Sentences with phrase «not labour supporters»

Some of them were not Labour supporters precisely because the Blair - Brown governments were seen as too business friendly and anti-union.

The poll does exclude the 60 % who said they are not Labour supporters, but many of these may still pay the political levy, will get ballot papers and some of them will vote.

In all we polled 2,609 members of affiliated trade unions, but we have excluded those — the majority — who are not Labour supporters.

Despite all the talk of late surges and delayed ballots, his lead amongst the # 3 «supporters», (many of whom are clearly not Labour supporters at all), is too large to be overhauled.

A significant number of members aren't Labour supporters, but are still expected to affiliate to the party.

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

To declare I am not a Labour supporter and never will be again whichever of your factions is in charge.

Not exact matches

The reaction: Union supporters were dismayed to learn the products on offer are not, as a rule, made by unionized labour.

Like Cameron, Miliband sounded like a lover pleading for his partner not to leave, telling an audience of Labour supporters near Glasgow that he supported Scotland with «head, heart and soul,» and promising change if the union stuck together.

Having been rejected by Labour as its candidate, something he and his supporters regarded as a «political fix», he went back on a pledge not to run as an independent, claiming that he was defending «the principle of London's right to govern itself».

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

Yet Reg Freeson, the Labour MP who was ousted and replaced as MP by Livingstone said he did not consider the ex-London Mayor to be «anti-semitic» and as London's Mayor Livingstone supported Jewish festivals and was never short of Jews amongst his supporters.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

Hi Anthony, Not clear what you mean by «registered supporters» for Labour selections?

But there are various hybrid methods too: for example, there could still be rules about who can stand (eg being a party member for a year or whatever); there could be a nomination process within party structures; and then a vote open to either the general public or to anybody nominating themselves as a supporter I am not sure - in practice - whether there is much difference between an «anybody can come along» and «you have to say «I'm Labour».

His shaky strategic vision remains uncertain and may not show up before polling day at all, hitting voters» confidence in him but also the effectiveness of Labour supporters on the doorstep.

They would just have to sign a declaration that they were a Labour supporter say a week in advance of the selection (but I wouldn't be overly concerned if it was on the day either.)

... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?

In the end it wasn't shy Tories that won it, but unconvinced Labour supporters that lost it.

The Islington North MP retains the support of 41 per cent of Labour supporters, with nine per cent answering don't know.

He admitted that expecting Labour supporters to join the Lib Dems was «a big ask» but added: «As we stand on the edge of those two horrific realities: Brexit and a Tory stranglehold on Britain, the biggest risk is that you do not join us.

He believes the opinion polls are probably over-emphasising the Remain vote and agrees that Labour supporters have not been motivated to vote to stay in the EU.

It has been described by party sources - and by the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign - as the first part of a «Labour fightback» against Brexit, amid concerns that the party's supporters will not vote in sufficient numbers for Remain.

It isn't perfect but at least it would allow Labour supporters to have a vote.

We should not be so naive as to think that every Labour and Lib Dem supporter shares a single set of values.

That would mean not only that fewer constituencies were Labour - winnable, but that there were simply fewer potential Labour supporters registered in 2020.

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.

But if, in its drive to be pro-business, Labour no longer prioritises these issues, it could encourage the feeling that it doesn't care about its traditional supporters.

Labour doesn't think twice about abandoning its core supporters, taking away from the most vulnerable, etc..

Labour MP Chuka Umunna, a supporter of the pro-EU Open Britain campaign, said Fox «needs to understand that he is talking about people not poker chips».

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.

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As a consequence, nearly half of pensioners don't think Labour will ever return to power in Scotland, including one in 10 of its own supporters.

The figures weren't much better among Labour's own supporters: while three quarters felt that Labour would prioritise the NHS in government, only 23 % felt they would prioritise immigration.

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.

Faith comes from the Labour Party's founding principles of Christian socialism, and although many supporters don't have faith themselves we recognise the import influence of Christian social teaching on our politics.

Miliband's supporters claim that one of his achievements has been to heal the divisions of the Blair / Brown years, but Labour in 2010 wasn't a party divided by ideology, but by ego and personality.

He said: «I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60 % of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning.»

And he is not a natural Labour supporter, but he is coming around to us.

The idea that UKIP are picking up old Labour supporters is also not supported by evidence on the social class of their intended voters.

The last Labour leadership election was beset by rows over attempts by Labour officials to strike off registered supporters who did not «share the values and aims of the Labour party».

[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.

Corbyn supporters should assume the gates are shut — but it does not follow that they should look to other parties and leave Corbyn - led Labour to the English.

«While all of the individuals setting up Momentum are members or supporters of the Labour party, the group anticipates that many thousands of people who are not [Labour supporters] will be involved in the wider social movement».

But it's not just former Tory voters who want to give all the parties a kicking; many traditional Labour supporters are also tempted to vote «none of the above».

Labour members now face an unenviable dilemma: do they dethrone the leader they put in place so emphatically (through all sections of the Party, not just the new registered supporters) and thereby accept that the PLP are the real decision - makers?

I think all of the criticisms are hot air and hogwash from Labour supporters jealous they didn't think of it first.

It does not aim simply at getting Labour supporters active.