Sentences with phrase «better than coalition»

55 % says that «single party government is normally better than coalition, as it provides a strong government that can get things done without having to do deals with other parties».

Now I think I am perfectly entitled to spend 50 days arguing why that's good, why a Conservative majority government would be better than coalition, and I think actually if we are talking about people getting a fair choice, my argument is that if you elect a majority government you have got a manifesto, you can hold us to our promises.

Yet Labour have no constructive suggestions to make about how they would have gone about this better than the coalition, apart (occasionally, and on an extremely inconsistent / garbled basis) from ideas nicked from people like UKUncut, the Greens, non-Orange Lib Dems etc..

Not exact matches

Five Star is much better placed to capture the centrist votes than anyone else in Italian politics right now, and much more likely to be able to co-opt the Renzi - hating left into a coalition.

Of course, federal spending would be even better, and three cheers for MMT, but QC is not without options, even if the Parti Quà © bà © cois and Coalition Avenir Quà © bec are just as or even more hawkish on deficits than the PLQ.

As a result, they stepped down from the Gospel Coalition, the movement's flagship organization, with best wishes for their future ministry but with strong hints that behind the scenes the departure had been less than amicable.

In the US the two major «parties» are more like coalitions than traditional parliamentary system parties, but the Democratic coalition tends to strongly support the mixed economy system, and parts of the Republican coalition do as well.

On that generous assumption, the Coalition government achieved a reduction in net administration costs of 27 per cent in real terms between 2011 - 12 and 2014 - 15, which is much better than we observed over comparable periods in the three decades covered by our earlier analysis.

In particular, if David Cameron presides over a minority government or coalition, his own side would be expected to do better than that.

If this discredited coalition had a growth strategy, it's obvious the figures would be better than they are.

In his book 5 Days in May, Andrew Adonis goes so far as to argue that the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the Conservatives rather than Labour not because of the parliamentary arithmetic was considerably better but instead because Nick Clegg and David Laws especially were ideologically closer and personally warmer to the Tories than to Labour.

Furthermore, two - thirds of voters believe the coalition government is better for the UKeconomy than a Labour one would be.

On balance, Clegg will be better for the Tories if they don't think there's much chance of winning a majority anyway and would rather remain in Coalition post-2015 than occupy the opposition benches.»

Dealing and coalition formation would be the norm, and no party seemed better placed to profit from that circumstance than the Liberal Democrats.

I would suggest that key areas would be the economy and the NHS — which would need to be key U-turns for a possible Liberal Democrat coalition partners, though ones that might reflect the decisions made by their conferences better than their performance in government has done.

«I feel certain that the long - term best interests of your party are better served by acknowledging that and doing something about it, rather than acting out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the coalition.

«If they are looking for someone who is fair, who is firm, someone who is a coalition builder, who is a peacemaker, someone who can hit the ground running on the budget process, they can pick no one better than Carl Heastie,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who served in the Assembly and has known Heastie for nearly two decades.

Interestingly, Conservative voters are more likely to think the coalition has been good for the Liberal Democrats than for their own party.

Whilst the Coalition Government is working better than I think anyone expected, the truth is that if we want a Conservative Government which has a working majority we need to win another 35 - 40 seats — but from where?

Rather than any formal pact between the Tories and the Lib Dems, AV may yet offer the coalition its best chance of sticking together.

With the parties unable to form a coalition, voters must return to the polls on June 17th, when the far - left are expected to do even better than last time.

Clegg was confident, pleasing the crowd, and giving us a more specific message about the Lib Dems in coalition — the behind - the - scenes bloopers we didn't see, rather than the standard boring trope of rattling off what they have achieved (but don't worry, taking «3 million people on low pay out of income tax» certainly got a mention — and huge cheer as well.)

«Giuliani and Bloomberg were elected in part by that old coalition losing its strength and losing its cohesiveness and de Blasio was able to stitch that together better than it had been for over 20 years and he also was able to bring in new constituencies, people of color, immigrants,» said Ken Sherrill, a professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College.

