Sentences with phrase «more labour supporters»

It would have been interesting to hear from more Labour supporters since the election on what they thought went wrong (apart from not winning enough votes), but I assume a lot of them are not in the mood for visiting sites like this at the moment.

What's more the Labour supporters that I know are literally sitting back and waiting for the Blair / Brown era to die a death.

Perhaps we'll see a lot more Labour supporters on the site - complaining about the govt and a lot less Tories supporters, who are now relieved that their party is in power.

At a time when Jeremy Corbyn appears to be alienating more Labour supporters than he is winning over, this has looked like the most viable strategy for a party that needs to reinvent itself after securing its headline goal.

Ed Miliband is under increasing pressure to back an in / out referendum on Britain's EU membership, after a survey showed more Labour supporters are in favour of a vote on Europe than against it.

Not exact matches

The four will take part yet more hustings, before facing a vote among Labour members and supporters.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

More importantly, a CLP needs to DO it (i.e. have a closed primary open to declared Labour supporters.)

However, we could adopt a closed primary system where registered Labour supporters (of which there are a considerable number in each constituency - 1000 or more in many cases) could take part.

But Graham is even more fascinated by the Labour leader's most fervent supporters and the way that the party appears to have transformed since Corbyn arrived on the scene.

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

But more than that, Labour supporters need to take that cause back into their own party.

OK, that may be a slighly unrealistic wish but I think there are more things that should unite Labour and LibDem supporters than divide them, even if not all of them see it like that (it always amazes me how much some Labour supporters despise the LibDems, I don't know to what extent the feeling is reciprocated).

He can either make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or he can fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

I argued here that Conservative and Lib Dem supporters in Scotland probably would not often vote tactically for Labour because they are not much more fond of Labour than they are of the SNP.

Rebranding Labour may be a more difficult process than its supporters imagine right now but we know change is key to any future election success.

He argues that to win the next election, Ed Miliband needs to make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

Labour leaders since Attlee had long since ceased to take Clause IV seriously: they just thought abolition would generate more trouble among Labour supporters than the benefits to be gained at electioins since many in the electorate didn't know what Clause IV was until reminded.

The switch appears to be largely due to Labour supporters worried about the prospect of five more years of Conservative rule.

[1] More generally, the key voters are Labour supporters who are voting in the local / devolved parliament elections and who aren't interested in electoral reform.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

20th July 2016, Huffington Post: More than 180,000 sign up as «Registered Supporters» to vote in Labour leadership election

In fact, a quarter of Labour voters (and more than half of UKIP supporters) say either that they are satisfied with Cameron or that they prefer him to the alternative.

Labour supporters still more left wing than party

In a close three - way race, for example, a tactical Labour supporter may be more confident that their candidate can beat the Liberal Democrat than the Conservative candidate, and therefore vote for the Liberal Democrat to ensure he or she makes it into the final round.

On the other hand, enthusiastic Conservatives are having none of it — to them Labour is far more left - wing than its own enthusiastic supporters think.

Indeed, Tories think Labour (which they place at 1.98) is more left - wing than those Labour supporters think the Conservative Party is right - wing; they even see Labour as more left - wing than the Greens — perhaps not unreasonably given where our «objective» score places them.

She began her campaign by winning gushing plaudits from right - wing papers and is set to finish it with the support of little more than one in ten Labour supporters.

Pollsters say Labour supporters need to back AV by more than two to one if the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is to emerge on top.

It is a matter of established fact that Tony Blair created more life peers than any of his predecessors: the government maintained, however, that the predominance of Labour supporters among their numbers was justified in balancing out the historic Conservative dominance in the Upper House.

Smith is reported to have the support of about 90 Labour MPs and MEPs, which his supporters believe is about 35 more than Eagle.

And it's worth noting that Ukip supporters are only slightly less willing than Labour or Tory voters to welcome more immigrants:

It emerged last night that more than 183,000 people had paid # 25 to sign up as registered supporters of the Labour party and vote between Mr Smith and Mr Corbyn.

Now, as a result of Labour's leadership election, we are in a position that other parties will eye enviously — more than 550,000 people will be able to help to choose our new leadership team, of which 120,000 are new supporters.

I am not a Labour supporter, but it might improve politics if more people take take this on board.

But there are growing signs that Miliband has stepped back from plans to dilute the size of the union vote at party conference, and is instead focusing on a series of reforms designed to make local parties more dynamic, and open up the party to a wider group of Labour supporters.

Therefore while Labour could support a Lib Dem led government as the change its supporters prefer, the Lib Dems could not back a Labour government to continue in office just because together they have more MPs.

Conservative supporters were consistently more satisfied with David Cameron (averaging 79 per cent satisfied) than Labour supporters were with Ed Miliband (51 per cent) and (after Sept 2015) with Jeremy Corbyn (54 per cent).

Both Labour and Tower Hamlets First (Rahman's slate) backed secular Muslim candidates as well as candidates whose base of support is closely associated with particular mosques — though Rahman's supporters appear «guilty» of being far more successful at winning support through those mosques.

And Survation's work tells us that until or unless UKIP's vote rises above 16 per cent, the party draws more from Conservative supporters than Labour ones.

Going forward I believe that there is huge potential for UKIP to win over many more traditional Labour supporters who have been left behind by the modern day Labour Party.

Labour and Lib Dem supporters who voted leave were more likely to have decided late than Conservative leavers.

Jeremy Corbyn speaks for the fifty percent of Labour party members and supporters who want an isolationist foreign policy, want Trident scrapped, believe in printing and spending more money, and believe in demonizing the business community.

What is more, democratically speaking why should these people have their votes counted again and again while Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters only get their vote counted once?

The next election will see a big turnout by Labour and Conservative supporters and where Liberal Democrat MP's do survive it will be solely due to tactical voting, UKIP could even make a breakthrough in a couple of seats but I think Labour will still win, so it will be more strongly toward a 2 party system but with the strongest 4th party performance in UK history.

Remembering that the # 3 supporters idea was from the New Labour wing of the party, they must have thought there was there was more public support for them outside of the current membership.

They are of a higher social class than Tory and Labour supporters, with more ABs and fewer DEs.

It is far too easy for Labour supporters to rant on about the plots of the Tory press; we should stand back and soberly reflect that — at this time — so many see May as more effective political leader than Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn must do more to win back traditional Labour voters who have switched to Ukip and the SNP, according to one of his key supporters.