Sentences with phrase «class labour members»

If middle class labour members continue to push progressive policies they may even lose even more of the traditional working class vote.

Not exact matches

«But if we are to go out and convince thousands of working class men and women that they want to sign up to be associate Labour Party members they will not be interested in the rule - book, or even the history.

«If we are to go out and convince thousands of working class men and women that they want to sign up to be associate Labour party members they will not be interested in the rulebook, or even the history,» he told the annual Durham miners» gala.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

22nd January 2018, Independent: The Corbyn surge: Labour's members tend to be older, middle class, and gender balanced

If one sells their labour (when they work in a factory for instance) than they are a proletarian, if one sells products or services for their living they are a member of the bourgeois class.

Caroline Flint is demoted from DCLG to DECC despite being a confident media performer, and one of the few Shadow Cabinet members to openly «get» the need for Labour to widen its appeal to the middle classes in order to win elections.

Clause I — Name — The Labour Party Clause II — Membership — There shall be two classes of members, namely a) Affiliated members b) Individual members.»

Half of Labour's candidates in marginals are «fully paid up members» of the political class (like Ed Miliband) rather than people who have done «real jobs», like John Prescott, according to a Guardian report.

David Willetts sets out his position on off - quota university places, and Labour members retreat to old - fashioned class war insults

Writing on his website, Mann said: «Hidden from the discussion of Labour's big increase in membership is any analysis of who has joined as fee - paying individual members, but a deeper examination will show that it is overwhelmingly the middle classes who are joining.»

The watchdog was responding Conservative party concerns that the institute should not be classed as a charity while it was so closely aligned with members of the Labour party.

«Hidden from the discussion of Labour's big increase in membership is any analysis of who has joined as fee paying individual members, but a deeper examination will show that it is overwhelmingly the middle classes who are joining.

«When Labour's membership was last this high in 1997, there was a very different picture with a good mix of members coming from all backgrounds and classes.

Landless peasant insulting ex labour voters who went to ukip, you sound like those labour members who 33 years ago couldn't understand why the working class voted tory

It was Tory - held between 1979 and 1987, but is technically now classed a Labour / Plaid marginal, with the Conservatives having come fourth with 11 % of the vote in 2005 - although the third - placed Independent, Peter Rogers, had previously been a Conservative Assembly Member.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

The Labour activist who famously turned up at the Crewe and Nantwich by - election in top hat and tails to play class war against Cameron was on the phone to local Tory Chairmen, advising on how they could best motivate their members to campaign on this issue.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Miss Harman's focus on disparities in class and wealth will appeal to traditional left - wing Labour members and trade unionists, and may fuel speculation she will one day run for the party leadership.

We weighted the raw data to our estimates of the age, gender and social class of party members and the members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party.

Under the proposals, each of the roughly 200,000 Labour members will get a single vote in choosing the leader, but so will a new class of so - called associate members, who will pay a membership fee of # 3 a year.

The former Labour Cabinet minister says moderate party members must seize it back from «middle class» left - wingers who see winning elections as a betrayal of their principles.

Each of the roughly 200,000 Labour members will get a single vote in choosing the leader, but so will a new class of so - called associate members - paying a membership fee of just # 3 a year.

However, in this case the criteria for inclusion depended on the outcome of the action; the claimant had described the class as the victims of inflated air freight prices, rather than as members of a pre-existing class, as the stallholders in Covent Garden or members of a Labour party constituency association had been in cases going back to 1901.

So, the Ontario Superior Court has added to the decisions confirming that class action proceedings are appropriate — even preferable — for claims arising from mass terminations, even if the common issues trial won't dispose of all the issues and some of the class members have already started or finished proceedings in other forums, particularly with the Ministry of Labour and the Labour Relations Board, which preclude class claims.

Chief Justice Winkler is a nationally recognized legal scholar and author, an expert in labour law and class action law and practical jurist who has been a member of the Ontario court system for the past 14 years, the last three as the Regional Senior Judge for the Toronto Region.