Sentences with phrase «against referendums on»

And while some (like Margaret Thatcher as PM) have been strongly against referendums on European questions, think it would be a good idea to have another in or out referendum at some point in future.

Later in the same programme, Jack Straw popped up to insist that he had nothing against a referendum on electoral reform.

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The Spanish team joined a country - wide strike on Tuesday to protest against «the serious events which took place during the day of the Catalan referendum on independence.»

Most of the region voiced support for the July 16 referendum convened by the opposition against the assembly, and the EU and the US have suggested they could level sanctions on the Maduro government should the July 30 vote go ahead.

The country voted against joining the euro zone in a referendum in 2000 and last December opted to retain its exemption from EU rules on issues like asylum and border control.

He also said he's counting on an underwhelming recreational rollout to galvanize pro-marijuana consumers against further local bans, noting that many local restrictions were implemented at sparsely attended hearings or through low - turnout, off - cycle referendums.

Apart from railing against corruption, austerity, and institutional inertia (as Ciudadanos does), Podemos backs a referendum on independence in Catalonia.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on a temporary restraining order against an Oklahoma referendum that would ban the use of Islamic religious law in state courts.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

«Camelot voters voted against the referendums, so I'm not in favor of pursuing the Camelot Park grant,» said Robert Nesvacil, the only dissenting vote on the renovations.

In March last year in a non-binding referendum, residents voted against a $ 15 million proposal to build an outdoor aquatic center and recreation center on the site.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

His ire is targeted against the Tories for not giving a referendum on the Lisbon treaty - a claim which prompts instant consternation from Gerald Howarth.

And what of the forthcoming «in - out» referendum on European Union membership, which may result in the UK leaving the EU against Scotland's wishes?

Then, following the referendum, Blunkett watched on from his seat in the House of Lords as a spectacular rebellion against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn stuttered and then, seemingly, stalled.

But, the EU referendum is poised to raise — clearly, brutally, and emotively — the salience of an issue on which they are pitted against each other.

«The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, which represents workers in New York and New Jersey, on Monday will begin running a television and digital ad campaign against the referendum.

Having electrified Brexit backers with his decision to campaign with them and against the government ahead of the EU referendum, Boris Johnson instantly suffered a full - on prime - ministerial assault.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, the main anti- group has raised $ 635,300 to spend on the referendum campaign.

As was noted, the Supreme Council of Crimea made a decision against the Ukrainian Constitution about a referendum on 3/16/2014 to join Russia.

I think the best bet for Labour here is for Ed Miliband to do what Harold Wilson did in the 1975 Common Market Referendum - allow Labour MPs, party members and shadow cabinet ministers to campaign for or against, or not at all, depending on their personal preferences.

In the 1975 referendum on EEC membership, Harold Wilson recognised that there were legitimate arguments for and against among Labour Party members, allowing the party to divide.

Of the 26 Labour MPs who rebelled against Lords reform, six of them defied the party whip on the EU referendum motion.

David Cameron's impending promise of a referendum on Europe is pitting Conservative claims of advancing Britain's «national interest» against Labour's warnings on the economy, today's prime minister's questions revealed.

Before I saw him, Christie was meeting with Phil Murphy, the next governor and a former Goldman Sachs executive who cast much of his campaign on a referendum against Christie.

Evan Davis, a former counsel to Gov. Mario Cuomo who had been pursuing legal action against the state Board of Elections over placement of a referendum for a constitutional convention, has withdrawn his suit following the boards agreement to take steps to highlight the issue on the fall ballot.

The governor's office on Monday confirmed he would be voting against the convention referendum.

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP, probably believes what he was briefed when he writes in the Sussex Express that «the clincher» against a Lib - Lab deal was «no abandonment of ID cards or the third runway at Heathrow and they were not prepared to agree to the Lib Dem pledge of lower taxes for poorer people and more crucially, no more than a referendum on AV».

«I abstained on article 50 because I felt it was wrong in principle to vote against, given that we had all voted to hold the referendum in the first place.

In Montana, Libertarian Mike Fellows is spending the day at the capitol on April 17, lobbying against SB 408, the bill that would put a referendum on a top - two open primary on the November 2014 ballot.

On average, turnout levels were almost four percent higher in the constituencies that supported the referendum proposal (64.37 %) than it was in the constituencies that voted against this (60.48 %).

Following the referendum on EU membership more than two dozen members of the Shadow Cabinet resigned in late June 2016, [114] and a no - confidence vote was supported by 172 MPs against 40 supporting Corbyn.

An offensive against Mr Corbyn since the EU referendum has seen more than 50 shadow ministers quit, a decisive vote of no confidence in the leader and a string of senior figures call on him to step down.

Ed Miliband is under increasing pressure to back an in / out referendum on Britain's EU membership, after a survey showed more Labour supporters are in favour of a vote on Europe than against it.

In York's «Evening Press» newspaper of 12 April 2005, Maroney claimed it was «for selling loony merchandise against Electoral Commission rules»: to be precise the OMRLP's Financial Scheme as registered with the Electoral Commission, which meant any Branch of the OMRLP taking money on the party's behalf would be breaching the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 Part 2.

«This is going to be a referendum on me and my record, and as much as Democrats are going to try to run against Donald Trump in Westchester, they have to run against me and what we've done here,» Astorino said in a radio interview Tuesday.

Stewart Jackson, who resigned as a ministerial aide to the Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson last October after rebelling against the government on whether to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, said: «An increasing number of people are very frustrated at the compromises that are necessary with coalition.»

Former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden entered the race against Sen. Harry Reid (D) last week to much fanfare from national operatives who saw her as the strongest candidate in what almost certainly would be a referendum on the Senate Majority Leader.

As protests mounted, and subsequent campaigns were run as a referendum on Proposition 187 (the sitting governor was replaced by Gray Davis, a Democrat, who ran a campaign explicitly against Proposition 187), the Republican brand in the state suffered as well.

Had he walked away from the table against an inadequate deal on offer, he'd have a close - to - united party behind him and would be looking at a comfortable referendum win.

The justice secretary, who has been arguing against eurosceptics for the duration of his 42 - year parliamentary career, hit out at those calling for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU in the wake of the eurocrisis.

If we are to have a referendum on Biafra, it will fail; even if it will win, it will only be in the South - East zone, which has only five states against 31 other states.»

However, Glyn Davies, a Eurosceptic, told Vaughan Roderick on Sunday Supplement on BBC Radio Wales he would vote against any amendment expressing regret that there was no EU referendum Bill in last week's the Queen's Speech.

The BBC has revealed senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin wrote to Mr Carney warning him against making any «further public comment» about the EU referendum after the Governor predicted a recession if the UK votes to leave on June 23.

«John Bercow becomes fifth Tory MP to oppose referendum on EU Treaty Main Overwhelming majority use constituency ballots to vote for referendum and against Lisbon Treaty»

Were the party to elect Lamb, it would signal a change of direction on Europe — he did not vote against the triggering of article 50 and has said the party's job should be to fight for membership of the single market rather than a rerun of the referendum.

Matt Wootton at LeftFootForward is more concerned at the failure of the Left to unite against FPTP: «The referendum on the Alternative Vote was a once - in - a-lifetime chance to change politics for the better, and to mainstream red, green and liberal politics, and sideline Conservative.

Three Tory MPs voted against giving us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.