Sentences with phrase «long referendum campaign»

This is what should have been clear all along, the process of consolidation, that the long referendum campaign encouraged, meant that pro-independence voters have rallied behind the SNP.

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There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

This, although it was not spelled out in the short text of the agreement, meant the Scottish government could set the date of the referendum (provided it took place before the end of 2014), extend the franchise to 16 - and -17-year-olds (a long - standing SNP, and indeed Liberal Democrat, pledge), decide the wording of the question (subject to Electoral Commission approval) and stipulate campaign financing (again, subject to EC oversight).

After a bruising EU referendum campaign, and a summer out of the spotlight, former prime minister Sir John Major reflects on his long political career — and insists he has no appetite for making a comeback

Mr. Schwartz was instrumental in the passage of the $ 100 million Suffolk Clean Drinking referendum campaign, as well as the Long Island Maritime Reserve, the fourth such reserve to be created in the State.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

(Putting up a pro-PR amendement is primarily a symbolic political act to keep the issue open; the question for all pro-PR forces will then be what to do about the referendum we are going to have, where most long - standing pro-PR groups campaigners think campaigning for a Yes is important.

All throughout this long, long Scottish independence referendum campaign, nothing has really succeeded in shutting up the incessant trolling of the «cybernats».

Such woolliness is characteristic of the current campaign for a «People's Vote» (we're no longer allowed to call it a second referendum).

Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has switched sides in the EU referendum campaign, saying she can no longer support the Leave campaign's «untrue» claims about NHS spending.

After long being absent, Gordon Brown has suddenly been all over the referendum campaign.

Let's keep up the pressure on Labour and the issue alive in the media by running a nationwide campaign to keep Gordon Brown's promise for a referendum on the Treaty and to kick UKIP into the long grass.

In private the Lib Dems are very gloomy about their prospects of winning a referendum - they think wealthy peers would fund an effective no campaign - and Clegg seems to be conceding that as long as he secures the election of 120 peers in 2015, he could accept a referendum that might stop any further peers being elected.

Many on the Leave side have long calculated that, realistically, the best they could do in this campaign was to come close enough to keep open the prospect of another referendum.

Labour leader to make long - awaited intervention in referendum campaign as Nick Clegg warns argument could already be lost

It is therefore difficult for the Liberal Democrats to avoid a referendum in the long term, and the manifesto pledges to campaign in favour of staying in the EU when the time comes.

As Nick Clegg recently affirmed, «If this referendum campaign, in a slightly gloves - off manner, has dramatised the fact that the Liberal Democrats are the progressive voice of this coalition, then it is not a bad thing in the long run.»

While the pro-independence campaign gained only 45 % at the referendum in September, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has emerged from the long campaign in a formidable position.

Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.

The shock value of the «No» campaign's baby unit posters in the Alternative Vote referendum, or the Leave campaign's Breaking Point» poster of a long queue of migrants show that, under the current free - for - all, campaigners find that courting controversy is worthwhile if there are votes to be won.

Odhra joined MCABSL as volunteer in 2012 to campaign on favor of the referendum that would eliminate the long standing breed specific legislation in Miami Dade.

Guatemala's referendum campaign intensifies By BBN Staff: With only eight more days until Guatemala's national referendum, their Government and people have intensified their campaign encouraging Guatemalan residents to vote in favor of taking the long standing dispute to the International Court of Justice (ICJ)-LSB-...]

Rod MacLeod, partner at Tods Murray, says: «Whether we like it or not, the legacy of the independence referendum will cast a long shadow on the constitutional and economic future of the UK for some time to come, as promises made in the final weeks of the campaign on enhanced devolved powers for Scotland covering finance, welfare and taxation, now have to be delivered.