Sentences with phrase «broken electoral promises»

Labour delegates learned how to blame others for breaking your electoral promises.

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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.

Alan Johnson is back in the headlines, given his past enthusiasm for proportional representation — allowing electoral reform, whilst not breaking Clegg's promise by keeping Brown at the helm could be an attractive prospect for both parties, although the ability of the Labour party to depose Brown has been less - than - evident this past year.

Related links: Louise Bagshawe on the electoral implications of Gordon Brown's broken promise and the Tory poster campaign on Brown's surrender.

Buhari's record of failed electoral promises such as one to break up the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, whose indiscretions have saddled us with yet another round of petrol scarcity, beggars belief.

But as electoral reform, lower small business taxes, stock option loopholes, modest deficits and on and on demonstrate, election promises are made to be broken.

And then they broke their promise to run only modest deficits, they broke a few tax promises and abandoned a clear pledge on electoral reform.