Sentences with phrase «more libdems»
Ed Miliband argues that his newly - discovered support for a graduate tax, opposition to ID cards and his previously secret conclusion that the Iraq war was a «profound mistake» make him the ideal person to attract even more LibDem supporters away from the Coalition (YouGov again had Clegg's party at 12 % overnight).
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/ Not exact matches
, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.
Uncle Petie I hope LibDems (especially those with an instinct for either social democratic or LibDem traditions) would not take the view that «more egalitarian reformed (liberal) market outcomes» will make redistribution unnecessary.
On 1, I have no doubt 75 % + or more of LibDems prefer a Labour coalition if all other things were equal.
If that is right - others will have read the reports more closely, so am open to correction on this - then plaudits to the HIMC but also the question of why parliamentary scrutiny should fall quite far short of what we might reasonably expect, (and despite some rather effective evidence gathering particularly by the LibDem parliamentarians).
PS, I think the answer to «Why aren't there be more Tories around the LibDem fringe?»
I can't see the Libdem grassroots taking too nicely to the idea to be honest, unless New Labour drop a lot more civil liberties projects and simplify the notoriously bad tax system.
In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.
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).
@ 12 Bob B «But there is even more about the local LibDems» Do nt be a tease Bob, what could possibly be worse then cigarette running or invoking an imaginary sky god?
The LibDems and SNP, who are both more anti-Brexit than Labour, would demand key concessions from Corbyn on EU membership as conditions for power - sharing.
LibDems could claim they got more out of a Coalition than supply or confidence, in the Agreement itself (when they held a veto).
The LibDem proposal may be more intuitively electorally appealing than spending a much smaller amount on current tax credits for greater impact.
The economy may have played stronger as an argument in the old Conservative heartlands, and some of the LibDem ones, where the recovery is more apparent and deprivation less so.
This was a policy more progressive than Labour's own points - based system, which may not have been known or understood by much of the electorate, whereas the LibDem's policy was widely known.
Brian Binley urged Cameron to rethink policies that are too LibDem - friendly while Jackie Doyle - Price said that some of UKIP's messages were more appealing to Tory voters than Cameron's policies.
That decision created even more problems for the LibDems in Scotland than in England.
The seat is held by LibDem Daniel Rogerson with a notional majority of more than 5000 votes due to boundary changes.
Welsh Conservatives showed at the recent Assembly elections that we can challenge the LibDems in what is perceived to be their territory and win more votes than them.
The LibDems remain subdued below 20 % but there are few signs that the Conservatives are poised to win back many of the thirty and more seats lost to the LibDems at recent elections.
That is why more voters unhappy with Labour are now voting Tory rather than LibDem.
This is but reason that makes the LibDem position so bizarre - there are loads more.
These shadow ministers believe that - contrary to Labour's «under - delivery» to the LibDems - the Conservatives should deliver more in practical co-operation in government than they promise in opposition.»
LibDem voters are even more pro-EU (79 - 21), while on the other hand of the spectrum, UKIP voters are perfectly aligned with their party's position (97 % support Leave).
If Ed Miliband's party is more popular than Labour was at the last election — as, with 2 million LibDem voters having switched to Labour, it undoubtedly is — it is difficult to see how Cameron's gamble could pay off.
I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.
I am more worried about east Anglia, where we have lost council seats to the LibDems and even when we retained those seats, there has been large swings away from us to LibDems.
David Laws is a known orange booker in the libdems, and some in that party regard them more as «conservatives» than Liberals!
Sunder also notes that the anti-politicians message meant some politicians wouldn't promote Yes leaflets: «There were examples of LibDem MPs who were not prepared to distribute national Yes literature, promoting messages to their own constituents that they needed a kick up the backside, though Labour reaction was probably considerably more hostile still.
The Scottish LibDems were correctly seen as more innovative than their partners — not difficult when that was Scottish Labour.
I thought John Denham's account a year ago very plausible - on the Fabian panel you spoke on - that Labour wasn't in a position to make a deal, but that the LibDem leadership anyway thought the Con - LD deal more legitimate, given the result, though saw the advantages of negotiation, such as getting us this referendum opportunity.
Being in uneasy alliance if a Huhne - Cable - Farron axis assert more control over LibDem policy may get trickier, but Vince doesn't hate the Prime Minister anything like as viscerally as some of the 1922.
Opponents of Lib - Con deal - making often complain that it can make LibDems appear more reasonable to voters and therefore undermine Tory campaigning in Lib - Con marginals.
You claim: «It's also highly inconsistent to tell me all voters start with a blank slate, but then to insist that LibDems are more likely to second preference Labour.»
That is why the Libdems are being relentlessly squeezed - as the Conservatives become more and more electable, Libdems are irrelevant to the real political battle.
Bristol South is Labour seat with a projected majority of 11,142 over the LibDems and approximately 1,200 more over the Conservatives.
Vince Cable rightly castigates top pay excesses — and to give him credit, no - one else in this government of millionaires is doing so — but the solutions he put forward yesterday to the LibDem conference are worth little more than a bucket of warm spit.
Prior to the 2010 general election, the LibDems offered a programme more suited to the medium and long range interests of capital.
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 coalition.
The EU scepticism of Social Democrats of Tom Harris, David Owen, have known not to merge with the Libdems, having not voted for Labours manifesto to leave the EU in 1983, finding they have more in Common with Centrist Brexit Labour MPs such as John Cryer, just as EU sceptic Labour MPs Gisela Staurt and Kate Hoey have common ground with those M.P.s loyal to the party, Angela Eagle, Andy Burnham and Louisiana Berger.
Stay in there while Labour loses votes & seats & The Libdems rebuild, waste more time.
I am not calling for a Labour split, it makes more sense for Labour Centrists to join The Libdems where you would be welcome but chances of a split succeeding are much better now than in the 1980s.
Few people have an opinion of Nick Clegg but 19 % say he makes them more likely to vote LibDem, 6 % say less likely.
I would then Classify the views of Cooper to be much more in line with the «Socially Liberal, pro EU» Labour member / supporter who's views don't currently fit in with the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but more with the «Core vote, possible Libdem» voter who could be attracted to a new centre party.
One would have thought that, with the LibDems trailing at 10 % in the polls and likely to end up after the next election with little more than 10 MPs, and with Labour leading the Tories by a solid 10 % in the polls, we should be going flat - out for an outright Labour victory.
Labour didn't hold the majority of its 2010 vote, we lost at least 1.5 m of it, to with stories or Ukip, maybe more, and yes we did get back ex libDem votes, all those Billybragg types at the guardian who voted libDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibDem votes, all those Billybragg types at the guardian who voted libDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibDem last time, to see their party in coalition with the Tories, So saying that labour never lost votes to Ukip is daft, we did and the libdem vote only stabilizlibdem vote only stabilized it,
Less than half the Ukip vote came from the Tories if it did, then, the Tories getting more votes than last time, couldn't have got all their increased votes ex libdems
According to Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home, the poll also shows that «24 % told GfK NOP that they would prefer Charles Kennedy to return as leader and slightly more (7 %) preferred LibDem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg to the embattled Sir Menzies (6 %)», though I'm not sure what sort of question or structure this was in response to.