Sentences with phrase «defend party culture»
Senior Labour figures defend party culture under Miliband and say Damian McBride is a «relic from the past»
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Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.
The Lib Dem leader added that, in rejecting proportional representation, Cameron was «defending a political culture of moats, duck houses, Ashcroft, party funding scandals and a system where you have hundreds of Labour and Conservative MPs who can completely dismiss and ignore their constituents».
His careful attempts to position the party as a brake on the more right - wing instincts of the Conservatives have been blown off course by having to deal with serious allegations about Liberal Democrat conduct and defend arcane aspects of party rules and culture.