UKIP has performed well in recent West Midlands European elections — winning 3 of the 7 regional seats — but the party is unlikely to represent a significant force in Birmingham next month, as their current decline
as an electoral force in British politics continues.
This will open the door to more coups and more provocations from the PLP and the party apparatchicks that will eventually see the Labour Party imploding never to recover
as an electoral force.
Labour will come out of 2020 destroyed
as an electoral force.
Noting the strides made by the Manhattan county Democratic organization, Yee believes the Democratic Party as a whole needs to «get its act together» in terms of engaging voters and transparency if it wants to be successful
as an electoral force.
«When the BNP disappears
as an electoral force, people who are still dissatisfied do look to other parties which to put their vote,» she said.
Not exact matches
As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centur
As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming
force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in
electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known
as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - centur
as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.
With the emergence of the black churches, which are engaged in
electoral registration drives and are seeking to become a political
force as in America, the Coalition parties risk punishment in the marginal seats.
Now, the Catholic Church of the 1980s was nothing like
as potent a
force as it had been in the age of Cardinal Spellman, when it could count on the solid
electoral support of most of its faithful, and it already faced major revolts over issues of gender and sexuality.
In the meantime, the PD is also
forced to adjust to its new role
as a key pillar in the Italian government, whilst struggling to reconcile its own
electoral interests and responsibilities towards the country.
Should Labour begin to lose its stranglehold on Wales,
as it did so dramatically in Scotland in 2015, then the future for the party
as a UK
electoral force really will be looking bleak.
Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it
as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an
electoral force in its own right.
The statement said the
Electoral Commission (EC) used the
electoral laws
as an oppressive tool against them,
forcing them to spend six weeks in court to litigate the injustice.
While imploring the general public for their understanding and cooperation towards the enforcement of this order, the
Force noted that the order was informed by the need to forestall plans by criminal elements to undermine the
electoral process
as gathered through intelligence reports.
It argues that the destruction of lives and property can not be entirely ruled out at this stage
as the group may not only resort to confronting the security
forces but may also attempt disrupting the
electoral process.
In summary, if UKIP moved their economic policy to the left, not too far to the left
as I mentioned before, just away from the supply side tosh, they could become a major
electoral force and convert those 15 to 17 per cent poll numbers into actual votes on the ground.
And my thesis is that this is the key thing that holds them back
as a more potent
electoral force.
And the party has undermined its ability to act
as an independent
force through
electoral collaboration with the Democrats.
However, any
electoral strategy short of equidistance risks destroying the Liberal Democrats» broad appeal and threatens its status
as an independent political
force.
Given the concessions on
electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were
forced to make
as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.
The task in hand is to cross the
electoral finish line and,
as one senior adviser puts it, «crush Ed Miliband, destroy Labour
as a
force for government».
Jeremy Corbyn has defied the pundits and the pollsters to restore the Labour party
as a serious
electoral force and deliver a devastating blow to Theresa May's political authority.
The report authors argue charters have come to represent a
force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance
electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents
as part of the problem they are solving.»
The House of Assembly, in the exercise of its historic right to expel a member in appropriate circumstances, hereby expels from the Assembly the member last elected before the coming into
force of this Act for the
electoral district of Inverness South by reason of his conviction on four counts of using forged documents in respect of money received by him in his capacity
as a member, and the seat of that member is and is deemed to be vacant until an election is held in that
electoral district according to law.