Straw have now no appetite for further discussion on this subject.

By contrast Polly Toynbee in the Guardian on Thursday made a well argued case for classic anti-Tory tactical voting by Green and Labour supporters.

The big one is the Labour government is aloowing NHS medical records to be processed in India (Today's the Times on - line) Why the Libdems and labour supporters are not exercised aboLabour government is aloowing NHS medical records to be processed in India (Today's the Times on - line) Why the Libdems and labour supporters are not exercised abolabour supporters are not exercised about it.

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.

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.

Low - April 9th: Tactical votes - Lord Adonis, Labour's transport minister, stepped right into vulnerable Lib Dem territory, by calling for Lib Dem supporters to vote Labour where only they can take on the Conservatives.

The idea that UKIP are picking up old Labour supporters is also not supported by evidence on the social class of their intended voters.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

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.

After a barrage of bad press over his position on Trident and his flip - flop over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy for armed terrorists, you'd expect Jeremy Corbyn's stock to be sinking fast, even among the most starry eyed of the «Jez - we - can» supporters who voted him in as leader of the Labour party in September.

Ed Miliband has announced that to counter the Conservative party's financial advantage during the 2015 election campaign Labour will outnumber them in supporters out on the streets engaging with voters — and will benefit accordingly.

A third of Labour supporters voted «Yes», with many members leaving the party in frustration with its position on the referendum, a position which involved little consultation.

On the other hand, enthusiastic Conservatives are having none of it — to them Labour is far more left - wing than its own enthusiastic supporters think.

Labour have not come out with a policy on the referendum and there is no concensus among labour supporters about it, or much interest Labour have not come out with a policy on the referendum and there is no concensus among labour supporters about it, or much interest labour supporters about it, or much interest in it.

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.

An eight - point gap is substantially better than the gap between the two men's general approval ratings (the last Opinium poll for the Guardian put Mr Cameron on -1 and Mr Miliband on -24), so Labour supporters may well consider the showing a win too.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has since made clear in an interview with the Independent newspaper that she is not a supporter of «cosying up» to the Liberal Democrats, on the basis that Labour may rely on the Lib Dems in the event of another hung parliament in 2015.

Someone who although a staunch Labour supporter, would happily put aside his tribal allegiances and engage with those on the other side of the political fence.

17.48 - Labour MP John Woodcock has just delivered a withering attack on both Corbyn and his supporters for their «angry intolerant pacifism»

This importance resulted in the parliamentary debate secured by Steve Rotheram, the Labour MP for Liverpool Walton, on the role of football supporters in the governance of professional football clubs being one of the best attended Westminster Hall debates ever.