Sentences with phrase «failed referendum in»

It was only in the run - up to the ultimately failed referendum in 2014 that support for both the SNP in the House of Commons and their raison d'etre of independence soared to the crucial 50 per cent mark.

Steve Scholten, the park district's executive director, said a second pathway at Lake Arlington would cost $ 875,000 and was included in the improvement plans for both failed referendums in 2012.

Not exact matches

Following the failed Scottish independence referendum in 2014, the party wanted to personalize its message, and harness its limited but growing grassroots support.

There was the shock Brexit vote in the UK, Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election, a failed Italian referendum and many more factors that provided countless opportunities for forex traders to profit.

Financial Times Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Iceland's president, has created uproar with his decision to block legislation that would have repaid $ 3.9 bn ($ 5.6 bn) lost by British and Dutch savers in a failed Icelandic bank, triggering a referendum that the government is expected to lose.

The former commodities trader was instrumental in the campaign to leave the European Union (EU), and following the referendum's passage, Farage invoked the 1996 sci - fi action film «Independence Day» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policies.

In September 2014, you might remember, a referendum to quit the United Kingdom failed.

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

Although two referendums to create a park district in Algonquin have failed, some think it «s time for another try.

The most recent referendum was in 1978, and it failed.

The referendum failed and voter feedback indicated that the tax dollars requested should be reduced and limited in duration and that specific projects with timelines for completion should be identified.

A similar, more expensive $ 48 million referendum failed in the March election with 52.63 percent of votes rejecting it out of 12,189 votes cast.

Cartsens, who also serves as director of facilities for the Illinois Park and Recreation Association, predicted that Cary residents soon could face shortages in recreation opportunities, particularly in children's programs, because of failed referendums over recent years.

In Arlington Heights, some candidates are calling for a second referendum to build an addition to the library; a similar effort failed last year.

And as the district marks its anniversary, officials point to high satisfaction ratings in a survey of patrons and a balanced, $ 16 million budget as signs that the district is successful — despite a tax referendum that failed in April.

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

Zopmal said the Middle Belt region would not take a step back on restructuring and would immediately usher in a demand for referendum if restructuring fails.

Even defeat in the 2014 independent referendum failed to derail the SNP juggernaut.

The party may have saved the union by masterminding last year's referendum operation, but it has failed to stop a surge in nationalistic spirit that looks set to sweep Labour MPs from Westminster.

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

However, this policy of holding a referendum on AV appears to be designed to fail, as I pointed out in my blog four months ago when Gordon Brown first suggested it.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Political capital: Brown's failed here, pitching STV as the likely option on the referendum ballot would have driven a wedge in to westminster.

What is different this time in England is that there does appear to be some clear momentum behind these arguments, unlike in the failed north - east referendum in 2004, for example.

They've ignored us and failed to deliver the jobs, infrastructure and services we need, and now they want to ignore how we voted in the referendum.

MassResistance mounted a petition drive for a referendum to reinstate the law in October 2008, but failed to collect enough signatures.

On the other hand, if the Scottish government fails to achieve this or gain enough support for a second independence referendum, Labour could claim to have a credible alternative that voters can support in a Scottish election.

He wrote to the Smith Commission: «The argument some use to justify our exclusion on the grounds that we currently have no «parliamentary representation» fails to appreciate that the referendum was not a parliamentary process, but an unprecedented public debate that resulted in an extraordinary level of engagement from all sections of society.»

While the last convention referendum failed in 1997, political consultant Michael Dawidziak attributed this year's frenzied anti-convention campaign to a new factor not then in play: the internet.

Rebel Tory backbenchers fail in their attempt to impose thresholds on the AV Referendum - but 21 MPs back the bid before the bill clears the Commons

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

Marc Brunel - Walker (SE): If we do not succeed forcing a referendum in the Commons; if we fail to win in the Lords; if all other EU member states ratify the Treaty; and if an election is held later in this Parliament after the Lisbon Treaty has come into force we would be faced with the unacceptable situation of further integration having taken place without people being properly consulted.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond, who stepped down after his failed bid to win independence after the Scottish referendum, won the SNP seat in Gordon.

In 1979, however, the Welsh Liberals suffered from the Lib - Lab pact, and support for the failed devolution referendum resulted in a poor election for the Liberals: over half of their 28 candidates lost their deposiIn 1979, however, the Welsh Liberals suffered from the Lib - Lab pact, and support for the failed devolution referendum resulted in a poor election for the Liberals: over half of their 28 candidates lost their deposiin a poor election for the Liberals: over half of their 28 candidates lost their deposit.

Last week David Cameron failed to say whether Wales would receive a «funding floor» if it rejects tax varying powers in a referendum.

The referendum required approval by 60 % of votes and simple majorities in 60 % of the 79 districts in order to pass: final results indicate that the referendum failed with only 57.7 % of votes in favor, although it did have majority support in 77 of the 79 electoral districts.

When told that the governor's plan is to push for more gambling in New York regardless of whether a public referendum passes or fails this fall, with VLT casinos as the default plan, New Yorkers were even more strongly opposed, with 65 percent saying they feel that's a bad idea.

«If the referendum fails, generations of support for gaming in the Catskills will be dashed for no other reason, perhaps, than a failure to offer the best, most transparent plan, that provides the maximum information to voters.

If we are to have a referendum on Biafra, it will fail; even if it will win, it will only be in the South - East zone, which has only five states against 31 other states.»

Bloomberg spent $ 7 million of his own money pushing nonpartisan elections in a 2003 referendum that failed 70 % to 30 %, but never wavered in his belief that removing party labels in local elections would lead to better competition and decrease the power of political bosses.

Corbyn has been hit by scores of resignations and has failed to win the backing of 80 % of his MPs in a confidence ballot since Britain voted to leave the European Union in June's referendum.

Concern about the growing support for the SNP's proposals for an independent Scottish state — boosted by the discovery of North Sea oil in 1970 — led Harold Wilson's government to set in motion the devolution referendum, which took place, and failed, in 1979.

Due, perhaps in part to a rushed and uninformed debate, the referendum failed dramatically.

But the agenda failed its first serious test in the defeated AV referendum, and now it has failed on the Lords too.

A bill to give voters a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU today officially failed in the House of Lords.

He will say: «Nobody who campaigned in Scotland during the referendum could fail to be shaped by the experience.

The decision to hold a referendum in the first place was party political — former Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt, monumentally failed, to silence Conservative eurosceptics and to quash UKIP.

Labriola, the party chairman, said that the election will be a «referendum on Connecticut's failed economy» and that the candidates are looking to use disappointment in their favor.

There's one other intriguing possibility - which some Labour people suspect may have happened - that in a desperate moment Gordon Brown privately offered Lib Dems AV without an referendum, but failed to tell Jack Straw or any of his other colleagues or the Labour negotiators about his offer.

It also cited an instance of how Kanu allegedly incited his followers «to disrupt, disallow and boycott elections in south East states, starting with Anambra State governorship election scheduled to hold onvbNovember 18, 2017, if the Federal Government failed to hold a referendum for the realisation of the state of Biafra nation.»