Sentences with phrase «coming libdem»

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Having made an apparently copper - bottomed campaign pledge to appeal to the student vote, many LibDem MPs have found out the hard way that headline - grabbing promises in the heat of an election campaign can come back to bite you hard if they are impossible to credibly support in office.

The same tribal tendencies and insatiable desire to criticise policies based on who came up with them, not what they are, is likely responsible both for this post and for the various of the cited LibDem criticisms of the policy when Labour had it.

They came from the LibDems but, significantly, from Labour too.

So the LibDems betrayed their principals and this reform comes from them, how can I support that?

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

LibDem membership passes 80,000 — 1000 + new since May's speech, half since Labour confirmed they'll vote to trigger article 50 come what may

In his only clear nod to the LibDems on PR he promised a full report on the success of the new voting methods used since Labour came to power.

The great big hulk of an elephant hiding in the corner for both the LibDems and Labour when it comes to being «progressive» with regard to the empowerment of the citizen is quite simply the EU.

Mark Littlewood is the former LibDem head - of - spin who has become the chief wonk at the venerable Institute of Economic Affairs, the directorship of which comes with a (big for wonkland) # 100,000 pay package.

5 Conservatives, 1 Independent, 1 Green, 9 SNP and 3 Libdem MSPs came out.

The LibDem party is discussing and appraising its views of what comes next for the Coalition Agreement and, historically, almost every political party around world has undertaken some form of mid-term evaluation.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

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,

With LibDem support now below 10 % and little or no prospect of the economy coming good by the next General Election, the LibDems are facing obliteration and are rapidly running out of time.

How come the politics section of the bbc website, during the tory party conference has had a «party conference» section whereas during labour's conference the section was call «labour conference» and durring the libdem conference it was called «lib dem conference»?

Or, if you despair of the pathetic «Leadership» offered by The PLP majority, come & join The Libdems.

Less than half the Ukip vote came from the Tories if it did, then, the Tories getting more votes than last time, couldn't have got all their increased votes ex libdems

But then came the bombshell of our normal poll for The Sun showing the LibDems running a strong second, pushing back Labour to third.

BenM, I dnt know what these Blairites, in2010 you think predicted a easy Tory victory his time are, OK many people suggested in the media, it would take 2 election for the Tories too win in 2010, I recall many people saying the cuts would be so savage that whoever won, would be out of power for years after wards, Dan Hodges has been predicting a Tory win, but he backed David Miliband for leader, so he didn't start saying this till 2012 ′ and the bonus of Ulip (allegedly) spitting the right wing vote and ex Libdems coming back to us, would have made a labour win, all the easier,