Sentences with phrase «labour supporters who»

In addition the bias itself was later put down to the fact that the opinion polls had included too many Labour supporters who had lost the right to vote by moving.

In particular, a vigorous «yes» campaign among Labour voters could sway the result, because it is Labour supporters who have shifted most strongly since June from «yes» to «no».

We already know that a large proportion of Labour supporters who voted for Brexit will never vote for the party again.

There are plenty of staunch Labour supporters who believe he and his team are the reason that the polls still show the two main parties neck and neck.

There have also been complaints from hundreds of Labour supporters who claim their attempts to vote are being blocked.

• Labour supporters who switched to the Tories early in the campaign, were scared off by the dementia tax and the possible return of fox hunting, and have come back to the fold • Supporters of smaller parties - the Lib Dems, the Greens and to a lesser extent Ukip - switching to Labour • Young voters

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.

I've met Labour supporters who are anti-Semitic and hate America with a passion.

In July 2012, a member of Scottish Labour started Labour for Independence, a rebel group of Labour supporters who back Yes Scotland in the campaign for Scottish independence.

This is particularly true for many (former) Labour supporters who have been left behind by the global economy and technological change — people who left school early and lack academic or vocational qualifications.

While this is dwarfed by the nearly 200,000 new members who have joined since May 2015, it suggests that there are dissatisfied natural Labour supporters who could make up the nucleus of a new party.

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.

My two preferred explanations are that people who did not vote claim they did (and tend to claim they voted Labour) and that Labour supporters who voted tactically for the Liberal Democrats in their own particular constituency claim they voted for the party that they actually supported, rather than the party they voted for.

The row looks set to carry and Baldwin's intervention will doubtless be welcomed by Labour supporters who are baffled by the Tory bias claims.

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

Going forward I believe that there is huge potential for UKIP to win over many more traditional Labour supporters who have been left behind by the modern day Labour Party.

This time, however, and faced with a local Labour surge built in part on Labour supporters who had voted tactically for the Lib Dems but felt betrayed by the coalition with the Conservatives, Hallam's Lib Dems changed tack.

I look forward to you and other Labour supporters who bang on about social justice etc making yourself look like hypocrites.

It suggests that what has happened in the last month is that Labour supporters who had been disillusioned with Brown's government, but in most cases hadn't embraced the Conservatives as the alternative and were just dismissing the lot of them, have been won back over.

«Of course we need to win back Labour supporters who voted Tory in May,» he said.

[1] More generally, the key voters are Labour supporters who are voting in the local / devolved parliament elections and who aren't interested in electoral reform.

Gordon Brown's election campaign was thrown into turmoil today after he was caught on mic calling a Labour supporter who had challenged him over the economy and immigration a «bigoted woman».

As a committed Labour supporter who has been immersed in the political and economic arguments over Britain's place in the European integration project for some forty years — from my role in overseeing JML expand its business beyond Britain to acting as Secretary of Labour Euro - Safeguards Campaign since 1975 — my views have evolved as the European Union has radically changed form.

Not exact matches

Her replacement is tipped to be a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn unlike Dugdale, who repeatedly criticised the Labour leader during her tenure

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.

Commissioned in 1974 by the International Brigade Association in Scotland (IBASS), who raised the sculptor's # 3,000 fee through an appeal to trade unionists and supporters of the Labour movement in Scotland, it was unveiled by union leader and civil war veteran Jack Jones, who died earlier this year.

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.

How to campaign enough to ensure Labour supporters get out and vote without looking to be in partnership with those who seem to regard these very supporters with contempt?

10:54 - Hague gives way to Keith Vaz, another Labour supporter of a referendum, who asks whether Cameron will be able to cope with the renegotiations between 2015 and 2017.

Most of the Corbyn supporters I've spoken to are neither cunning Trotskyites nor hapless fools, they're ordinary people who believe that the Labour party should consistently stand for certain values.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

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.

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

Speaking for myself I am a labour member, and PR supporter, who publicly opposed AV when labour put it in their manifesto, and opposed it at this referendum.

Probably because the parliamentary Labour party, which overwhelmingly backs Smith, still clings onto the illusion that no matter how obnoxiously the party behaves towards its core supporters, it is still entitled to millions of votes from poor voters who have no alternative.

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Even (some) London Tories like Ken and I've got a Labour supporter pal who voted for Boris!!

Two years away from a general election 66 % of current Labour supporters say will definitely vote for the party, compared to 58 % of Conservatives supporters who say they will vote for their preferred party.

These rigorous analyses add support to the argument that those supporters who left Labour over immigration moved onto UKIP and that Labour to Conservative defectors are prime targets for UKIP

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».

«While all of the individuals setting up Momentum are members or supporters of the Labour party, the group anticipates that many thousands of people who are not [Labour supporters] will be involved in the wider social movement».

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.

But it's not just former Tory voters who want to give all the parties a kicking; many traditional Labour supporters are also tempted to vote «none of the above».

The first is affiliated supporters, which consist of individual trade unionists who have indicated that they wish their party affiliation fees (funded from the political levy, a small sum of money in addition to normal union dues and used for political campaigning) to be paid directly to the Labour Party rather than via their trade unions as they have historically been.

We have surveyed 2,026 members and registered supporters of the Labour Party who joined it after the May 2015 general election.

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 the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

As noted in a previous post, this follows rule changes turning the Labour leadership contest into a fully «one member one vote» process, and giving voting rights to «supporters» who signed up for just # 3.

The hammer of Militant Tendency in Liverpool was the Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle, who became an early supporter of Tony Blair.