Sentences with phrase «narrow party political»

By allowing the channels of racism (including antisemitism) to mobilise discontent for narrow party political purposes, the Labour Party follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itself.

The Labour leader insisted he would not «allow this moment to be used for narrow party political advantage».

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

It is therefore disappointing that Cheryl Gillan should choose to focus her efforts on imposing constitutional change especially when the motivation for that change appears to be narrow party political interest.

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

Not exact matches

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

And furthermore, lumping all Christians into some political party is narrow - minded.

But, with Pandora's box having been opened for narrow - minded party political interests, the question now has to be how can our political representatives extricate themselves from the mess they created with at least a modicum of dignity?

good coffee, regionalist political party recently in power... I've got it narrowed down to one of three countries.

But in their self - imposed season of anomie, Afenifere committed the ultimate ideological apostasy, by their own Awoist doctrine: pushed the wrong cause, backed the wrong horse, kept the wrong company, and coalesced behind the wrong person, as arrowhead to Aso Rock, in Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, ruthless political hustler and survivalist, who just defected to the wide - and - merry Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the supposedly straight - and - narrow Labour Party (LP).

A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps by compromising some of its ideological goals.

Labour's national executive committee will meet for the first time since the election in the next fortnight and one source close to the NEC said they believed Lavery's comments would be a controversial topic of discussion — particularly on narrowing the spectrum of political views in the party.

Cameron has faced criticisms from within the Tory party for listening to advice from too narrow a group within the heart of government and is now believed to be chasing former political strategist Lynton Crosby, the Times newspaper reported.

I think the question is meaningless because there is no standard of how «wide» or «narrow» the base of a political party must be, a practical guide to tell us (in the ideological dimension) what a «political party» is and what a «coalition» is.

It lies in the funding of political parties and elections, extraordinarily narrow media ownership, and the route by which many make it into our unelected House of Lords.

Rather, DeFrancisco and other Republicans say the mix of Valesky's political moves, the district's voter enrollment and past campaign wins have made the party look elsewhere to keep its narrow majority in the Senate in this fall's elections.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins said «Teachout's entrance into the Democratic Party primary should be used to broaden rather than narrow the political debate in New York.»

Welsh Liberal Democrats are the only party to consistently work to achieve results and put narrow party - political interest aside, their leader Kirsty Williams has said today on the eve of the Assembly election.

The shadow chancellor will acknowledge the need for reform of the EU but will hit out at David Cameron's policy of offering an in / out referendum, warning the Tories are «flirting with exit» for narrow political party interests.

As a member of the narrow Democratic majority, Mr. Monserrate used the threat that he would switch political allegiances to gain considerable leverage within his party.

George Miller (CA), ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, said that «the distance is narrow» between the parties on how best to improve ESEA and attributed the current stalemate to an inability to compromise in the current political environment, despite new concerns that a lack of action could imperil national security (see report roundup below).

Because the battleground is so narrow, we have ended up with leaders like Blair and Cameron, who occupy almost identical political positions despite leading parties where the members are a long way (respectively) to the left and right of them and their governments.

For Auld LJ, there were two «knock - out» arguments against a narrowing of the prohibition: - the impossibility of identifying a boundary between party political matters and other matters of public importance and controversy; and - he contended, it would not have been «a principled or logical distinction to limit the prohibition to... election periods,» if airtime could be bought outside them (para 80).