Sentences with phrase «against the coalition»

For the main vote 21 Lib Dem MPs voted against the coalition government.
Things look less bleak where Conservatives are defending territory against their coalition partners.
The parliamentary party was much improved since the 2010 election, and that a strong stand against the coalition's cuts could win the next election.
They had a seven per cent swing against the Coalition.
I was vocal against this coalition to begin with I am not convinced by the budget that I was wrong in my initial assessment.
The game is set to take place 15 years before the original Gears of War, with Baird and the rest of Killo Squad standing trial for transgression against the Coalition of Governments.
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News that party members who voted against the coalition government's plans to set up free schools have misunderstood what the policy is about.
Video: With protesters campaigning against the coalition government's cuts, John Harris tests the mood at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool
The former Lib Dem leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, has said he plans to rebel against the coalition over any rise in university tuition fees.
They still remain part of the insurgency, however, continuing attacks against coalition troops and government forces at least as late as 2013.
Ultimately, this policy goes against the coalition agreement, against Conservative pre-election policy and is fundamentally an illiberal, intrusive scheme that will do little to improve national security and do everything to turn us into a nation of suspects.
When I was there we weren't being shot at too much because despite what we were being told further up the chain we weren't so stupid as to not go into every village and say «we're not going to touch your poppy» and arguably the upturn in violence against coalition forces came in 2009 and in 2010 when the American marine brigade started saying «oh hang on, weren't we supposed to eradicating poppies?
Ed Miliband suffered outbreaks of heckling today as he addressed tens of thousands of people marching against the coalition's spending cuts.
Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster said his party could vote with Labour against coalition colleagues to try and block the News Corp takeover of BSkyB.
NASUWT: Teachers and construction workers united against the coalition government's cuts in school building
Then, as now, a few Liberal backbenchers spoke out against coalition policies.
This move is in protest against the coalition's plans to cut the number of Welsh MPs by around a quarter.
The home secretary's plans for a «snoopers» charter» goes against the coalition agreement and Tory pre-election policy, argues the director of Big Brother Watch
The state's highest court this month ruled against a coalition of poor rural districts, which claimed that significant differences between rich and poor jurisdictions violated the right to an education under the state constitution.
The GMB resolution continued: «Congress believes that such factional campaigns to undermine Labour candidates, and to soften opposition to Tory policies, endanger the unity of the party and the movement in our fight against the coalition government.»
Mandelson's memo to Labour Party members on 18 April, in which he said he was «not against coalition government in principle», was flagged up by The Independent as «the first time a senior Labour figure has spoken about a Lib - Lab coalition» in this election.
He is hardly going to join a picket line against Coalition cuts.
Interestingly, Tebbit called for Cameron to burst the «Clegg bubble» during the election campaign and warned against the coalition deal.
The costliest battle was in District 4, where the teachers union decided to stand against the coalition by supporting one - term incumbent Steve Zimmer against Kate Anderson.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «Our legal challenge against the coalition government is hugely significant for workers in both the public and private sectors.
Yet it will also vote against the coalition on the programme motion, setting up the prospect of a parliamentary bullfight that most analysts believe will make the coalition's life hell.
Pro-business campaigners are ratcheting up pressure against the coalition as the unveiling of banking reforms nears.
The VAT hike was particularly poorly timed for this campaign and became a keystone of Labour rhetoric against the coalition's «broken promises».
It has launched an online petition attempting to galvanise public opinion against the coalition's approach.
The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»
If so, will you ensure as leader that the Labour opposition campaigns hard against the Coalition's plan for a British Bill of Rights, replacing the HRA, in which rights will be «balanced by responsibilities», basically a Leninist concept?
It's happening everywhere: on the right against open borders and the refugee wave, on the left against the coalition bombing campaign in Syria, in the establishment to push for more online surveillance, in the libertarian right to push for fewer gun controls, among atheists who see religion as the cause of all evil.
But Dr Cable, a seasoned campaigner, was able to sense the momentum was shifting against the coalition - and his own party leader.
So, if any leaks are made over the next few weeks, we'll know it has nothing to do with trying to preserve departmental budgets, and everything to do with personal rebellion against the coalition's leaders.
While Lib Dem knives are out against their coalition partners in this year's council elections scrap, Ed Miliband has his sights set on a bigger prize: No 10.
March for the Alternative - London Saturday 26 March The flagship demonstration against coalition government cuts is the March for the Alternative - organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Saturday 26 March.
One Liberal Democrat from East Anglia, the Cambridge MP Julian Huppert, also voted against the coalition motion.
Two years ago, Gallo was pushed out after a single term in a divisive Democratic primary against a coalition of progressive Democrats supported by Berky and led by current mayor Steve Noble.
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has warned Nigerians against coalition formed by politicians in a bid to rescue Nigeria.
Balls» Budget response showed an improved ability on the Labour benches to deploy damaging framing devices against the coalition, with the shadow chancellor branding yesterday's housing policy a «spare home subsidy».
-LSB-...] the timing, coming so soon after heavy concessions appear to have been made over tuition fees and many aspects of the CSR, but at the public show of dissent against a Coalition -LSB-...]
Adam [Afriyie], like a lot of Conservative MPs, was quite firmly against the coalition, felt it was not in the national interest or in the interest of the party.
It finds efforts to legislate for humanist marriage have been delayed, partly because of the huge backlash against the coalition government's bid to legalise same - sex marriage.
Not only that, but if the Lib Dems» argument boils down to it not being reasonable for Coalition MPs to work against Coalition Agreement policies, they may have to watch out for some uncomfortable moments in the coming months, should Tory MPs wish to push the British Bill of Rights, recall of MPs, and so on.
Following a rebellion by party activists against the Coalition's flagship education policy, the conference voted to boycott the new schools because they increased «social divisiveness and inequity».
Some of the Labour negotiating team denied that the leadership would have been unable to deliver the parliamentary party to the deal, saying the head of steam against coalition in Labour ranks could have been contained.
Airbnb is fighting back against a coalition that claims the site gobbles up cheap apartments, calling the group a front for the hospitality industry because it hasn't tried to stop the spate of hotel conversions also exacerbating the housing crisis.
Ed Balls, who had advised Brown that Labour should reprise its «Vatman» campaign from the 1992 election (a caped Norman Lamont was depicted as «Vatman»), is now leading the charge against the coalition's VAT increase.
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