Sentences with phrase «mp in the safe seats»

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

After all, I can't remember anyone at the height of the expenses scandal saying «If only we had AV...» Proponents of AV also claim that a new system would get supposedly lazy MPs in safe seats to work harder.

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It is also not surprising that many current MPs are opposed to electoral reform, given that they are the ones with most to lose from it, particularly those in safe seats.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

Is there any pattern in which party leaders in UK parliaments are typically from safer seats than average MPs?

In short, the new generation of Tory MPs, if tugged one way by their constituents and the other by the Whips, will go with the former (especially since no seat, now, is ever completely «safe», and local Associations are no longer reflexively loyalist).

The Tories may do well in the south of England, where they're fighting marginal seats against the Liberal Democrats — fleeing Lib Dem voters will go to Labour, which should translate into safer Tory seats — but it's in the north of England and the East Midlands where there are many Conservative MPs hanging onto their seats against Labour challengers.

Many Labour MPs, especially in northern safer seats, oppose the reform.

Selections in the safe seats 51 candidates have been selected for the seats where Conservative MPs are standing down, or where boundary changes have created new Conservative seats or converted existing ones into Conservative seats.

AV will end the scandal of safe seats for life; it will make candidates for elections work harder; it is a change supported by Benjamin Zephaniah (in urban areas) and Tony Robinson (in rural areas); it will end the expenses scandal; it will help minor parties to flourish; it is, by definition, fair, not least because it will lead to MPs who are supported by at least 50 % of their electorate.

The latest tranche of constituencies seeking a candidate was released yesterday and includes three safe seats where sitting MPs have announced their retirements in recent days.

The Winterton's «only following the rules, guv» approach is typical of the arrogance of privilege that seems all too common among MPs that sit in safe seats they have held for decades.

The «safe seat» mentality must at least be an aspect of the accusation that MPs became careless in their expenses claims and dismissive of their electorate.

None of these are «the answer» to the great disconnect, but while Westminster fails to do all it can, we know its MPs sit too complacently in their safe seats.

It suits too many of the 580 MPs in rock - solid safe seats not to bother much about the mass of non-voting young people and low earners.

The blood of some Tory MPs is up, especially in safer seats.

Sure, there have been outriders floating radical ideas about policy and party reform, yet despite the fears among MPs that there would be a period of blood - letting following Owen Smith's emphatic defeat in the second leadership election last summer, there has been no abuse of the party's internal processes by Corbyn, evidenced by the failure of his supporters to secure berths in the pre-election carve - up of safe seats.

Dalek, switching to a seat just because it is safer, without regard to the constituents you currently represent, is unprincipled, opportunistic and selfish - that is why Hywel Williams has not done that, as like all three Plaid Cymru MPs (and unlike many Labour MPs in Wales and elsewhere) he actually cares about the people he represents in Westminster.

Politics: Generally a very safe Labour seat, in various guises Salford has consistently returned Labour MPs since 1945, although Hazel Blears «majority fell sharply in 2010 after she became embroiled in the expenses scandal and was targetted by a hostile «Hazel Must Go» campaign.

How many male, white, straight Conservative MPs currently passionately campaigning for the selection of more women, and more men and women from ethnic minorities, would voluntarily relinquish their own seats in order to encourage local associations to follow the policy line they preach from their own smug, safe base?