Sentences with phrase «labour supporters think»

Most people answer questions like this according to their party polictical preference — the majority of Conservative supporters think David Cameron would be best for the environment, and the majority of Labour supporters think Gordon Brown or Tony Blair would be best for the environment... and there's the rub.

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.

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

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.

The answers were largely partisan though, with Conservative supporters tending to think he had changed policy and Labour supporters thinking he was boasting.

However, while Tories were more likely to say they did not know what would happen, nearly a quarter (23 %) of Labour supporters thought the Conservatives would be returned to office, including 16 % who thought they would get an overall majority.

Amongst Labour's own supporters only 16 % thought Miliband had the right policies and the right look / sound, 5 % of Labour supporters thought he had the right look / sound but the wrong policies, 59 % of Labour supporters thought he had the right policies but didn't look or sound like a possible Prime Minister.

Not exact matches

For example, when Maurice said that Labour should»em brace the supporters of the EDL» I would have thought that would be an ideal time for someone to speak up.

... 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?

We should not be so naive as to think that every Labour and Lib Dem supporter shares a single set of values.

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«As a Labour party supporter I'm furious, because I don't think I should have had to bring this case,» she said.

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.

Supporters of Corbyn, including his speechwriter David Prescott and press officer James Schneider, are thought to have helped local campaigner Holliday's campaign to win the Copeland nomination for Labour.

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.

Remembering that the # 3 supporters idea was from the New Labour wing of the party, they must have thought there was there was more public support for them outside of the current membership.

We're fighting hard for a majority, who knows how things will turn out, I think, look, very many Labour Party members, voters, supporters, would find that very difficult and some Liberal Democrat voters would find that very difficult as well, but we'll deal with the situation as we find it.

Of course the response was highly skewed by the loyalty of Conservative and Labour supporters — interesting that 12 per cent of those who voted Labour in 2010 think Cameron a better PM, and 9 per cent of those who say they will vote Conservative in the next election think Brown was a better chancellor than Osborne.

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Others are identifying themselves as Labour supporters or free - market Lib Dems or working with think tanks trying to push conservative views in different directions to take the pain away.

In space of eight hours Labour supporters have gone from thinking their man would be in Downing St to wondering who their next leader is.

Part of the reaction to him is fear I think, from the left of the party and also from the many labour supporters who read and comment on this blog.

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

YouGov surveyors have even built this thinking into its polling of the views of Labour supporters in their recent Labour Tribes poll.

Amongst Labour supporters 41 % think the strikes should be supported, 14 % opposed and 34 % neither.

Many of those voters, especially in the West Midlands and the north, were traditionally Labour supporters, but with the collapse of UKIP, many of them were thought to lean to the Conservatives.

In asking Labour / former Labour supporters of their views on a number of issues they categorised those supporters by asking, «Which of the following do you think best reflects that the Labour Party should stand for»: «anti capitalist»; «representing the working class»; «building a fairer society».

Answers to the latter question remain very split along partisan lines — a majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters want Osborne replaced, amongst the Conservative party's own supporters 29 % think that Osborne should go, 47 % that he should stay.

After the shock result of the UK's 2015 General Election, one could forgive Labour and Conservative supporters for thinking that things could hardly get worse for the former party, or better for the latter.

After his speech at London's shard, and flanked by Alan Johnson, Yvette Cooper and Harriet Harman, he told supporters: «I think it's up to to us now to persuade Labour supporters to come out and vote.»

«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.»

Corbyn won a huge mandate among Labour members in 2015, and almost 130,000 more people have joined the party since the referendum on Britain's EU membership, many of them thought also to be Corbyn supporters.

Labour members and supporters knew what Labour MPs thought of Corbyn when they voted for him: they naively expected MPs to change the views of their lifetimes and to offer Corbyn the loyal service which he had never offered them.

Research from Ipsos Mori also found that 49 % of voters think that Miliband should be replaced, including 43 % of Labour supporters.

It would have been interesting to hear from more Labour supporters since the election on what they thought went wrong (apart from not winning enough votes), but I assume a lot of them are not in the mood for visiting sites like this at the moment.

Labour's Lord Mandelson, a keen supporter of electoral reform, said: «I think that's very disappointing, but I'm equally entirely unsurprised by it.

If Liam Byrne is so agreeved, why doesn't he think about why his stance over the Bedroom Tax lead to «Scottish» Labour politician after «Scottish» Labour politician receive ritual beatings by pro-Independence supporters on the Scottish Media.

Any reason to believe from my post I support austerity, I just don't think Kendall is a Tory and other so called labour supporters shouldn't say this anymore than I should say Corbyn for SWP leader, I haven't tried to get pope ousted from the party unless they break the rules, endorse criminals or non Labour Party mlabour supporters shouldn't say this anymore than I should say Corbyn for SWP leader, I haven't tried to get pope ousted from the party unless they break the rules, endorse criminals or non Labour Party mLabour Party members

Stop secretly wanting a Labour collapse in order to get rid of JC, how dare people who think like this call themselves any supporters of social based politics.

Sadiq Khan or David Lammy or even Oona King would be better candidates, but I think that she'll stand and all of Ken's lot and the unions will back her, give her the selection and she'll lose to Seb Coe unless there is an open primary for the Mayoral selection which I hope happens as a Labour supporter.

If anyone doubts that this is the case I would suggest they knock on few doors in their own towns and cities to ascertain what Labour supporters really think of our present leadership.