Sentences with phrase «class voters»

After all that was the political thinking that made council house sales so popular with working class voters.

Many lower middle class voters believe that they work hard and don't take welfare - or are refused it - while others get something for nothing.

But by a large 40 - 16 % margin, working class voters disagree.

Something that could — as in 1945, 1966 and 1997 — unite working - class and middle - class voters around a vision for society.

Working class and middle class voters alike tend to support political parties that support their economic interests.

The proportion of working - class voters seriously concerned about Labour on immigration was consistently more than 60 % throughout the last parliament — higher than concerns about handling the economy.

Alongside the SNP's triumph with working class voters, the party also took the biggest share of women.

Is it any surprise that white middle class voters are in rebellion?

The initial Labour reaction to the success of UKIP at attracting working class voters in many areas has focussed on the right policy response.

«I look forward to working with them through November to build campaigns that give voice to all the middle class voters left behind by this Republican Congress.»

To which Mr Lansman said: «But being concerned only with «winning» is how you drove working class voters away from @UKLabour to UKIP and the SNP.»

A recent YouGov survey for the Times found that by 32 - 28 %, Britain's middle class voters think immigration has helped the economy grow faster.

There is a growing chasm and disparity between the traditional working class voters Labour claims and aspires to represent, and the people clamouring to represent them — The Metropolitan Middle Class centre - left.

The decision to campaign as Better Together in conjunction with the Coalition parties alienated large numbers of working class voters from Scottish Labour.The lack of a «more devolution» option polarised working class opinion though that option was effectively revived in «the vow «agreed between the Westminster parties last month.

He quotes the BBC's political research editor, David Cowling, on the subject of working class voters voting for parties other than Labour:

Do they pull in the disaffected old left working class voters deserted by «new» Labour in recent decades?

Farage and his army of disgruntled, largely working - class voters seem to be rolling out their sleeping - bags in Miliband's cosy, little tent

Crudely put, Britain is increasingly Southern and middle class; for Labour to win they need to appeal to southern, middle class voters as well as their traditional working class supporters.

«Costello's exit should set off alarm bells for vulnerable House Republicans, who will also have to explain to middle class voters why they've given repeated handouts to the rich and biggest corporations, and who will face similarly tough, well - financed challenges from our deep field of impressive candidates,» said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Evan Lukaske.

If you want to read about populist nationalism and how it aroused the white working class voters then The Bad Boys of Brexit explains a lot.

Writing for thinktank Progress» magazine, the quintet argue middle - class voters need to be targeted if the party is to prevent what appears to be a landslide in the next general election.

Springer's proponents have highlighted his ability in the era of President Donald Trump to provide his own funding for a campaign and to connect with working - class voters familiar with his television show and history in Ohio politics.

Why did working - class voters choose a selfish, thin - skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

After the 2016 election, when white working - class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times and the Washington Post sent their reporters to the hinterlands of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to see just what had happened.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

With the SNP rampant in Scotland and boundary changes in the pipeline, it's difficult to see how Labour can become the largest party again without the Liberal Democrats regaining seats from the Conservatives — and equally hard to see how that can happen so long as middle - class voters fear a Labour government.

We have bigger concerns than a narrow focus aspirational skilled working class voters at the moment, and anyhow Rentoul's argument assumes that group's attitudes and priorities have not been affected by the recession.

Smith and his band of hardened electoral pragmatists are quick to accuse Corbyn of being out of touch with the common «man - in - the - street» outside London, and yet they continue to ignore — or actively support — Smith's biggest policy pledge that would clearly be popular with people who can afford the Eurostar or who go skiing, but would ensure millions of working class voters never vote Labour again.

«UKIP has had no trouble attracting working class voters because it's Thatcherite.»

Writing for the left - wing newspaper, Dugher warns that Labour is facing a «meltdown» in credibility among working class voters unless it acknowledges the downsides of mass EU immigration.

Otherwise they will find that they loose all of their working class voter base.

Ordinary lower middle class voters don't share the same concern that politicians in particular, and Labour politicians particularly, have for the poorest and those on welfare.

Many working - class voters like Harry, 71, have been portrayed as anxious, frustrated, angry and desperate.

While Labour's middle - class vote held up, the historic loss of 4 million working - class voters continued

And the evidence we have so far suggests that, while Labour's middle - class vote held up or increased last week, the historic loss of 4 million working - class voters under New Labour has continued.

Some 61 % of potential working class voters also backed a change in Labour policy, while only 4 % wanted to remain on track for a hard Brexit.

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.

It would appeal to the middle - class voters Mr Blair has wooed so assiduously.

Both places are filled with the white, working class voters where he lost to Clinton by big margins.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told a room full of Democrats from rural Upstate counties that President Donald Trump, who «literally lives in a gold - adorned apartment,» won support from working - class voters here by mentioning two simple themes:

The historical high - tide of labourism is passed; and Labour has never been able to win elections based upon working class voters alone, it has always been necessary to build a coalition with progressive professionals and managers; and with liberal intellectuals.

While the Northam campaign did not authorize the ad, it did dramatize Democratic fears that minority turnout will be lower even as white working - class voters throng to the polls.

«Surprisingly, working class voters prefer the Conservatives» handling of the economic crisis over Labour (44 % versus 34 %).»

So here we are, with low - income and working - class voters getting hammered and falling further behind their college - educated neighbors.