Sentences with phrase «labour voters because»

Ben Redsell: Morrison's voters are Labour voters because they tend to be pile it high sell it cheap merchants and they are prone to be aimed at those people who are living entirely on benefits.

Vitally though, he shouldn't entirely alienate Labour voters because they place him exactly on 0.

Not exact matches

New Labour had run out of steam and - partly, but not solely, because of the Iraq war - lost the trust of voters.

Labour's problem is that its line on this is quite fuzzy and confusing, largely because its target voters are split straight down the middle on the issue.

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.

Brexit is in some respects an even more potent issue for them because it brings together a wider group of the electorate, with pro-EU Conservatives and Labour voters wondering how to reverse the march towards the cliff's edge.

Cat Smith's suggestion that demographics are on Labour's side — because individuals turning 18 are statistically likely to be leftwing, whereas Tory voters are mainly pensioners — was greeted with derision, but I was sat on that same panel and it wasn't the only thing she said.

The reason Labour voters are flocking to Ukip and the SNP is because they believe they will fight for them.

Gordon Brown's «bigotgate» disaster helped bring down the New Labour government because by writing off Duffy, Brown was writing off millions of other voters too.

As in Scotland when pro-independence Labour voters switched to the SNP because of Labour's support for Cameron rendering Scottish Labour a pointless electoral alliance that can never be elected again.

A Labour official justified floating the plans in the Mail because it was important to speak to key swing voters, but the decision is bound to prove controversial with those who fear Miliband is weakened by sending out mixed messages on migration.

Ms Cooper, who confirmed she would run in a column for the Daily Mirror, said Labour had lost the election because the party did not show voters it «had the answers to match up with their ambitions».

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

What this does highlight however is a broader issue: the Labour leadership are aware of all the above but there is no simple answer because voters themselves are contradictory.

All those Labour voters who voted no, either to stick it to Clegg or because they wanted proportional representation.

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.

Tony Blair would never have risked losing because voters feared a Labour government would be profligate.

In 2012, Kellner reckoned that one - in - ten Labour voters backed Johnson for mayor, partly because they liked the Tory candidate and partly because they disliked Livingstone.

I wrote earlier this year that pessimism about the UK economy could be Labour's biggest problem in 2015, because voters may simply think Labour can not do any better.

That would really hurt in 2015 because Labour voters could think that even if the party has nice ideas, those policies are simply not credible.

Those Labour delegates who booed Tony Blair in Ed Miliband's speech last week were also «booing the millions of voters who once turned to Labour because they thought Labour had changed», Osborne said.

Two thirds of Labour voters backed Remain because Jeremy travelled the length and breadth of the country making that case.»

People in the Labour movement generally believe swing voters to be ignorant (because they did not understand what Labour had achieved), credulous (because they believed what they read in the right - wing press) and selfish (because they thought only of their own interests, rather than public services and the poor).

Labour is recovering under Corbyn and McDonnell primarily because voters are starting to believe in their economic policies, and that they will be better off as a result.

According to the Labour movement, the party lost because voters did not fully appreciate what it had achieved, they were influenced by the right - wing media, and although Labour had the right policies, it did not manage to communicate them effectively.

I'm not wasting much time on Lords reform, which has excited so much media interest, largely because the very public feuding between coalition factions, peers and the Labour party in recent days confirm the hunch that it isn't going to get far, doesn't deserve to do so, and that most voters won't notice or care.

A majority in the Labour movement believe the party lost the election because its traditional core supporters decided not to vote Labour, not because middle class swing voters went to other parties.

«I think we have a good shot at taking over from Labour as the opposition because Labour are imploding and Labour voters for the first time ever have defied their party, voting for leave,» Banks said on Wednesday.

Aggressive, because he hopes that it will put pressure back on Labour to either back English votes for English MPs and therefore nobble themselves in a future government, or refuse and be at odds with a majority of English voters who back such a measure.

They made the self - serving claim that voters were turning to the breakaway SDP and to Margaret Thatcher because the Labour party was not left - wing enough.

If Labour need to make a break from New Labour then get rid of Blair because it stinks of his control within Labour at the moment, saying immigration is a Tory problem would make the public laugh out loud, saying we did make some mistakes, to try and get UKIP voters back, will not work, you tried to change the voting pattern by bringing in poor immigrants who did not end up voting.

Even so, the economy determined both elections: in 1992, because voters were scared of the taxes they would have to pay under Labour; in 1997, because the Conservatives never recovered from the humiliation of the pound crashing out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday more than four years earlier.

«We're only any of us in parliament because of the work of Labour party members and supporters and, of course, voters - and I urge them to recognise that.

Diane Abbott has never held any kind of ministerial post so lacks experience, she only stood because she wanted to give voters in the Labour Party an alternative.

The swing against Labour here in Tottenham will be greater than in most places because local voters know that David Lammy is a particularly useless MP.

Purnell said that Labour should be more honest about the looming cuts because voters knew the choice would be between Tory cuts and Labour cuts.

Because of these failings, Labour has also failed in its obligation to run local and parliamentary selection contests in a way that commands the confidence of voters.

The pamphlet suggests that Labour supporters might wish to dump their local MP because they are «too detached from the opinions and priorities of the Labour - loyal voters who sent him or her to SW1 0AA in the first place».

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said that white working class voters and trade unionists had already deserted the party for Ukip, because of Labour's support for immigration.

Voters also turned away from Labour at the last election because of a fear that «a Labour government would spend and borrow too much» and a sense that the country had been moving in the «right direction» under David Cameron.

Voters did not reject Labour because they saw it as austerity lite.

Of course, there are also traditional Labour voters turning away from the party specifically because of him.

Voters rejected Labour because they perceived the Party as anti-austerity lite,» Cruddas wrote on the LabourList website.

It will legitimise them because in marginal seats Labour will have to chase the second preferences of UKIP / BNP voters.

This article & many of the comments seem to be about how Labour can get back conservative voters who used to vote fot you because you played up to their prejudices afainst outsiders of various sorts.

This isn't just bad news for Tory party unity post-referendum, but also makes it harder to get Labour voters to support In because it drowns out Labour's message.

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

We see Labour - Green alliances in London mayoral elections, because of preferential voting, while under first - past - the - post parties who might appeal to similar voters must be attacked as a «wasted» vote.

I have become a Green voter because they oppose this bankrupt philosophy, and will not vote Labour unless JC or someone like him leads the party.

I now have no idea what Labour stands for and I'm a wannabe Labour voter, but I voted Green Party at the last election because the Labour message was so so dilute and incoherent that I couldn't make sense of it.