Sentences with phrase «labour supporters see»

Many Labour supporters see Lib.

Labour supporters see swing voters, whom they must win back if they are going to return to government, as ignorant, credulous and selfish.

Labour supporters seeing the Lib Dems sitting on their hands and saying nothing may never forget.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is seen by a large swathe of her supporters - particularly those voters who have abandoned Labour - as a socialist standard - bearer.

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).

It is encouraging to see the labour leadership inching closer to alignment with ithe vast majority of its members and supporters in the country.

I'm now back in a very snowy Washington — waiting to see if the Republican Party's core supporters are as «mad» as the Labour Party's Corbynistas — in both of the most common understandings of that word.

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

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

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.

In other words, it could be seen as being not about getting Labour supporters active, but about getting the «right» kind of supporters active.

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.

The party saw huge numbers of their supporters reject their calls to back the union, with much of the shift to «Yes» in the final weeks coming from current and former Labour supporters.

In the seven - minute address, the former Labour leader calls on Mr Corbyn's supporters to «wake up» or the see the party face electoral wipeout.

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.

She was seen as loyal to New Labour - she was one of the most committed of the party's modernisers and even in her time on Redditch Borough Council, she was a strong supporter of Mr Blair.

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.

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,

It is indeed a pity that Corbyn was captured by the dominance of «free marketeers» in Labour and seen to be sided with what in my CLP, outside of a small group of Supporters (not necessarily0 members), looked liked a Conservative - Labour Coalition.

I just can not see the party going for this all over again, and the attempts by the media and the respective supporters of Blair and Brown to re-run the fun of the new Labour years with brotherly in - fighting and strife brings out a windy sigh of, «Must we?»

For some of Labour's core white working class supporters, a defence of an outward - looking Britain would be seen as precisely the metropolitan elitism Farage is so adept at criticising.

Regardless of why the videos were originally made, as PEB's they don't fit, its rather hard to see who in the wider public (outside labour supporters) they are for.

Margaret Hodge recently saw her backing from Labour supporters climb from 10 per cent to a substantial 16 per cent.

While Labour and Conservative politicians shy away from the debate on drugs, around half their supporters want to see legal regulation of cannabis production and supply,» a Transform spokesperson said.

He stumbles a bit and takes long pauses, all of which come across as highly amateurish to me, but the standard Corbyn health warning applies: what most journalists see as amateurish in the Labour leader is regarded as refreshingly authentic by his supporters.

The next election will see a big turnout by Labour and Conservative supporters and where Liberal Democrat MP's do survive it will be solely due to tactical voting, UKIP could even make a breakthrough in a couple of seats but I think Labour will still win, so it will be more strongly toward a 2 party system but with the strongest 4th party performance in UK history.

It is far too easy for Labour supporters to rant on about the plots of the Tory press; we should stand back and soberly reflect that — at this time — so many see May as more effective political leader than Corbyn.

There are old Labour supporters who see Ukip nibbling into the party's working - class base in the north of England and urge tougher positions in response.

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

The Labour leader's parliamentary critics have recently been keeping relatively quiet and waiting to see if Corbyn's supporters will turn on him — or if he will decide to go of his own accord.

Looking at the position of party supporters with respect to these two dimensions, we see that Conservative supporters stand to the right of the political spectrum in economic terms and Labour and the Greens on the left, as traditionally envisioned.

Others will want to see him fulfil his promise to mobilise his supporters into a Labour campaigning organisation.

Amongst Labour's current supporters Diane Abbott is seen as the worst candidate on 22 %, followed by Balls on 13 %.

42 % think it has — this includes 35 % of Labour supporters, but they overwhelmingly see this is a good thing.

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.

There were no polls, for example, of Labour party members when Ed Miliband had been in the job for a few months that we can compare to see if David Miliband supporters had rallied round the leader or all still wanted Ed to resign.

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 thelabour 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 theLabour for the 1st time in their lives in 97 ′ did it with caution, of fear of labour returning to thelabour 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.

Labour supporters tend to see the Lib Dems as not having much influence in government.

The play will stir a lot of emotions for Labour supporters, especially through the news montages: we see Ed Miliband on the screen, and feel a sense of disappointment, then cringe at Neil Kinnock delivering his «We're all right» line again and again at Sheffield in 1992.

The Liberal Democrats have also left open the possibility of a deal with Labour, with the implication that they would see eye - to - eye on welfare reform — another reason for Labour supporters to vote tactically for the third party.

«I think the litmus test for so much of this is that because I believe the Labour party is a broad church I would always consider people like Jeremy and his supporters to be in a party that I'm a member of the difference is that they would never see me as being in a party that they would want to be members of.»

So my estimation is that Labour supporters are resigned to defeat but see it as a way to bounce back with a healthier and more natural Labour party.

Some of them were not Labour supporters precisely because the Blair - Brown governments were seen as too business friendly and anti-union.

Out of the shadow cabinet's heavy hitters, Andy Burnham is untouchable at health, Chuka Umunna is seen as having done a good job maintaining Labour's strained links with business, and any lateral move for Yvette Cooper would have been viewed as a demotion, enraging Ed Balls and his supporters.

In so many ways it encapsulates the cynical view of core Labour supporters and values as something to be manipulated and managed by an all - seeing bureaucracy.