Sentences with phrase «local conservative force»

Not exact matches

I recall the 1995 local elections, in which the Conservative Party lost over 2000 seats to Labour and the Lib - Dems, and were nearly forced to third place.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.

Commenting on the Conservative Party's proposals to force local authorities to hold a referendum each time they increase council tax by more than a central government controlled level, Director of Unlock Democracy, Peter Facey said:

«I'm so glad they've chosen to carry on and to join us in the Conservative Party, because they could so easily have let the hard - left in the Labour Party force them out altogether,» Bradley told his local paper.

A dozen police forces have passed files to the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that up to 20 Conservative MPs broke local spending limits at the last general election.

In addition, a number of local TEA Party organizations have joined forces with Lalor's growing grassroots campaign of small business owners, independents, conservatives and reformers.

A Marine's Story (Unrated) «Don't ask - don't tell» drama based on actual events in the life of a returning Iraq War veteran (Dreya Weber) who encounters intolerance in her conservative hometown when the local yokels learn that she was forced to retire from the military for same - sex conduct unbecoming an officer.

By forcing the local authorities out of mainstream education, it would also finally unpick the local authority system of schools put in place in England by Arthur Balfour's Conservative government in 1902.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

Right now, Republican hypocrisy is becoming a glaring limitation as a Republican dominated House is forced to square its votes against conservative drives of wanting less bureaucracy and more local control.