Sentences with phrase «alienating labour voters»

Vitally though, he shouldn't entirely alienate Labour voters because they place him exactly on 0.

Gordon Brown alienates Labour voters, while David Cameron's leadership continues to boost the Conservatives» appeal.

Not exact matches

These prompted him in 2008 to write to Gordon Brown, then Prime Minister and Labour Leader, warning that Labour must be wary of losing touch with its roots and alienating the country's six million Catholic voters.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

Labour has always been a broad church, but a move towards the liberal attitudes of its metropolitan voters has in turn alienated a working class with genuine social concerns.

For the first time in a generation, Labour is no longer the default choice for low - income voters, alienated from the largely socially conservative workers who once formed the core of its support.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

For one thing, New Labour's triangulation strategy, which saw it adopting distinctly right - wing policies, was admired by the City of London, industry and most of the Westminster media but actually served to alienate many voters.

Labour's qualified support of immigration also had the effect of alienating both progressive voters and undecided voters, who preferred the clear certainty of UKIP's message.

However, Labour is more cohesive than Conservatives on this matter, and as such was probably less likely to alienate voters.

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

He identified the issues that hurt Labour, analysed variations in the results and answered their questions about which groups of voters they had most alienated.

Labour leaders will try to stifle dissent at the conference by arguing that the party will alienate voters if it indulges in «navel - gazing» during the global financial crisis.

For its part, Labour desperately requires a strategy that stiffens its Remain resolve without alienating voters in the passionately pro-Leave towns of provincial England.

Labour is a party that has alienated a large body of working class voters, and though it wants in principle to build up its working class membership and its proportion of working class candidates, it is much less willing to offer policies bold enough to win working class voters back.

And yet they've come out and done it, alienating millions of people who might be Labour voters.

Some Cabinet ministers fear that Mr Brown is locked into pursuing a «core vote» strategy appealing to Labour's traditional voters in the north and the Midlands, and risks alienating southern middle - class voters who may be more supportive of cuts in public spending.

New Labour never played well in Wales — it alienated voters and members alike.

All Jeremy's «right on» liberal sentimentality is doing is reinforcing the neoliberal status quo which empowers Capital against labour, and is alienating millions of actual, ex, and potential Labour voters — looking for a radical Left agenda (or of course, failing that — a radical Right populist one via a more Left - faking UKIP Mk 2) that actually tries to stand up to the power of the neoliberal mlabour, and is alienating millions of actual, ex, and potential Labour voters — looking for a radical Left agenda (or of course, failing that — a radical Right populist one via a more Left - faking UKIP Mk 2) that actually tries to stand up to the power of the neoliberal mLabour voters — looking for a radical Left agenda (or of course, failing that — a radical Right populist one via a more Left - faking UKIP Mk 2) that actually tries to stand up to the power of the neoliberal market.

You can say that is a product of changes around the Lib Dems — that it reflected the return of alienated left - wing voters who cared about Iraq and civil liberties to Labour under Ed Miliband.

Hob - nobbing with the rich and famous was one of the factors that alienated so many of Labour's core voters from New Labour.

This poses a «Brexit dilemma», the study says, pointing out that Labour needs to somehow appeal more to leave voters without alienating existing supporters who opposed Brexit.

I personally think the AV referendum is lost because Nick Clegg (and I mean Nick Clegg personally) has alienated masses of Labour voters who might otherwise have supported it.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

All the evidence is that the so - called Moderates have not the remotest intention of addressing inequality or promoting democratic socialist policies, and that is why they will continue to alienate traditional Labour voters.

In Ebbw Vales monetary threats just served to alienate the normal Labour voters.

The then Shadow Attorney General was accused of alienating Labour from the British public and key target voters, which left the former party leader «angry».

Labour regarded Lords reform as abstruse, nerdy stuff, alienating voters.

It is further indication that the PM is trying to seize core Labour voters alienated by Jeremy Corbyn.

I, on the other hand, think it was a first step in telling alienated voters that at last Labour recognised that they too had concerns to be addressed.

Moreover, it risks giving a hostage to fortune, with UKIP being the only party willing to criticise the prevailing political consensus, and which has rapidly absorbed working and middle class voters alienated by the Labour and Conservative parties.