Sentences with phrase «operation black vote»

Simon Woolley is one of the founders and Director of Operation Black Vote, which campaigns to address the black political democratic deficit.

Yewande Okuleye will be shadowing Liberal Democrat Tom Brake MP as part of «Operation Black Vote» MP Shadowing Scheme

Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, which ran a high - profile campaign featuring prominent black British stars with white faces, welcomed the progress made but added: «Although this is encouraging and a positive development, it's simply not good enough in terms of composition of parliament.

Labour MPs David Lammy and Tulip Siddiq and Operation Black Vote's Simon Woolley are among those who have called for the party to step up efforts to choose BAME candidates.

The Fabian Society concludes that there is no need for parties to choose candidates from all - black shortlists, an idea that pressure groups such as Operation Black Vote are pushing and that the Government is considering.

That cheap sneer (fruit cakes and closet racists, backed up by his sister - in - law using a quote from Operation Black Vote)-RRB- did UKIP a lot of good.

, Operation Black Vote («Anything that increases the likelihood of people to play a full and positive role in the democratic process is to be applauded.»)

«If Baroness Warsi thinks that AV will benefit fascism she has to explain why the BNP wants to stick with what we have and Operation Black Vote supports AV,» Mr Huhne said.

A study by Operation Black Vote found there are more ethnic minorities than the majority of the incumbent MP in 168 constituencies — up from 99 in 2010.

His comments come after an Operation Black Vote study found the number of seats where black and Asian votes could swing the election result had increased by 70 % since 2010.

He has powdered his face to «whiten up» for the Operation Black Vote campaign to warn Britain's ethnic minority communities that not voting will «take the colour out of Britain».

Operation Black Vote (OBV) has accused Zac Goldsmith of encouraging the «politics of division», as anger over his leaflets targeting ethnic minorities worsened.

Operation Black Vote last week accused Goldsmith of encouraging the «politics of division» in the city.

Not exact matches

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

«I am seriously in the mindset of running,» said Michael Blake, 31, Obama's first black staffer in Iowa in 2008 and the 2012 national deputy of the President's Operation Vote.

«Scott has got to put money into an operation to appeal to the black vote, and he's now begun to do that,» said one of the state's best - known African - American officials, a Stringer backer who acknowledged that he's worried Spitzer will win the Sept. 10 primary.

OBV is very quick to mark the selection of a black Labour candidate in a difficult - to - win seat but nearly one week after Kwasi Kwarteng was adopted as the candidate for a safe Tory seat there is no mention on Operation Red Black Vote's black Labour candidate in a difficult - to - win seat but nearly one week after Kwasi Kwarteng was adopted as the candidate for a safe Tory seat there is no mention on Operation Red Black Vote's Black Vote's site.

In an effort to appeal beyond the Dominican vote, Alcantra's campaign has been targeting women regardless of their ethnicity or geography in campaign mailers in the district, as well as black voters, according to a person familiar with the campaign's operations.