Sentences with phrase «labour out of power»

Struggling with Labour out of power and a complete lack of access, the Observer's «award - winning chief political commentator» has taken to stealing the work of someone twenty years his junior and attempting to pass it off as his own by tweaking a few words.

Writing in the Sun on Sunday today, Mr Dugher warned that Mr Corbyn's policies risked leaving Labour out of power «for donkey's years».

Damian McBride and his team «played a quite a significant part in putting Labour out of power», said Tony Blair's former director of communications

Let's hope 2011 isn't as good a year for the man who could keep Labour out of power for the next decade.

I doubt Brown will last much longer, I think once the conference is over Brown will know it's time to go, I doubt he would want to stay to the end and be blamed for putting labour out of power for maybe twenty odd years, Thatcher was in power for a long period as people did not trust Labour after two wars, I doubt I'd ever trust Labour again in my life time.

The former shadow chancellor attacked critics of Ed Miliband as the «delusional left», saying they would keep Labour out of power for a decade.

All that matters now is keeping Labour out of power and if that means giving up on Scotland then so be it.

Not exact matches

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Whilst I am in optimistic mood, I suppose I should be grateful that he has not yet got the hang of spitting out the various lurid - coloured medicines I coax down his throat from time to time and that he is still labouring under the illusion that I am some minor deity with the power to make all things right.

Then comes a question from Tory MP Michael Ellis, a member of the home affairs committee, who suggests Hague could use his surveillance powers to find out what the Labour party's position actually is.

Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it»Of course, as Littlejohn rightly points out, after 13 years of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it»of Labour government, «if the public really did have the power to change legislation, the government would pass a law against it».

And now brown and Mandy run back to new labour to try and get the middle class to vote for it, new labour is nothing more then a Thatcherite party, and she lost and a Pray New labour is kicked out of power even if it means it never agains takes power

Crucially, the type of conservatism preached by Glasman, Rutherford, Cruddas and co. is a «radical conservatism», which seeks to resist the disrupting and commodifying tendencies of markets: ``... conservative in valuing relationships, work, family and community... radical in defending the labour interest, and sharing out power, resources and opportunities between members of society.»

This includes reconnecting with an English socialism that grew out of the struggles for land and for the ownership of one's own labour against the forces of the market and of arbitrary power.

I watched Brown to day, he is a very very poor leader end of story, he is dragging this government into a very very long stay out of power, I do think people will see Labour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer lLabour in the future as we see the Lib Dem's OK to sit in opposition sadly a waste of time running the country, what next a New Toy Blair, a new newer labourlabour.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

The disrespectful tone adopted by the Labour team was probably a symptom of a widespread view on the Labour benches that it was not possible for the party to keep the Tories out of power, given they were the largest party in the Commons.

And that doesn't blunt anyone's ability to either disagree or, even, agree with the Labour party in or out of power.

At five minutes to ten o'clock on election night, moments before the exit poll was released, Labour headquarters was preparing to claim power, convinced that against the odds, they could combine with other parties to lock David Cameron out of Downing Street.

Turkey's don't vote fr Christmas so why would Labour MPs vote for a system which would wipe out many of them and permanently force them into a coalition if they want to hold power?

Labour MP David Lammy proposes a shift to taxation of unearned wealth from taxation of income and that we adopt power - sharing and profit - sharing in companies in his 2011 book Out of the Ashes.

The Communication Workers» Union — which has lost its Blairite general secretary to the House of Commons — threw out the Labour into Power document and the civil service union PTC rejected the Maastricht convergence criteria.

Whilst failing to win any outright overall control in any council area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including Glasgow City Council, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time since 1980.

Tony Blair had famously never held a government position before becoming Prime Minister, as the Labour Party had been out of power for the entire duration of his career as an MP.

Labour might have found a way to wriggle out of the straitjacket of spending cuts - but it's going to have to overcome its natural urge to cling to power to achieve it.

Southern Discomfort Again warns that Labour faces a repeat of the unpopularity in the south which kept it out of power in the early 1990s.

Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander's attack on the «ill - judged and unwise» proposal from the European Commission's proposal to increase its annual budget by 4.9 %, which Oborne points out was exactly the «kind of profligacy» cheerfully sanctioned by Labour during its 13 years in power.

The Fabian Society, which co-published the 2006 edition, set out the argument about «renewal» of Labour's thinking after a decade in power requires a further generation of «revisionist» thinking which seeks to emulate Crosland's contribution in the 1950s.

Labour is out of touch with it's core supporters on immigration and will be «out of power for a generation» unless it changes, one of it's MPs claimed last night.

In a new white paper, leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw set out proposals to finish the reform of the Lords that Labour started when it came to power in 1997.

It's what's becoming known as the» 35 % strategy», in which Labour aims to shore up its core vote and attract just a few more from here and there to keep the Tories out of power.

The fact is that from the first day to the last of Labour's years in power immigration was out of control — and the British people won't forget that.

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

Considering the whole raison d'etre of the Labour Party is to be the political representation of the Trade Union Movement [and check out the soaring power of the Trade Unions — behind the scenes — post -1945], I wonder why they didn't call themselves the Political Arm of the Trade Union Movement?!

Ex labour, I'll defend you to Kevin berry who said that you're a Tory, because you say labour is swinging towards the left, I take it you're saying that as you don't want to happen, aTory would like labour to swing towards the left as it'll put us out of power for years, but I'd hardly compare 43 m.p.s voting against a piece of legislation including Nick Brown and Frank Field the equivalent of Hatton

When we were in Power for 18 years Labour in Leeds had 84 seats out of 99, whats going on!

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

We are also entitled to ask where, if Labour is really committed to the new politics, are any of the other measures deemed essential by reformers, such as sorting out the House of Lords, devolving power to local government, a written constititution, more representative MPs in terms of gender and race, and state funding of political parties?

The Labour leader delivered a hard - hitting attack on the prime minister, whom he accused of turning into «David Brent» within two years of taking power, after the government laid out its plans for the year ahead, including reform of the House of Lords.

Holyrood rejected the UK government's EU withdrawal bill by 93 votes to 30 on Tuesday after Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens backed Nicola Sturgeon's decision to oppose proposals on post-Brexit power sharing set out in clause 11 of the bill.

«With ongoing speculation about the May government's commitment to devolution, and Labour likely to win many of the metro mayor contests in May 2017, the party has missed a huge chance to steal a march and set out its own ambitious vision for giving more power to places and people.»

The Tories would argue (in agreement with Polly Toynbee) that proportional representation would deny them their «divine» right to rule alone in future and would keep the party out of power for much longer, with Labour and the Lib Dems more likely to form «progressive» coalitions in office under PR.

Then, Clement Attlee's Labour government reduced the Lords» delaying power to a year in 1949, and, 50 years later, Tony Blair cleared out all but 92 of the hereditary peers.

Labour is now the largest party, but remains out of power because of the solidity of a local coalition between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems which predates the national tie - up between the two parties by years.

Sir John was ousted from power in the massive 1997 landslide that swept Tony Blair and New Labour to power, leaving the Conservatives out of government for 13 years.

Labour party told leader «has courage to fight hostile media», as other senior figures warn it could be out of power for 15 years

We had Plaid sticking up for Labour, once they were out of the coalition Plaid who had been hammered at the election did not understand why, they had been in power after all.

Although Labour carried out big changes in their early days in power - like Bank of England independence - their more difficult reforms on schools and hospitals, for example, were delayed.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

I do not think it will get interesting two years for the Tories to pull the Elephant out of the hat, I suspect Clegg and his party will not get another chance to be in power, will labour win the next election, nope not with Miliband and Balls.