Sentences with phrase «class voters left»

Trickett told me recently: «Many working class voters left us, out of the five million.

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May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

She challenged analysis that talked up Labour success at the election pointing out that the Conservatives piled on voters in many northern seats that had voted Leave, among older voters and among the working class.

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.

There are vast swathes of voters in the UK who are socially conservative but economically left - wing, and expect the state to support them against the middle and upper - classes.

While a majority of AB and C1 (i.e. middle - class) social group voters wish to remain in the EU, a majority of C2 and DE (i.e. working - class) voters want to leave.

But we need to see UKIP in their proper context: firstly, they are a minority party and will stay there; secondly, they are growing in working class areas where the Labour Party's cultural shift left have lost longstanding voters.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

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?).

In other words, he tends to be precisely the left - behind voter who was once solidly Labour but who now feels economically insecure — and abandoned by Labour's middle - class, cosmopolitan and liberal values.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Approximately 161 Labour - held constituencies voted to Leave the EU, while only 70 voted to Remain, and C1 C2 DE (lower middle - class and working - class) voters all delivered majorities for Leave.

It seems likely that the one - third of Labour voters from the last general election who want to leave the EU are disproportionately drawn from the Labour party's historic — but increasingly perilous — working - class base, and there is little doubt that these economic concerns are a major explanation for their dissatisfaction.

They're trying to sway leadership to leave it alone or limit it to a degree so voters back home — particularly those in the middle class — don't see their overall tax bills increase because of tax reform.

In parts of old industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire, Ukip are beginning to pick the votes of disaffected working class voters, especially the low paid and low skilled workers who feel left behind by Labour.

Holding swing voters will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working class support to the polls, and reconnected with disillusioned left - liberals.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

In the House magazine interview two months ago, Mr McGinn accused left - wing politicians of «sneering» at the public and warned Mr Corbyn that Labour is losing touch with working class voters.

«Our coalition galvanized voters across a broad ideological spectrum to rise up and oppose a corrupt process that would enrich Albany's political class while leaving the rest of us behind,» said a statement from New Yorkers Against Corruption, the coalition that urged a «no» vote.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

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.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

The flip side, according to this view, is that Clinton accentuated too many issues that appeal to a narrower band of upper - middle - class college - educated voters, women in particular — things like paid family leave and pay equity.

Ukip stressed it had also taken votes from Labour, notably from what it terms «the left - behinds» — older working - class voters.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

Of those voters YouGov deems middle - class, 52 % are voting for remain, and just 32 % for leave.

Too many working - class northern Labour voters are being seduced by Vote Leave's disingenuous campaigning.

The concerns about his performance as head of the Labour In For Britain campaign came amid increasing evidence that working class voters are switching from Remain to Leave.

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

Given that the Tories were the preference for working class voters, it seems fantastical to believe that moving further to the left will magically win a majority of this group.

Where do the rank and file voters hear about conservative arguments and alternatives to the group think of CAGW, «social justice,» redistribution of income, class warfare and other propaganda of the left?