Sentences with phrase «class voters think»

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I think Boesner would run second in voters minds because he's a great kid with a world class shot, he's American, and he will challenge for the RR trophy for some time.

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

Straw says Labour lost working - class voters to Ukip and was complacent in thinking that Nigel Farage's party would damage the Tories most.

The admission that middle - class benefits are facing the chop will anger many elderly voters, who thought they had an assurance from the Tory leader that their benefits would be safe.»

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

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)

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

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?

It thought about the nature of Internet filter bubbles, and why its message ceased to resonate with white working - class voters, which once was a core part of the Democratic base.