Sentences with phrase «always vote labour»

There are various client groups who will always vote Labour and they pander to them to keep their votes.

Moreover, it remains the case that affiliated unions would prefer Labour to be in power than the Conservatives or a Conservative - led coalition (even if their members may not always vote Labour).

The fact that these seats «always vote Labour» should be irrelevant.

Blair said: «I will vote Labour, I would always vote Labour, and there are many excellent Labour candidates throughout the country.

For the Conservatives 19 % of people would always vote Tory, 42 % would never vote Tory; for Labour 24 % say they would always vote Labour, 30 % would never vote for them; for the Lib Dems just 5 % would always vote for them, 36 % would never vote for them.

Gillian Lazarus, a former Labour supporter in the borough, told the Observer: «I've always voted Labour and have been a member off and on.

We always voted Labour.

They may also gain a substantial amount of brand loyalty — there are presumably many voters out there who have always voted Labour and will back the Labour party regardless of whether it is currently under the control of the right or the left of the party.

I live in Scotland and have always voted labour until the last election when I voted for a socialist party the SNP, not for independence but for the many policies I would like to see implemented.

Nearly eight out of ten Loyalists said they had always voted Labour at general elections.

«I've got white working - class constituents who've always voted Labour, but they won't be voting for Miliband but for Ukip, because they feel he couldn't care less about them,» a backbencher said.

Labour appear to have a core vote of 30 %; «I'm a Labour man me, I've always voted Labour and always will.

He also stated, «I have always voted Labour (except when I foolishly voted Liberal on a couple of occasions).»

Not exact matches

«Clearly I would have preferred to have got more votes than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for Labour - it's a seat that we've never won,» he said.

Narrow Labour tribalism will always hold sway — just look at last night's vote on Heathrow for an example («I couldn't possibly vote for the motion — David Cameron tabled it!

I always thought the Tories «Vote Labour, Get Salmond «schtick was as weak as it was pitiful.

The solid Labour vote here in County Durham, while Tyneside and Teesside were much harder nuts to crack, has always had several parallels around the country.

This is not because Liverpool Walton is peppered with enclaves of bankers and stockbrokers; it's because a substantial section of the working class has always voted for parties other than Labour and now that vote is going to Ukip.

«It was always going to be a difficult one, and I think for Labour, I mean they were getting an average vote of about 25 % during the last term... so realistically there was only one way they could go and that was up.

If Liz Kendall convinces me likewise, then I would hold my nose and vote for her... like many Labour people i will always prefer a Labour government, even a centrist or right wing one, to a Tory one... having lived through 18 years of nonstop Tory rule in the 80s and 90s, I don't want them to have another 15 to 20 years in unbroken power.

While there will always be some underlying churn, the obvious implication of the changes since the start of October is that the Labour vote has been significantly squeezed, and is breaking heavily in UKIP's favour.

If a man who had always been a staunch Tory could be trusted to become a Labour supporter overnight, then why can't the few Tories and the rest of the voters rejected by Harman be given the benefit of the doubt to vote for the leader?

Of «often» Labour voters, 51 % said they were less likely to vote Labour now, of their hardcode «always» Labour voters, 26 % were less likely to vote Labour.

Harris found 13 % of people who said they had always voted for the Labour party.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

However, the results in Heywood and Middleton where Ukip lost by just 617 votes was potentially a bigger shock to Labour, as the party has always argued Ukip is a greater threat to the Tories.

On the ground, we've always thought that it's easier to take Labour votes than Tory - gone - LibDem ones - and that's been true - at last we have a leader who wants to do something about that!

The Lib Dems have always benefited from tactical voting - although their supporters stopped supporting Labour against us by and large in 2005.

Labour MP Angela Raynor, who backed Mr Corbyn in the vote, said: «The position of Jeremy has always been the same and that is that he commands the support of the wider membership and that is one of the reasons I felt it so important to back Jeremy's leadership.»

«The grassroot level of the Labour party has always turned out and voted, but it's getting the general populace to go out and do it...»

The Labour northern / working - class vote gives them a solid block of seats they can always rely on; even in 1983, when they polled just 27 % of the vote, they secured 209 seats.

The former Labour leader stressed that he would vote Labour himself and had always done so.

I have always voted with the Labour whip.

At an assembly election Labour have always lost votes to Plaid and 40 % would be a good score.

Despite all the talk of a progressive majority the two pro-AV operations — one focusing on the Labour vote and the other on Lib Dems - always remained distinct.

If a minority Labour government was relying on Tory votes to get things through that the Nats didn't like, there is always a danger that the Tories could resort to the sort of tactics Labour themselves often used in such situations (such as constitutional reform).

While Labour voters have always voted for the party because they believe Labour will look after them better than the Tories, it's self - interest, they have few if any socialist convictions, as we saw with the recent drift to UKIP.

True more people vote labour than Tory because they always have done, but core vote, can mean core voters who abstain, no one cares really about how good previous Labour gov» t's werelabour than Tory because they always have done, but core vote, can mean core voters who abstain, no one cares really about how good previous Labour gov» t's wereLabour gov» t's were, but.

While a now largely disappeared industrial middle class used to vote against Labour, and the Tories could count on winning parliamentary seats on Tyneside and in Sunderland until the Thatcher years, Teesside was always different.

There will always be a hard core of people who will vote for Labour and for that matter in a bad years such as 1997 or 2001 for the Conservatives and a lesser core for the Lib Dems.

In a straight fight between an embarassingly over-confident SNP and Labour, third party votes were always going to be squeezed.

The no confidence vote has always been more likely, especially given Jeremy Corbyn's stated position that Labour would welcome an early election.

Trade unions trying to fix selections is not new.All factions in the labour party try to fix selections for their favoured sons and daughters.Those who are less skilled in organising their vote always cry foul.This is nothing new and will always take place.

I am never likely to vote Labour but you always come across as resonable, polite and decent on here and we could do with some more of that in Parliament so I do hope you get selected.

Swadlincote, with its mining and potteries heritage has always been the core of the Labour support here, although previous boundary incarnations also included wards from Derby itself that provided Labour votes.

Labour's core demographics are far, far less likely to show up and with a small Labour party membership with a virtually non-existent get out the vote strategy the Tories would nearly always win competitive elections by default.

I'd personally feel extremely unhappy if he didn't, in the same way that I always felt uncomfortable in the Blair years, huge majorities but only 2/5 of the electorate had actually voted Labour, less than in 1983 the nadir of Labour's misfortunes..

Two said they would vote for Labour reluctantly («because I always have done»), and only one said they would do so with enthusiasm.

My parents and my grand parents always voted for Labour.