Sentences with phrase «core labour supporters»

On the left, the Labour leader is surrounded by Leanne Wood of Plaid Cymru, who was once arrested for protesting over Trident and told to leave the Welsh Assembly chamber for calling the Queen «Mrs Windsor»; Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, who is a fiery and accomplished debater intent on savaging Miliband for signing up to the austerity agenda; and Natalie Bennett of the Greens, who can promote precisely the sorts of policies core Labour supporters are desperate to see.

In so many ways it encapsulates the cynical view of core Labour supporters and values as something to be manipulated and managed by an all - seeing bureaucracy.

Throughout his speech, the Labour leader appeared to target core Labour supporters, using the word «rigged» five times and «rich» or «richest» 16 times.

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We were witnessing the beginnings of a party being hollowed out and of a deepening disconnection between Labour MPs and their core supporters, which, in time, would empower the SNP in Scotland and create an opportunity for Ukip in England.

Labour doesn't think twice about abandoning its core supporters, taking away from the most vulnerable, etc..

Probably because the parliamentary Labour party, which overwhelmingly backs Smith, still clings onto the illusion that no matter how obnoxiously the party behaves towards its core supporters, it is still entitled to millions of votes from poor voters who have no alternative.

I'm now back in a very snowy Washington — waiting to see if the Republican Party's core supporters are as «mad» as the Labour Party's Corbynistas — in both of the most common understandings of that word.

Labour have continued to win seats in their core constituencies because the majority of their old supporters refuse to vote for other parties but those are slowly dying off.

A majority in the Labour movement believe the party lost the election because its traditional core supporters decided not to vote Labour, not because middle class swing voters went to other parties.

Equally important Labour needs to arm its core supporters with the arguments against the vilification of Muslims to ensure they are not seduced by UKIP and Tory reactionary propaganda.

Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.

When faced with such a haemorrhaging of core supporters to the SNP, it is extremely worrying that Labour's membership is so out - of - step with the party's trade union base, especially when the membership in Scotland is so small compared wiith other parts of the UK.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Conservative campaigners say that, while their core vote has remained solid, it's the Labour supporters which are expressing interest in Tory policies in a way that never really happened before.

For some of Labour's core white working class supporters, a defence of an outward - looking Britain would be seen as precisely the metropolitan elitism Farage is so adept at criticising.

Labour is out of touch with it's core supporters on immigration and will be «out of power for a generation» unless it changes, one of it's MPs claimed last night.

In a message for he core supporters, he insisted Labour was now «an anti-austerity party» that would fight the Government's spending cuts.

According to his supporters, he's the man who will lead Labour away from Blairism and reconnect the party with its core supporters and traditional values.

Mandelson is caricaturing Ed Miliband's position but the former Climate Change Secretary has certainly called on Labour to tilt more towards its core supporters.

Labour's chances of winning an outright majority at the next election — or even of forming part of a coalition — now seem to depend on an heroic effort from core supporters in its heartlands.

In his pitch to MPs tomorrow he will criticise new Labour's courting of big business, saying it sent out the wrong message to the party's core supporters.

I would then Classify the views of Cooper to be much more in line with the «Socially Liberal, pro EU» Labour member / supporter who's views don't currently fit in with the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but more with the «Core vote, possible Libdem» voter who could be attracted to a new centre party.

Ed had been able to get across the worry a lot of Core labour voters have about immigration concerning work, and not be shouted down as a racist by the likes of Diane Abbott, the way other labour supporters like lord Glasman or rod Liddle have in the past, when as Liddle pointed out lately, it's the rich bosses employing Eastern European workers that have financially benefitted, not the working class, and the mess Cameron has made over Junkter, is nothing to the failure of Ed, to score over Andy Coulson scandal,

There are no sane voices in the Labour Party that can be heard over this shouting - in fact it is worse than being drowned out because the so called «moderates» are themselves fully signed up to the EU project and actually not just disagree with their core supporters - they despise them for their views.

I'm told that Tory core voters are fired up, fearing a clean sweep by the red menace, while many Labour supporters are relatively uninterested in local elections.