Sentences with phrase «conservative class war»

With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

Not exact matches

If conservative Christians continue to treat LGBT people as second - class citizens and cry persecution every time they don't get their way, they will lose far more than the culture wars.

Declaring herself a person of the left, she none theless has a sympathetic appreciation of black intellectuals and opinion makers who now call themselves conservative, although they still wage war against an older conservatism driven by racial and class prejudices.

From the French Revolution through the Cold War, conservatives resisted the delusion that any nation, class, or individual is the unique representative and judge of the human race.

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan's criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the subject miss Moynihan's broader point: It was not that too much money was being misspent on the poor, but rather that those resources which were directed at the poor were all too often funneled through the middle class professional classes:

That the Conservatives are ahead in framing the election year can be seen in how often ministers seem forced to contest Tory narratives — a debt crisis, the broken society, or the (ludicrous) idea that Labour has declared «class war».

Conservatives have declared a new class war, but it's not on bankers earning seven - figure bonuses.

In a political system organised around the dominance of the Conservatives, Labour's periods in office served primarily to head off and demoralise the waves of working class discontent which shook British society in the 1920s, after the Second World War and at the end of the post-war boom in the 1970s.

We mention the issue now in the context of the Labour Party's class war attacks on the Conservative Party.

A wealthy, middle - class and mostly owner - occupied seat this was a safe Conservative seat between the first world war and the 1990s.

It comes after a war of words erupted between the Conservatives and Labour earlier this year after Labour announced plans to restrict the number of pupils per class, something the Tories claim to already be doing.