Sentences with phrase «electoral oblivion in»

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.

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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».

Through a series of tough - sometimes brutal - local campaigns, such as in Hammersmith, the party saved itself from 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.

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.

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.

Simon Jenkins in the Guardian was absolutely right - Clegg has booked a one - way trip to electoral oblivion.