Sentences with phrase «party unelectable»

All that has happened is that the hapless Owen Smith's pathetic «I'm a Bevanite» Summer long Leadership challenge will now be simply dismissed by the Right as «just part of an endless process of sabotage and disruption, to make a Left oriented Labour Party unelectable».

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) has sought to downplay the influence of Momentum, portraying it as a collection of fringe radicals who will make the party unelectable to the more mainstream voter.

Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham have all attacked Corbyn's plans, saying they are not credible and will make the party unelectable.

The real issue is that his strategy makes the party unelectable because it is in many aspects undesirable.

New Labour figures believe any move to the left makes the party unelectable, but many figures in the party think voters need a decisive break with the past if they are to put their faith in Labour again.

Not exact matches

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, a wealthy New Yorker, broke with the Republican «establishment» which he criticized for being in the pocket of big business, and formed the «Bull Moose» Party (which split the vote and paved the way for an otherwise unelectable Woodrow Wilson).

«It is self - evident today and broadly accepted that the NPP is unelectable party for a very long time.

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

Well that's pretty much what all the main political parties are doing in the run - up to the general election — thanks to the rise of unelectable and unaccountable think - tanks.

This is not a foolproof measure: personal popularity rating can mislead us into thinking a party is unelectable if its leader is unpopular.

The Dems» fractious online army attempted to pull the party to the unelectable margins of political debate.

Their party was unelectable when they were led by William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.

He is unfit to lead his party and he is unelectable by an electorate that has just voted for Brexit.

Bill Clinton wins saying to the left of the party, «You are unelectable.»

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

I remember how in the 1990s how the tabloids demonized the Conservative party nearly every day rendering it unelectable.

He was often dismissed by former congressman Rick Lazio, the party's designee, as an unelectable gadfly, putting forth no substantive solutions atop his bombastic rants.

The New Labour architect told the magazine: «We are in a situation now where he is unelectable in the country but unassailable in the Party».

The Labour Left for the past two years have had to endure ridicules, being told we represented the «loony left», and that Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable, or that he would destroy the Labour party.

I'd be utterly ashamed of simply asserting that a party that was IN POWER just six years ago is now unelectable, and if I actually believed it (as you say you do) I'd be even more embarrassed of supporting them.

Some argue that he was willing to help Brown in 2008, even though he feared he was unelectable, because he felt guilty for backing Tony Blair for the party leadership in 1994 when Brown was a candidate for the position.

The person dismissed as «unelectable» and «not prime ministerial material» somehow finds himself in charge of the party out in front, according to YouGov polling.

There are those who say they would vote for Jeremy but think that he would be unelectable, forgetting of course that people have left the party and others did not vote because New Labour are no longer relevant.

new labour have bought the labour party to the brink of extinction in only twenty shorty years and made it practically unelectable.