Sentences with phrase «class heartland»

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

The Tories then made steady progress, expanding from their traditional middle - class heartlands of Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston and into wards that had long been red.

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Binelli is suspicious, too, of the Richard Florida — inspired calls to turn America's industrial heartland into a metropolis of «creative class» artists, tech entrepreneurs and tattooed baristas.

He told calmly of his upbringing in the Protestant heartland on the mean streets of working - class Belfast, and of joining the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) at 16.

The capital is often portrayed as a Corbynite heartland, with thousands of middle class lefty liberals queuing up to support the Labour leader while those in the provinces could not care less.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

At present Labour is losing support to the SNP in Scotland, to UKIP in its English and Welsh heartlands and, in the light of Corbyn's half - hearted support for Remain, may well see the support of disappointed middle - class pro-Europeans shift towards the Liberal Democrats (who have pledged to go into any future election committed to reversing the decision to leave the European Union).

If there is any chance of Labour reconnecting with their heartlands, they must start bringing the working class and low paid immigrants together to fight for a better future.

It could be a routine hold for Labour in a constituency they have dominated forever, proving that rumours of the party's demise have been greatly exaggerated; it could be the route to Westminster for Paul Nuttall (for whom this is the fifth attempt to get into the Commons — still short of Nigel Farage's number), heralding the beginning of a big Ukip surge into working - class Labour heartlands; it could end up with a very close three -(or even four -, depending on Liberal Democrat performance) way race that shows the new divides in the electorate in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Labour has its own UKIP problem which is currently more intractable unless it can re-connect with the working class, small businesses and people who work in trades in its heartlands.

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

Many of them are working class voters living in the former Labour heartlands of the west central belt: the type of voters that New Labour routinely neglected in its pursuit of middle England.

He said there were four overlapping groups to which the Tories have failed to appeal: working class voters, northern urban voters, ethnic minority voters and people outside the Tory heartlands.

George Osborne's intuition that benefit and immigration caps could drive a wedge between Ed Miliband and Labour's heartland working class voters has been confirmed by Downing Street's pollster Andrew Cooper.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).

Recalling early David Gordon Green films (particularly in the excellent use of non-actors to authentically portray the working class American heartland), this is the assured 2nd feature from Chloé Zhao.

With ABOUT SCHMIDT, Alexander Payne fixes the same acute eye he used in both CITIZEN RUTH and ELECTION to once again rip the façade of wholesome gentility from the upper middle class of the heartland of America and to show us the savagery beneath.

The sight of the 2014 Mercedes - Benz B - Class Electric Drive in suburban Silicon Valley shows us that Mercedes - Benz believes the suburbs will continue to be the heartland of America, not the futuristic mega-cities that Europeans are talking about.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».