Sentences with phrase «electoral oblivion»
"Electoral oblivion" refers to a situation where a political party or candidate loses by such a large margin in an election that they are completely forgotten or ignored in future elections. It means they suffer a severe defeat and are not relevant or influential anymore in the political landscape. Full definition
But if you're heading for electoral oblivion, say, you might not.
politics.co.uk
Plus, the party will do well enough in his heartlands in the local elections to please activists and reassure most Labour MPs they are not facing electoral oblivion in 2020.
The ceaseless slide into electoral oblivion continued in 2004 with the party obtaining 1.92 percent.
Through a series of tough - sometimes brutal - local campaigns, such as in Hammersmith, the party saved itself from electoral oblivion.
Faced with electoral oblivion the Tories came together in Blackpool and the brave faces of the start of the week became election bravehearts.
The key lesson from Germany was that if the leader of the junior party seems to be more in tune with the senior party's politics then his / her own, the road to electoral oblivion beckons.
He has been compared recently with Jim Callaghan and John Major as they headed towards electoral oblivion.
All of which is music to the ears of a Tory press delighting in Labour's current woes to the extent that one newspaper, the Daily Telegraph to be precise, ran a «joke» feature which encouraged its readers to become registered supporters of the Labour party: so that they could the vote to ensure Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader and Labour is «consigned to electoral oblivion».
But what none of them can explain is why those supposedly responsible policies have in the past decade condemned European economies to stagnation and European social democratic parties to electoral oblivion.
They will lead to electoral oblivion.
Year after year their remaining members trudge to party conference, this time in the misty far - away lands of Glasgow, and continue a journey that surely leads to electoral oblivion.
You clearly understand what electoral oblivion means (your reference to Pasok) but everything about your agenda screams out a well - organised «seriously» left party and manifesto, but lacks any touchpoint with the electorate and surely that will lead to similar electoral oblivion.
Simon Jenkins in the Guardian was absolutely right - Clegg has booked a one - way trip to electoral oblivion.
Forcing a General Election would mean electoral oblivion for them, and even if it didn't and they achieved their beloved hung parliament again, what could Labour possibly offer them that they would be actually interested in having?