Sentences with phrase «libdem ones»

On the ground, we've always thought that it's easier to take Labour votes than Tory - gone - LibDem ones - and that's been true - at last we have a leader who wants to do something about that!

The economy may have played stronger as an argument in the old Conservative heartlands, and some of the LibDem ones, where the recovery is more apparent and deprivation less so.

These open negotiations are surely compromised (for what it's worth, it seemed Cameron acted in good faith almost all the way through) How does Cameron feel about being played and how do the Tory backbenchers feel knowing that they gave the LibDems the one thing they wanted (and the Cons desperately didn't) on false pretences?

Not exact matches

I tend to think that the decision facing the Tories is a rather straightforward one, and it essentially consists of not trying to face two ways at once - do you secure your base, who really are losing faith (simple longing for power is all that seems to be keeping the ship afloat for the time being), or do you keep on flirting with LibDem / floating voters and hope that gets you over the line?

In answer to your question, I see no moral difference between that situation on the one hand and the formation of a formal LibDem - Labour coalition on the other.

There's a fair bunch of people who will either vote Labour or LibDem, depending on which one looks most leftmost (and likely to get in in their constituency), but who would never vote Tory, certainly not after Thatcher.

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 about it.

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

But no - one expected the LibDems to end up with fewer than 20 seats.

I suspect rather too much discussion of hung Parliaments assumes the scenario is always one where the LibDems can put either party over the majority line.

Given Next Left's own analysis of - for instance - tackling Poverty and inequality (and bearing in mind the LibDems current offer is regressive), what advantages would their have been to a lib / lab Government over the last decade, as compared to a solely Labour one?

BillerickyDickie is about Iraq now, no one cares, look at the Libdems opposed to it, had worse result ever,

Back in January, there were three questions from LibDem MPs - Martin Horwood, Michael Moore and Paul Burstow — who were defeated in the party's general election rout and not one from the SNP.

Target one - LibDem MP David Laws: Oborne reveals that key Orange Booker David Laws was offered a shadow cabinet position if he defected to the Conservatives.

One aspect of this discrimination was recently highlighted by LibDem MP David Laws.

That is why it has high approval ratings from Tory voters, and much lower ones even from that half of the LibDem vote which is sticking with them.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

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Vince Cable rightly castigates top pay excesses — and to give him credit, no - one else in this government of millionaires is doing so — but the solutions he put forward yesterday to the LibDem conference are worth little more than a bucket of warm spit.

The need for Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.

What this is about is the Guardian's desire to split the Labour Party and get one of its remnants to join up with the laughable LibDems - a position the Guardian has pursude forever in various guises.

Virginia Taylor, Tory candidate for the seat in 2001 and 2005, did a terrific job in moving the seat into one of the top possibilities for a Tory gain over the LibDems at the next General Election.

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His affair, Iain blogged, does not change the fact that he is «one of the most talented LibDems in the Commons».

I for one am at a loss to understand why Labour doesn't enter into a permanent coalition with the LibDems.

Now that all the main parties have converged — you couldn't put a rizla paper between the modernised Tories, One Nation Labour and the Orange Book LibDems — there is little point in voting Labour, unless you happen to think Miliband will be a prettier occupant of Number 10.