Sentences with phrase «leave our voting system»

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I think having unbalanced trade leaves room for the common man to blame his ills on the system and decide to vote for people who will fix it.

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) will be holding its sixth policy meeting of 2017 from September 19 - 20, after the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to leave its key interest rate unchanged in July.

«Also under our system, if you are leaving office it's because you've failed — either you've voted out or your party has kicked you out.

If we vote leave we can take back control of our borders, huge sums of money... and of our whole lawmaking system, the democracy that is the foundation of our prosperity.

Lib Dems attack «potty» system that could leave Labour with fewest votes but most seats, and say reform is their priority

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

His past role as head of policy for a drugs company and his vote to renew nuclear weapons system Trident will not play well with left - wingers.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

It was billed as «The Democratic Renewal Rally», and jointly put on by — from right to left — Progress, the Fabian Society and Compass, and the Vote For A Change campaign, currently doing their best to make headway on getting the UK a more proportional voting system.

«There is an amendment to the Electoral Act that President Jonathan signed a few days before he left office which legitimize the use of the card reader and other electronic systems for voting.

The effect of a system based on plurality voting is that the larger parties, and parties with geographically concentrated support, gain a disproportionately large share of seats, while smaller parties with more evenly distributed support are left with a disproportionately small share.

Two more SolarCity directors with ties to Tesla Motors and its CEO Elon Musk are recusing themselves from making decisions about the electric vehicle maker's bid to acquire the solar energy systems installer, leaving just three to vote.

Grisanti also received some pressure from the left yesterday, compliments of campaign finance reform advocates who were angry he joined his fellow Republicans in voting down a hostile amendment that would have established a publicly financed system.

In December 2006 the government published a defence white paper advocating Trident replacement and on March 14th 2007 parliament voted by 409 votes to 161 in favour of authorising the government to take steps to maintain Trident nuclear weapons system after the Vanguard - class submarines leave service in the mid-2020s.

The scale of the left wing MP's victory even surpasses that of Tony Blair's 57 per cent of all votes cast — albeit under a different electoral system.

If AV falls, the Coalition looks to tumble with it, since the Liberal Democrats will surely find a way of leaving the Government (and the Tories - with their detestable first - past - the - post voting system).

«The best way to stop big businesses from avoiding tax is to Vote Leave so we can take back control and reintroduce a fair system that works for the British taxpayer not big business.»

Meanwhile, Labour MPs — only fourteen of whom are thought to have voted for him — must yearn for the Australian system, under which the Liberal Party this week entered a room with one leader and left it with another.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

GOP senators have proven more disciplined, and Cuomo has cut deals with them — pushed by the IDC, and often with Democratic votes — to pass six timely budgets and major progressive bills like minimum wage hikes, a system of paid family leave, legalization of same - sex marriage and strict gun controls.

An evening vote on a bill to establish a single - payer healthcare system dragged on when a number of supporters who had left for dinner needed to be brought back to the chamber before it could receive a majority.

It's the latest chapter in Cornwall's maligned postal voting system following the revelation last month that several candidates were left off the ballot paper, as reported by politics.co.uk.

Although the Liberal Democrat manifesto refers to STV as their «preferred» solution, their commitment is only to «a fair, more proportional voting system» and leaves the possibility of accepting AV + open.

The reasons that Labour will have a chance in 2015 are Ed Miliband's sensible leadership, left - wing Lib Dem voters moving to Labour, the voting system, a split right - wing vote and the coalition's many mistakes on the economy.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the vote by the three teacher members of the New York City Teachers» Retirement System to sell the $ 13.5 million pension fund holdings in publicly traded securities of gun and ammunition manufacturers as «the right thing to do» in the wake of the December school shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Conn..

When JC becomes Leader I'd like him to take the revolutionary step of scrapping the whipping system and leave it to MPs consciences to Vote Aye or Nay or Abstain.

A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worVote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worvote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.

Clinton, meanwhile stands to benefit from New York's closed primary system which restricts voting to enrolled party members; Sanders draws much of his support from independent voters who will be left out of Tuesday's polling.

In the last Parliament the first of a series of Commons votes about what to do with the House of Lords asked whether we should continue with a bicameral Parliament (two Houses) or go for a uni-Cameral system, leaving just the House of Commons.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - One year after Nikolai Vitti left Jacksonville to take over Detroit's public school system, the Duval County School Board voted to offer Dr. Diana Greene, current superintendent of Florida's Manatee County School District, the job as Jacksonville's top educator.

It works like a Youtube comment system where you can leave your impressions of the book and people can vote up or vote down them.

Writing in the Guardian recently, the social critic George Monbiot commented, «So I don't blame people for giving up on politics... When a state - corporate nexus of power has bypassed democracy and made a mockery of the voting process, when an unreformed political system ensures that parties can be bought and sold, when politicians [of the main parties] stand and watch as public services are divvied up by a grubby cabal of privateers, what is left of this system that inspires us to participate?»

Vote Leave's powerful «Voter Intention Collection System» (Vics) software was named after her.

«A number of witnesses, including Shahmir Sanni, one of the Vote Leave volunteers, have now come forward with their accounts and produced emails, invoices, photographs and evidence from the internal systems of Vote Leave and BeLeave,» she said.