Sentences with phrase «election promise not»

The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who has been accused of breaking her election promise not to introduce a carbon tax, rejected this charge yesterday.

The Liberal Democrats, Mr Huhne's party, went into the election promising not to build new nuclear power stations, whereas the Conservatives favoured replacing ageing stations.

Not exact matches

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

Make a promise to yourself today that you won't use the election results as an excuse!

Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

«I think (Prime Minister Alexis) Tsipras will lose (the election), because I think we Greeks become resentful to the people that promised things and didn't manage to deliver,» Hatzi said.

Having been elected on promises that may not take effect until after the next election, the government must show a real commitment to achieving those goals.

Italy's borrowing costs have come down in recent months, helped by the promise of European Central Bank support but the election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.

Trump, a self - professed fan of junk food, has not been explicit on what he plans to do with food policy, although he campaigned for the Nov. 8 election on a broad promise to undo regulations on business.

Because CBSA is not letting importers qualify for the tariff exemption, consumers will pay higher prices for imported electronic goods − exactly what the Conservatives promised to avoid during the 2011 election campaign.

Not running a deficit under any circumstances was the position that the Conservatives had run on in the 2008 election, and the other parties had made similar promises.

The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan in B.C., who promised in the election last summer to try to stop the project.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

He also said he hoped the company would deliver on its promises of improved returns so «we don't need to run for election next year.»

In the tabling of the Main Estimates, the President of the Treasury Board made no reference to the election promise and why it was not honoured at this time.

His latest Update does not include the cost of the Liberals» election promises.

Unfortunately for them, the Conservatives did not promise them anything during the 2011 election campaign.

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

These revised deficit forecasts are on a «status quo» basis; that is they do not include the impact of most of the election promises.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

The NDP's election platform included a promise to raise the carbon tax, but the increases would not begin until 2020.

Looking ahead to the election, does the politics of coalition mean we're getting politicians making promises that can't be delivered?

Unlike, election - time candidates, Jesus never made any promises that he couldn't keep.

In such cases, we may grumble and protest and promise to vote against the perpetrators next election day, but we do not feel that we have become victims of an outrage.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

We don't always agree on theology or politics, (the 2016 election promises to raise the pitch of our dinner conversations a few decibels), but my parents have always prioritized maintaining our relationship over maintaining ideological uniformity.

Aside from Donald Trump's call to «repeal and replace» Obamacare and Hillary Clinton's promise to repeal the Hyde Amendment, bioethical issues were not much discussed during the 2016 election.

In Harbin, Mr Joyce said the government would not back away from its election promise of setting up a farmland register, despite suggestions it had been delayed to prevent it from sparking foreign investment fears as the free trade negotiations reached their climax.

Hacked off Milan trying to chase Kaka, hacked off Manchester United trying to sign Cristiano Ronaldo — but eventually succeeded — hacked off Villarreal trying to sign Santi Cazorla right after hacking off Valencia trying to sign David Silva and / or David Villa, hacked off Madrid's own fans with broken election promises of Cesc Fabregas, Kaka and Arjen Robben, but eventually got Arjen Robben, who Chelsea didn't want anymore anyway, and then Calderon's interim successor, Ivan Boluda went on and talked smack about walloping Liverpool in the CL, only to be walloped.

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

What would your top three campaign promises be?To be truthful, to carry out my election promises, and to not spring any surprises on the population when it came to situations that were controversial.

While sanctioning Iran for no good reason looks good for Trump personally (he fulfills his election promise to be tough on Iran), it's not good for the US.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

As promised, a new version of the recently released guide to using the internet to win elections in 2010 is now available, so download it today — don't wait for the rush.

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.

Not only did many of them feel betrayed by the Brexit vote but many more turned their back on the brand of Conservatism offered to them last June in the election and instead opted for the empty and costly promises of Corbyn's Labour.

We are used to election campaigns containing promises which we suspect won't be kept.

In ideal circumstances it is a tax cut that he would favour, but he will insist today that the Tories will not promise any unfunded reductions at the next election.»

«The Liberal Democrats will fight the next election on a clear and unequivocal promise to restore British prosperity and role in the world, with the United Kingdom in the European Union, not out.

In principle any system with repeated elections does this to some extent as regards politicians, in that people tend not to vote for a politician or party which is thought to breaks promises.

It is essential that the new legislation delivers on the coalition's election promises, such as a Green Investment Bank and pollution standards for power stations - saying they «may» be included in the Energy Bill is just not good enough.

While a final decision on whether to renew Trident has been put off until 2016, the issue promises to resurface periodically between then and now — not least of all in next year's general election campaign and this year's referendum on Scottish independence.

Cameron's referendum promise may well not prevent the Conservatives from breaking up, but, if Labour wins the next election, the Tories will probably campaign for a «no» vote anyway.

He succeeded Independent MP Martin Bell, who had defeated the controversial former Conservative minister Neil Hamilton in 1997 but had kept his promise not to stand there at the following election.

The Conservative manifesto for the 2015 general election contained a promise not to raise income tax, VAT, or national insurance for the duration of the parliament.

According to Mahama, the Akufo - Addo - led government made fake assurances just to win the 2016 elections for which they achieved, and as of now, most of his bogus promises have not been fulfilled.

This comes on the heels of the majority leader's waffling on his election - year promise to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch that he (not to mention every member of his 32 - person GOP conference) would co-sponsor a bill to form an independent redistricting commission by March 1, Sampson noted.

The Conservative candidate for Richmond says he would force a by - election if his campaign promises are not fulfilled.

On the NHS, the small re al terms increase will be more than swallowed by the waste of # 2 to # 3bn on a top down reorganisation they promised in the election not to undertake.

Stephen Crabb's warm words on devolution, or promises of money for rail improvements after the next election, doesn't alter the fact that on his watch more than huge swathes of the Welsh workforce have entered a Tory twilight zone of insecurity, low pay and under - employment.