Sentences with phrase «about a minority conservative»

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Should Stephen Harper's Conservatives remain in power until that time, they will become the country's longest - lasting minority government, surpassing by about a month that of Mackenzie King's 1921 - 1925 administration.

Why is it just fine with you that people of your ilk can debase and debauch my religion but if I speak out about being your feeling the «right» to your racist biggoted views all over because I am the only «minority» being a white Male Christian conservative who can be «hated»?

Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

Again, I don't think conservatives will argue that any and every burden must be paid by a minority community if it has any broader benefit; I think that they disagree with you about the relative magnitudes.

But at this point in the campaign, that only fuels arguments from the Conservatives about the risks involved in a minority Labour government supported by the SNP.

The play follows the activities of both Labour and Conservative whips» offices, as they battle for the favour of the «odds and sods» — angry Scots raging about devolution, some drunken Irish, and Liberals in beige checked flares — in order to hold influence in the House governed by a precarious and potty - mouthed Labour minority.

In fact, it was Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos» reservations about state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's effort to establish his own third party line that tanked the idea (much to the pleasure of state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long).

Mercer was forced to resign as Shadow Minister for Homeland Security in March 2007 by David Cameron after talking about «idle and useless» ethnic minority soldiers who used racism as a «cover», [23][24] although initially the Conservative Party stated the comments were a «private matter».

There was some discussion after the election of the possibility of creating a Conservative minority government and, because the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown had the first opportunity to form a government, there were also talks about creating some sort of alliance between the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties.

As senate minority leader since 2007, John was a highly qualified state - government - experienced social moderate and fiscal conservative who was intimately knowledgeable about the inner workings of our state legislature and eminently qualified to get things done.

In Tory ranks, there are mutterings — off - the - record for the moment, and perhaps more about tactical positioning than serious proposals — about explicitly challenging the Lib Dems to support the boundary changes, and going for divorce and minority Conservative government if they do not.

My estimate is that the next parliamentary Conservative Party will include about one hundred women, ethnic minorities and gay people.

in the more than a year since he began his White House bid, Trump has not held a single event aimed at black voters in their communities, and has also turned down repeated invitations to address gatherings of black leaders, ignored African - American conservatives in states he needs to win and made numerous inflammatory comments about minorities.

It's not stratospheric progress but it is sustainable progress because the women and minorities who will form about 20 % of the next parliamentary Conservative Party will all be there on merit.

Runnymede points about that the Conservatives made little progress among minority communities at the last election despite a record number of ethnic minority candidates in winnable seats and despite Conservatives like Sayeeda Warsi playing a prominent role in the Tory campaign.

Everything Conservative government Cabinet ministers and representatives said about their Bill C - 16 in the House of Commons and Senate made it clear that the legal effect of the Bill (which became law in May 2007) is to require the government (whether minority or majority) to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons before the Prime Minister can advise the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call an election.

Even under the most conservative immigration assumptions, minorities will account for about 70 percent of the 11.8 million net new households in 2010 — 20, the report estimated.