Sentences with phrase «disaster for labour»

What an absolute disaster for Labour.

Instead, the Chilcot inquiry is quietly but surely turning into a new disaster for Labour.

Secondly, the Lib Dems doing well against the Tories is not a disaster for Labour.

However the shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, accused the media of whipping up a narrative that unfairly declared «everything a disaster for Labour».

The election was a disaster for Labour, which had hoped to form at least a minority government, and an outright catastrophe for the Conservatives» partners in coalition, the Liberal Democrats.

It was a disaster for Labour, which was reduced to a small minority of 52 seats.

The result was a disaster for Labour and candidate Gill Troughton, who left pursued by journalists

In contrast, sticking to the Tory spending limits in the next Parliament would be a disaster for Labour».

Whilst many people were suggesting it would be a disaster for Labour, this piece written by leading Ukip expert Matthew Goodwin, rightly predicted that the party would not do as well as people thought.

It's a disastrous issue for the government and for the Conservative Party but it's also I think a disaster for the Labour Party.

Not exact matches

Ken Clarke's departure from the government would be a disaster for the future of civil rights in this country and for any hope of clawing back some of the rights lost under a succession of deeply illiberal New Labour home secretaries.

«What Nick will need to do as deputy prime minister is to show what a difference the Liberal Democrats have made and why a majority for either Conservatives or Labour at the election would be a disaster,» blog Lib Dem Voice quoted him as saying.

Disclaimer: First thing tomorrow I'm going to vote for Labour, I think the Tories would be a disaster.

Gloomy Labour MPs thought they were heading for disaster under Jeremy Corbyn.

Once 35 % would have been seen as an electoral disaster for either Labour or the Tories — it's what Neil Kinnock polled in 1992 — now it would be seen as respectable.

Recently the BBC reported that he had not forgiven The Sun for its coverage of the disaster indicating that if he became leader he would not be disposed to do «special favours» for papers «attacking» him or Labour.

The scrabble for fourth place in a seat Labour was never likely to win is not a disaster, it's a disappointment.

Labour is being urged to lead calls for the establishment of a UN rapid reaction disaster relief force.

A month ago, Labour had one of its worst ever performances in the local elections, pointing to disaster for Corbyn in Thursday's general election.

Titled, «Questions all Jeremy Corbyn supporters need to answer», Jones argues Labour are heading for a disaster due to a lack of strategy from Corbyn's team, and asks supporters the following: How can the disastrous polling be turned around?

Vince Cable has refused to apologise for the Government's handling of the Royal Mail privatisation, amid Labour claims of a «first - class disaster».

They've all signed a motion urging Labour not to sign up to Conservative party spending plans, which they say would be a «disaster» for Labour.

Like now, the Labour establishment rallied around to warn that Ken would be a disaster for both the party and London.

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

All this was clear enough at the time, and no amount of rewriting history can alter the fact that New Labour was a bloody disaster both for Labour values and for Labour as a party.

Election 2015: Exclusive Daily Record poll predicts disaster for Murphy's Labour in Scottish heartlands 6 May 2015

Lib Dem voters decamping to Labour could mean a wipeout for the Tories, and disaster for Cameron.

In Wales, Plaid is self - critical for its dalliance in coalition with a Labour Party that, under Rhodri Morgan, retained a modicum of «clear red water» against Westminster and just held on to Assembly power, despite the British electoral disaster.

What if tonight's European election results bring even greater disaster — say, less than 20 per cent for Labour?

For Labour members, many still reeling from last year's brutal election defeat, electoral disaster is unthinkable.

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He wrote on his blog: «For socialists in the Labour Party it will be a relief that the Blairite plan to stage two electoral disasters on one night failed.

Corbyn told: Take blame for Copeland bye lection flop or we face disaster TOM BABY STOP THE C ** P IN THIS ARTICAL O.K. Hang on a minute here Tom baby the true facts here is you are, YOU ALL ARE TO BLAME NOT JUST Mr. CORBYN O.K. 1 ** Your mate in the Labour party that is Tory light you should be getting rid off They and all you Labour M.P. + Minister are covering there asses In addition, bringing the Labour party to its knees a fact!

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

Labour has to face up to this monumental foreign affairs disaster, arguably a war crime, and press for the prosecution of Tony Blair.

And last summer, after the disaster that kept giving that was Falkirk - when Unite was accused of attempting to rig the process to select a Labour candidate in the by - election - Ed Miliband stood tall and declared it was time for change.

«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for war and national might over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»