Sentences with phrase «electoral force»

And my thesis is that this is the key thing that holds them back as a more potent electoral force.

Just a few years ago, the party seemed on the brink of becoming a significant electoral force.

If 32BJ and the CWA can turn out a decent chunk of regular WFP voters for Cuomo, their reputations as electoral forces will be proven and their standing will be enhanced in Albany.

«I am delighted that the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland and the Ulster Unionists have made such great progress in creating a new electoral force in Northern Irish politics.

It is one of a handful of districts citywide where Jewish voters are not a major electoral force.

The frontrunner in the Liberal Democrat leadership race has vowed to make the party a viable electoral force within the next two or three elections.

But what about the possibility that under PR the Tories would probably face the emergence of a stronger electoral force to their right - a version of UKIP perhaps reinforced by Tories defecting from Cameron's party in disgust?

Should Labour begin to lose its stranglehold on Wales, as it did so dramatically in Scotland in 2015, then the future for the party as a UK electoral force really will be looking bleak.

Will people honestly be able to say Miliband modernised his party, united it, and trained it up to be a competitive electoral force, in the same way Kinnock did?

Mr Farage, almost single - handedly, has leveraged popular hostility to Europe, immigration and the political establishment into a national electoral force.

Jeremy Corbyn has defied the pundits and the pollsters to restore the Labour party as a serious electoral force and deliver a devastating blow to Theresa May's political authority.

«We have to take all the outrage and enthusiasm around this issue and turn it into a real electoral force in 2018,» he said, echoing what he told me earlier this year.

In summary, if UKIP moved their economic policy to the left, not too far to the left as I mentioned before, just away from the supply side tosh, they could become a major electoral force and convert those 15 to 17 per cent poll numbers into actual votes on the ground.

Labour has a responsibility to the country, our supporters and the values we hold dear to ensure the party is a viable electoral force.

«The only way that we can really get this to the top of the political agenda is to be an electoral force.

If Corbyn is removed there is a chance that the Labour Party might eventually recover as an electoral force, although it will have to find a political narrative that can regain lost ground from its competitors.

UKIP has performed well in recent West Midlands European elections — winning 3 of the 7 regional seats — but the party is unlikely to represent a significant force in Birmingham next month, as their current decline as an electoral force in British politics continues.

The 2015 decimation of the Liberal Democrats as an electoral force, combined with the inability of UKIP to translate its millions of votes into Commons seats, actually make it easier to dismiss electoral reform demands, because those with the power to pursue reform are those who sit on the government benches.

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.

Labour will come out of 2020 destroyed as an electoral force.

He added: «The country needs a strong Ukip more now than ever before, for if Ukip ceases to be an electoral force there will be no impetus on Theresa May and her government to give us real Brexit.

Noting the strides made by the Manhattan county Democratic organization, Yee believes the Democratic Party as a whole needs to «get its act together» in terms of engaging voters and transparency if it wants to be successful as an electoral force.

«When the BNP disappears as an electoral force, people who are still dissatisfied do look to other parties which to put their vote,» she said.

A year ago the Tories were sure they would snuff Labour out as an electoral force; instead Corbynism deprived Theresa May of a majority, ending a neoliberal consensus that had prevailed for a generation.