Sentences with phrase «as labour supporters»

«I only want people to register as Labour supporters if they are genuine Labour supporters and they want to stay for the longer course,» Mr Corbyn added.

If labour lose certain seats we've got because the White working class, self employed man, witha St George's flag outside ina council home votes UKIP are you going to say it doesn't matter as that sort of chav stereotype, is something that we as labour supporters shouldnt want anyway

He said: «I've said all along from the very beginning I only want people to register as Labour supporters if they are genuine Labour supporters and intend to stay for the long run.»

This is the reality check which both those on the left and the 200 or so Green Party members who have registered as Labour supporters to vote for Corbyn, need to face.

Others are identifying themselves as Labour supporters or free - market Lib Dems or working with think tanks trying to push conservative views in different directions to take the pain away.

As Labour supporters, we wish to ensure that our values of solidarity, tolerance and respect are reflected in how we do politics as well as the causes we seek to serve.

13:47 - Chris Bryant spreads the blame evenly, even citing privacy infringements by the Mirror, something he says shames him as a Labour supporter.

As a Labour supporter I would like to receive posts to add to my keeping abreast of developments within the labour and trade union movement

Conservative MP Tim Loughton was caught signing up as a Labour supporter, but claims he did it to expose the Labour vote «farce».

It will also cost # 25 instead of # 3 to sign up as a Labour supporter - and anyone wishing to sign up only has two days to do so.

As a Labour supporter I have a lot of respect for Ms Soubry.

Sadiq Khan or David Lammy or even Oona King would be better candidates, but I think that she'll stand and all of Ken's lot and the unions will back her, give her the selection and she'll lose to Seb Coe unless there is an open primary for the Mayoral selection which I hope happens as a Labour supporter.

Not exact matches

The reaction: Union supporters were dismayed to learn the products on offer are not, as a rule, made by unionized labour.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

The Labour Party has been a strong supporter of breastfeeding as it ensures a healthy start for infants, and promotes women's health.

Only around three percent of women hire a doula to act as a professional labour supporter.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

Yet Reg Freeson, the Labour MP who was ousted and replaced as MP by Livingstone said he did not consider the ex-London Mayor to be «anti-semitic» and as London's Mayor Livingstone supported Jewish festivals and was never short of Jews amongst his supporters.

It comes as 180,541 people have applied to become registered Labour supporters to take part in the party's leadership election - netting the cash - strapped party a cool # 4.5 million.

As the Labour leadership contest hots up, supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith are furiously hitting the phones.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

The latest Ipsos Mori political monitor found that half of Labour supporters are now dissatisfied with the way that Corbyn is doing his job as Labour leader.

Certainly to me (a floating voter) it looks as if Labour have moved a long way to the right and to the authoritarian over the last 15 years or so, and if they want their old supporters to listen to them, they may have to migrate back a bit to get the conversation started.

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

Senior Labour frontbenchers today sought to weaponise Boris Johnson as they stepped up the party's attempts to persuade its traditional supporters to back the Remain campaign.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?

But the Labour leader's bold comments risked being drowned out in the subsequent media coverage as a handful of supporters booed and hissed the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigAs a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaigas supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is seen by a large swathe of her supporters - particularly those voters who have abandoned Labour - as a socialist standard - bearer.

He admitted that expecting Labour supporters to join the Lib Dems was «a big ask» but added: «As we stand on the edge of those two horrific realities: Brexit and a Tory stranglehold on Britain, the biggest risk is that you do not join us.

It has been described by party sources - and by the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for Remain.

Former adversaries Gordon Brown and John McDonnell today joined forces as Labour steps up it efforts to persuade its traditional supporters to reject leaving the EU.

And Mrs May is out to act for them, collecting disenchanted Labour and UKIP supporters as she goes.

I'm sorry for using such a morbid analogy, but as a longstanding Labour supporter I'm finding that hope is in short supply.

We should not be so naive as to think that every Labour and Lib Dem supporter shares a single set of values.

As fresh claims of abuse by Mr Corbyn's supporters emerged, one of Labour's biggest donors left the party.

Many seemed positively miserable about the influx of new Labour party members and supporters, reinforcing their image as a narrow Westminster elite concerned about their own careers above anything else.

A lot of progressive Labour members and supporters currently buy into this idea as well.

Clearly even supporters of the Yes Campaign within the Labour Party such as Jack Straw have now no appetite for further discussion on this subject.

18 % of current Conservative supporters said they would, 30 % of UKIP supporters said they'd consider voting for Ed Miliband's party and a sizeable 46 % of current Liberal Democrat supporters said they would consider voting Labour as well.

As a consequence, nearly half of pensioners don't think Labour will ever return to power in Scotland, including one in 10 of its own supporters.

For example, if convinced the battle locally was between Labour and the SNP, a half of Liberal Democrat (50 %) supporters and almost as many Conservatives (44 %) said they would back Labour instead.

I'm now back in a very snowy Washington — waiting to see if the Republican Party's core supporters are as «mad» as the Labour Party's Corbynistas — in both of the most common understandings of that word.

As Corbyn goes to battle with Owen Smith for the Labour crown, a whopping 180,541 people have applied to become registered supporters - netting the party a cool # 4.5 million.

Labour supporters often point to the social rights provided by the EU as evidence of the need to stay in.

Meanwhile, a number of Corbyn supporters on Twitter also insisted that Labour's low standing under the current leader is a result of what they call the «chicken coup» — a reference to the flurry of resignations that was triggered by Hilary Benn standing down as shadow foreign secretary on 26 June.