Sentences with phrase «liberal democrats do»

But former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, who lost his Oxford West & Abingdon seat last week, told Channel 4 News: «If the Liberal Democrats do a deal with the Conservatives delivering coalition government it will be for two reasons.

Huhne said that the Liberal Democrats don't want to make cuts, but that the present situation makes them necessary.

This whole week has been about looking forward and one thing is very clear: the Liberal Democrats don't want to go back to the opposition benches, because we aren't done yet.

As Chris Huhne has argued in Chapter 12, on climate change, Liberal Democrats do not argue that people should be prevented from flying or driving their cars, but rather that the true environmental costs of their actions should be reflected in the price that they pay when they fly or drive.

The Deputy Prime Minister has reiterated his stance that the Liberal Democrats do not support David Cameron's plans to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

The Liberal Democrats do not have the capacity or goodwill in the country to scale their modest polling revival up into something more substantial.

What, then, should the Liberal Democrats do?

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

One interesting issue in this scenario is whether Labour would seek to hasten a departure by Nick Clegg (as the Liberal Democrats did for Gordon Brown in 2010) and whether the context of being in government with Labour would affect the outcome of any Lib Dem leadership contest (for which Tim Farron is currently hotly tipped).

Incredibly the Liberal Democrats didn't see it that way.

In both general elections the Liberal Democrats did not put up a candidate and supported Dr Taylor.

The Liberal Democrats did not sign up to the Conservative formula of cutting # 4 for every # 1 raised in additional revenue and it would be impossible to pursue such a policy without adversely hurting the most vulnerable in society.

«To be fair to the Liberal Democrats they didn't have that relationship, and their abstention... is to make that point.

«If we're able, sensibly and ruthlessly actually, as the Liberal Democrats did in the 1990s to target our resources on those seats that are winnable, and there may be some fellow helpers in those areas,» he said.

«The optics of politics made it almost impossible for people to understand what Liberal Democrats did in the coalition.

There is no doubt in my mind Charles Kennedy was the key reason why the Liberal Democrats did so well in the last two general elections.

Liberal Democrats didn't just want Britain to vote for the Alternative Vote because it would have given them more MPs at nearly every general election — although it would.

They also need the connivance of at least one major party — Labour dropped out in Tatton, and the Liberal Democrats did not stand in either seat.

-LSB-...] I have to admit that, until a few months ago, I thought that Liberal Democrats did care about income inequality (indeed, even the Conservatives were claiming that they now «got» the -LSB-...]

There is a danger for Labour of not winning so many seats as uniform swing would suggest if their vote gains are disproportionately concentrated in areas where the Liberal Democrats did relatively well in 2010.

The SDP failed, but the Liberal Democrats did not.

[4] However the Liberal Democrats did gain from a defection, when in December 2013 a Welsh Harp councillor Dhiraj Kataria left Labour to join the Liberal Democrats.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

The Liberal Democrats did not promise to increase health expenditure over the Parliament or ring fence health expenditure from cuts.

Despite being the only significant party in England that opposes Brexit, the Liberal Democrats did not perform noticeably better in Remain voting areas.

Dissent among Liberal Democrats does not yet threaten the coalition, but it may one day ruin their...

Not exact matches

Ryan suggested McConnell does not have enough Republicans on board do that — because if Democrats take back Congress, «liberals will ram through» legislation.

The election stop signs were all there — but the New Democrats and the especially the Liberals didn't want to hit the brakes.

In his April letter for the fund - raiser the next month, he told employees, «America needs business and job creation, not the ruthless destruction that we are seeing from Barack Obama and his Democrats supporters, whom are Hollywood characters, liberal elitists, radical environmentalists, unionists, and Americans who do not want to work.»

For years the B.C. New Democrats have been calling on the B.C. Liberal government to step in to provide protections for the evicted tenants, but the government has neglected to do so.

«When I brought forward the British Columbia Oil and Gas Activities Amendment Act, 2014, all the Liberal government needed to do was vote yes,» said New Democrat MLA for Stikine Doug Donaldson.

«Even though Premier Clark and the B.C. Liberals are completely pre-occupied with LNG to the exclusion of other important economic sectors, they are failing to do what's needed to ensure responsible development of B.C.'s LNG potential,» said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government is ignoring a report from the City of Prince Rupert that warned that ferry service cuts will do serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy, say the New Democrats.

Only in three rural constituencies did these two parties earn at least 11 % of the vote (New Democrats Mandy Melnyk in Athabasca - Sturgeon - Redwater and Bruce Hinkley in Wetaskiwin - Camrose and Liberal Pete Helfrich in Banff - Cochrane.

VANCOUVER — A new scientific study shows that the B.C. Liberals don't have the data necessary to make informed decisions about the grizzly bear hunt in British Columbia, say New Democrats.

Nicholas Simons, New Democrat Agriculture critic expanded on how the Christy Clark Liberals» do not have a plan for agriculture, but a plan to undermine it.

And these are the ones that are changing the political, cultural, social complexion of OUR nation, and they're doing it ILLEGALLY and with the blessings of the liberal Democrats, no pun intended!

It doesn't matter where your ideologies lie — right or left, conservative or liberal, Republican, Democrat, or independent — people want to see progress.

I do know that many of these disasters that are happening lately are because some people are supporting Liberal Democrat Politicians who in turn faciliate evil laws that are against God.

It is ironic that the values of liberal democrats reflect the teachings of Christ much more faithfully than do the rigid dogmatic proclamations of conservative republicans.

You certainly have a right to your opinion about everything from gay marriage to anything else that you deem «sinful», or otherwise, but why do you feel the need to assume that everyone who shares this articles» opinion is a liberal Obama - loving Democrat?

I guess you didn't notice that the liberal former governor of New Jersey, Corzine, who is currently CEO of a Wallstreet investment firm filing Chapter 11 proceedings is a Democrat?

Having repeatedly refused to answer questions on his view of homosexuality, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron eventually stated: «I don't think gay sex... More

So at first I was afraid that my strange attraction to Galston (whose article does have various liberal idealizations I can't believe in, but still) meant I was an in - denial, deeply closeted Democrat.

I certainly don't want the Liberal Democrats just to be a party that tries to somehow get its foot in the door in Whitehall from one government to the next.

The great irony is that actually the Liberal Democrats have, excuse the pun, religiously stuck to the priorities we put on the front page of our manifesto last time, such as delivering a # 10,000 tax free allowance, which we did.

His kingdom doesn't rest in the hypocrity of the repulicans or the so called lack of conservative values of the democrats liberal party.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

How does the Liberal Democrat determine the right to birth control should trump right to religious liberty?

There are many Christian liberal Democrats; the difference is that we do not boast to be «holier than thou» Christians in order to influence others to vote Democrat.