According to Share Better, an anti-Airbnb coalition, 60 percent of the apartments the site listed in the city — more than 15,000 — are illegal.

Looking ahead was better than looking back on a week of outrage from Democrats like Manhattan Sen. Liz Krueger, one of many who described the coalition as «another Albany backroom deal.»

34 % would have preferred Labour had won, and 38 % think the Coalition has done better than Labour alone would have.

Putting these together we asked whether people thought that, with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been better if Labour had won, and asked if they think the Coalition has done a better job than Labour would have.

These and other issues will be critical yardsticks by which the Liberal Democrats can show the public how a coalition government is far better than an unfettered Conservative administration would have been.

Fortty per cent agreed that the coalition had probably worked out better than just the Tories trying to go it alone, compared to 34 % disagreeing - a five - point net swing towards the government.

«Having introduced policies which will create a lost generation of young people, it is staggering that the secretary of state can claim that the Coalition has «guaranteed the life of the next generation will be better than our own.»

The coalition will last regardless of the result, contrary to popular belief, but Clegg can make it an awful lot easier for his party if he can secure anything better than a horrific result.

The outlook is not good for the party, battered and bruised by a period in coalition that may have done more harm than good to long - term electoral fortunes.

«A coalition would be much better than a looser alliance», one senior minister said.

Majority Conservatism is viewed by Party members as a better course to pursue as we prepare for the next Parliament than Coalition Conservatism (with its strong points, such as the deficit reduction programme and the Gove / Duncan - Smith reforms, as well as its weak ones).

The new co-leader of the Senate, Senator Jeff Klein, says he knows the new coalition of five Democrats and 30 Republicans will have to prove itself in the coming months and deliver on key pieces of legislation, but he says they stand a better chance of success than if just the Democrats alone were in charge of the Senate.

«That is why our great party has now, more than ever before, become a center of the new patriotic and broad - based engagements by well - meaning Nigerians and coalitions across board, including past leaders, in rekindling our democratic process that places priority on returning power to the people.

In short, nothing has really changed: Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg look slightly less popular than a month ago, and the Coalition partners thought to be working together a little better — but even these changes are just as likely to be the result of sampling fluctuation.

Speaking of Labour, why have you said that a Tory - Lib Dem coalition is a «better configuration'than a Lib - Lab partnership?

«Generally things are going better than they did during September primary,» said Pamela Smith, president of VerifiedVoting.org, which was part of an Election Protection coalition monitoring Tuesday's election nationwide.

And was their decision connected in some way with their source's better known ex-husband, who no - one would be keener to send to the wolves than their coalition partners?

«That is why our great party has now, more than ever before, become a centre of the new patriotic and broad - based engagements by well - meaning Nigerians and coalitions across the board, including past leaders, in rekindling our democratic process that places priority on returning power to the people.

«This is a far better approach than the current system,» said Shelly Nortz, of the Coalition for the Homeless, of Hevesi's plan.

Figures from the ONS confirmed that families are better off than when the Coalition came into power and the economy is growing faster than expected.

Only 22 % agree that «Coalition government is normally better than single party government, as it is more inclusive and makes parties compromise and work together».

The Coalition is what there is and does far more good than ill.

He's obliged to deny that the Conservatives could do better out of the Coalition than the Liberal Democrats, and thus says that they'll both do splendidly, thank you very much.

Mr Clegg's core belief is that coalition government works as well if not better in modern societies than single - party rule.

The militants, for example, did not pull ahead as quickly with improvised explosive device (IED) attacks, which «suggests that the coalition military counteradapts to IEDs better than to other threats,» Johnson and his colleagues noted in their paper.

NEW YORK, United States — More than 100 retailers including Wal - Mart and Target as well as key trade associations are launching a new coalition aimed at fighting a Republican proposal on how imports get taxed, which they believe would harm their businesses.

More precisely, the National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) claimed that state - run defined benefit plans offered better benefits than defined contribution plans.