Sentences with phrase «long labour voter»

The life - long Labour voter said she could no longer support the party under Jeremy Corbyn despite being a socialist

Not exact matches

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

The people Nuttall is hoping to target — long - term Labour voters who're dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and looking for change — are unlikely to feel particularly fondly about his reheated Thatcherism.

In the long - term, it is possible that the Conservatives will start to appeal to these disaffected Labour voters.

Certainly to me (a floating voter) it looks as if Labour have moved a long way to the right and to the authoritarian over the last 15 years or so, and if they want their old supporters to listen to them, they may have to migrate back a bit to get the conversation started.

Senior figures have blamed Corbyn for failing to mobilise Labour voters to support remaining in the EU, although their grievances are much longer standing.

But as the scandalous move to deny thousands of new voters a ballot in the ongoing leadership election shows, the Labour establishment clearly feels insecure that people are no longer as obedient as they once were.

The report reveals the Labour party is no longer considered the party of «fairness», with only 32 % of southern voters clear with what «Labour stood for these days».

But after Brexit, appearing «prime ministerial» is no longer the deal - breaker it used to be for the kind of angry voter Labour needs to attract if it is to win the next election.

For Cameron that meant talking about the NHS — a risky choice given that Labour traditionally owns the theme and many voters are still angry with hospital closures and the longer waiting lists to see GPs.

For the first time in a generation, Labour is no longer the default choice for low - income voters, alienated from the largely socially conservative workers who once formed the core of its support.

Polling expert Peter Kellner commented «The figures do not support the argument that Labour paid a heavy price this year for neglecting its core voters; rather they tell us something far bigger about long - term trends and what Labour needs to do to regain power».

At the same time, voters in the south no longer regard Labour as the party of fairness.

Our argument is that Labour's move to the «liberal consensus» on the EU and immigration left many of their core voters out in the cold a long time before UKIP were an effective political presence.

While Labour enjoy big leads when it comes to sharing voters» values and being on the side of ordinary people, a majority of the constituency's voters believe the Conservatives are willing to take tough decisions for the long term.

Yet with Labour's socially conservative voters long defected to UKIP, and the Tories adopting Miliband's policies unnoticed, perhaps it is time for a change in tack.

But it also looks like nearly half of Labour's lost voters may no longer vote at all.

The seeds of the SNP surge were laid before 2010, while the alienation of many former Labour voters had long been obvious.

I've previously written about the drift of working class voters to UKIP and argued that, whilst in the short - term it would harm the Tories more than Labour, it was a serious longer - term threat to Labour.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

As long as non-Labour voters are similarly split at the general election, this should be a Labour hold.

All this is a mystery to voters and so long as it remains so, Labour is too easily caricatured as a party which will sign up to any EU agreement, regardless of merit or national interest, to avoid isolation.

While Labour MPs are worrying about how to persuade voters this Budget is in their best interests, Tories are already focusing on how to deal with its decade - long aftermath.

Voters in the south no longer see Labour as the party of fairness and believe they get «little or nothing» back from government from their taxes, a report to be published next month will argue.

The long - running British Election Study, which has followed a 30,000 - strong panel of voters over the past three years, found Labour picked up significant support from remain - minded voters, despite its ambiguous stance on what sort of Brexit deal to pursue.

I asked him how long he thought Labour had to explore the possibilities of hanging on — he said a weekend felt about right, based on the precedent of February 1974 (he didn't mention that most people, including many of Heath's closest allies, felt that weekend was a massive own goal making him look like a bad loser who didn't get the voters» message).

To continue to undermine and attack their partners plays to a demographic which is no longer in the building: The Tory - hating 2010 Lib Dem voters are now ensconced with Labour or the Greens or even UKIP or may have given up voting.

Long - standing Labour voters are walking away from us and he failed to explain how he will persuade them to vote for us again.»

Tackling the BNP is about recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of hard - working families in northern mill - towns, the once - smokey bits of the Midlands, blue collar estates in the Thames estuary and pockets of post-industrial Britain around the country who feel let down by the Establishment and are turning to the only party that talks about their concerns (Incidentally, they aren't necessarily core Labour voters, they are mostly long - standing, fed - up non-voters).

It's time for the Conservatives and Labour to realise that the world has moved on, reform is no longer a taboo subject and voters expect politicians to deliver results based on solid evidence, not overblown rhetoric.

The economic realities of the North of England are nuanced and many voters believe that it no longer makes sense to blame the Conservatives for everything bad, while placing blind faith in Labour.

According to Comres, 56 % of SNP voters in Labour - held seats say their desire for independence is one of two main reasons they are now backing the nationalists, with 35 % saying that «Labour no longer represents people like me» and 30 % saying «the other parties have broken promises on devolution.»

His full findings will be published in a report over the summer, but for now he's clear his party faces a real challenge, «referendum or not», to win round voters who feel Labour no longer understands them.

If the result of AV is a long - term anti-Labour alliance, voters will, in practice, have just two choices of government, one of which — Labour — will always lose.

Although this has led to the inevitable tag «Austerity Ed» and driven trade unionists to fury, it demonstrates a new - found maturity of the Labour Party, which has been a long time coming for confused and disillusioned voters.

If younger voters start to see themselves as Labour voters - if this becomes part of their identity - this may override their generational shift in attitudes against generous welfare systems, which some long - view right - wing strategists have been counting on.

It has long been touted in Labour circles that if the Party subscribes to austerity, wins an election and implements it, it would lose its core voters for a generation if not indefinitely.

Just 27 per cent of voters now regard themselves as long - term Labour supporters.

The need for Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coallabour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.

Is it going to be the long - time Labour voters whose views are generally ignored by the leadership - the Gillian Duffy type of Labour voter?

The long term reason is that between 1997 and 2010, Labour lost five million voters.

Speaking alongside the new MP Liz McInnes, the Labour leader said this disillusionment had led long - time Labour voters to side with Ukip - who came second in the seat, just 600 votes behind Labour.

Although the Labour leadership claimed last week's local and regional elections showed «steady progress» since the general election, the research suggests Mr Corbyn still has a long way to go to win over key groups of voters.

Labour activists / Councillors of my acquaintance have such a long standing and deep seated antipathy for the SNP they find it difficult to believe voters have switched.