Sentences with phrase «electoral disaster»

It could also spell electoral disaster for Labour in the next general election.

This inaction seems to capture the mood of the Canadian public: the one serious attempt to promote a carbon tax, by the Liberal party, ended in electoral disaster in 2008.

If, over the past twenty years, the GOP had to rely primarily on Mainline Protestants, the party would have suffered electoral disasters far greater than that in 1992.

Failure to find private sector work for 40,000 state workers laid off each year would spell electoral disaster for Cameron and Osborne.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has erased a $ 19 million - plus debt months ahead of schedule, a major achievement for a party committee that was reeling from electoral disaster in November 2010.

From outcast campaigner through looming electoral disaster to near - triumph, Corbyn's remarkable political journey is far from over.

«Accordingly, plaintiffs ask this court to avert this impending electoral disaster by appointing a special master to effectuate independent redistricting based upon fair criteria.»

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.

He should not be underestimated, not least because he played a leading role in ending the Brown Bounce and potential electoral disaster last October with his inheritance tax announcement.

Uncut is born out of the ashes of Labour's electoral disaster in May.

Then he faded from the scene for a couple of decades, only to be picked up by the left wing of the Democratic party after their electoral disaster of 2004 in order to certify their sympathy for «religious values.»

That's a recipe for electoral disaster.

And we believe the party must start tackling this issue before it gets out of hand, and begin to create needless problems whose consequences could lead to electoral disaster.

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.

This is our best chance to send a clear message to the leadership that the ConDem policies are an electoral disaster for them.

Labour claims it has avoided «electoral disaster», despite losing seats across England, Scotland and Wales.

Instead, as Diane Abbott MP argues, pursuing UKIP policies risks both political and electoral disaster.

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL Last week, The New York Times broke the unsurprising news that Christine Quinn's electoral disaster may have been more than rejection of her politics, but of Quinn herself — her female screech and high - pitched voice, the childlessness supposedly antagonistic to families, her unfeminine pushiness and goshdang dykey masculinity no man wants to stare -LSB-...]

Rebellion signals troublesome infighting and often leads to electoral disaster.

But this would be electoral disaster.

Conventionally, a privately - educated, tweed - wearing, pub - frequenting politician would be an electoral disaster.

Commentators including The Guardian's Polly Toynbee have agreed that the «blank cheque» could be Labour's best hope of averting an electoral disaster.

Undeniably, he's shaping up to be an electoral disaster.

Rival factions can each cite an electoral disaster in support of their preferred strategic departure post-Miliband.

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

«He has nothing to celebrate because of the electoral disaster awaiting him.

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL Last week, The New York Times broke the unsurprising news that Christine Quinn's electoral disaster may have been more than rejection of her politics, but of Quinn herself — her female screech and high - pitched voice, the childlessness supposedly antagonistic to families, her unfeminine pushiness and goshdang dykey masculinity no man wants to stare at and no woman wants to be accused of.

Even in the event of an electoral disaster, Corbyn would not stand down, relying instead on the support of the party membership to fend off a vote of no confidence, Foster predicted.

Every single person I spoke to though Gordon Brown is an electoral disaster / liability!

In the wake of the electoral disaster, President François Hollande ditched almost half of his Cabinet, including Fioraso; the new prime minister, Manuel Valls, announced yesterday that career politician Benoît Hamon will succeed her in a new superministry that also encompasses primary and secondary education.