Sentences with phrase «fringe party»

As far as I am concerned, Nic could be a member of the Stark - Staring - Lunatic - Fringe Party or the Quietly - Tea - Sipping - Club - in - The - Corner Party or a lizard sunning himself on a rock or an axe - murderer.

I went with my fringe party earrings and just a couple bangles.

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I love the dramatic and creative prints you find in her recently released Artelier collection, so this fringe party dress seemed like the perfect fit for a street style look!

I also think these DIY fringe party hats from Almost Makes Perfect would be fun to try — they're a great alternative to the typical NYE headwear you'd find at party stores.

No, obviously I'd like to say that we're a government party, but what we've done is gone from being a fringe party to a government party.

Mr. Cuomo derided the WFP as a «fringe party» last week, comments he later walked back, and seemed to deliberately flout its union backers by promising to take a hard line against teachers and other public servants.

1997 taught the Conservative Party that a fringe party like the Referendum Party does not need to do spectacularly in order to deny us victory in crucial marginal seats.

Cuomo defended the party in an interview last week, telling WNYC's Brian Lehrer, «We've formed every kind of fringe party for every kind of reason.

UKIp have become an extreme right wing fringe party and the best thing we have ever done is to turn out backs on them and focus instead on the several millions of disatisfied, disaffected and disenfranchised voters from Labour, Lib dem and above all «none of the above» parties who want a reasonable alternative to Blairs Britain.

«We've formed every kind of fringe party for every kind of reason,» he said.

The President of Austria is a former Green Party chairperson, so clearly this party and its (former) leaders play a significant role in Austrian politics — it's not a fringe party.

We've formed every kind of fringe party for every kind of reason.

Speaking earlier today on an Albany radio station, Republican gubernatorial standard bearer Rob Astorino said Cuomo had sold his soul to a «fringe party» to get its endorsement.

«We've formed every kind of fringe party for every kind of reason,» the governor said.

But if you vote for a fringe party who gets knocked out, your other preferences will be counted.

By western European standards the GOP is between a conservative and right wing fringe party, whereas the Democrats are a centrist party.

If they want to be anything more than a fringe party they should drop him sharpish.

And yet at the last general election, the near - fringe party status of the Tories was confirmed when less than 17 % of Scots voted for them.

The wfp is a far left fringe party, only out to promote the government unions as a good, as if they contributed somehow to bettering government when they just make it bigger.

She'd be much better off NOT listening to this fringe party that's far far far off to the left.

Low thresholds could be seen as risky because they allow fringe parties, including nationalists, to access power.

Also: Italy's elections leave fringe parties in charge.

The steps taken by the party over the coming weeks could determine whether it can actually recover or whether it will join the list of conservative fringe parties after the next election.

Since the disappearance of the Social Credit Party in the 1970s, Alberta has seen its share of conservative fringe parties, usually based in central or southern rural Alberta — including the Western Canadian Concept, the Representative Party, a short - lived SocCred revival in the mid-1990s and the Alberta First Party.

Fringe parties like Sheridan's Solidarity outfit aside, the bulk of tactical voting is against the SNP.

If the opposition fails, it could be fringe parties like Ukip, looking ahead to the European elections in May 2014, who reap the biggest reward.

Mohammed refers to the recent by - election in Oldham East — but the result there is a perfect illustration of the way that AV gives the supporters of fringe parties extra chances to have their vote counted, whilst the supporters of mainstream candidates only get their vote counted once.

Voter turnout is extremely low but the fringe parties are more likely to mobilise support.

AV IS UNFAIR: Supporters of fringe parties can end up having their vote counted five or six times — and potentially decide the outcome of the election — while people who backed the mainstream candidates only get one vote.

Even fringe parties like the SNP, which opposed ID cards when Labour tried to introduce them, buckle in power and are currently trying to introduce ID cards through the back door in Scotland.

That of itself is dangerous: both fringe parties are likely to receive considerably more coverage and support than they would were the other mainstream parties besides Labour standing.

Clarke accused Nigel Farage and UKIP of scare tactics on immigration in order to win public support, warning the audience against such fringe parties — «fringe candidates who threaten you with a bogeyman dressed as a Romanian».

Katie Ghose, chair of Yes to Fairer Votes, said in response to Baroness Warsi's claims that AV would benefit fringe parties:

A possible explanation is that Clarke would indeed win more votes from Labour as leader, but they would be partially cancelled out by Tory voters drifting away to UKIP or other fringe parties.

January 9, 2013: Wyoming State Senate President Opens Legislative Session with an Attack on «Fringe Parties» January 8, 2013: Ballot Access Bill Introduced in Wyoming

The effect of an electoral threshold is to deny representation to small parties or to force them into coalitions, with the presumption of rendering the election system more stable by keeping out fringe parties.

If there was any increase in the turnout for the European elections this time it came in the votes for fringe parties.

Electoral reform could make it easier to remove MPs who have transgressed, although its detractors argue that it risks benefiting the BNP, Ukip and other fringe parties.

This helps fringe parties.

If too many people voted for the Liberals or all these fringe parties, you'd have a government which did not have the authority to take tough and necessary decisions all the time.

In 2005 the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats followed the sometime convention of not standing against the Speaker seeking re-election, but Michael Martin was opposed by the SNP as well as several fringe parties.

In close marginals, why should the winner be decided by the second preferences of fringe parties?

The mainstream political parties are hardly distinguishable from each other or from fringe parties when it comes to Green policies.

Following on from my attempt to put myself in Big Oil's shoes, I think I can explain why AGW scepticism is strongly represented in US politics (via the Republican Party), but is not represented in Europe outside of fringe parties (such as UKIP here in Britain, for example).

Both fringe parties have attracted former members of the NDP and Alliance as candidates, so they are not without some credibility as alternatives.

That was more votes than three or four other candidates representing various fringe parties received!

Not exact matches

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

«While it's easy to get distracted by the daily drama of his campaign, let's not forget that Trump has adopted the same extreme policies embraced and advanced by the most fringe in his party.

We steer clear of fringe political parties or minority groups.