Sentences with phrase «not vote in its leadership election»

A left - wing comedian has said he was told by the Labour party that he could not vote in its leadership election.

Left - wing comedian Jeremy Hardy says he has been told by the Labour party that he can not vote in its leadership election.

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While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).

Despite a vote of no confidence, Corbyn has insisted he won't resign, citing the large mandate he won in the 2015 leadership election, when he finished 40 percentage points ahead of his nearest challenger in a vote of party members.

Many of that large majority will not vote and of those who do, it is worth noting that in the last two leadership elections they have voted for candidates not supported by the majority of the PLP.

Those polls suggested that almost two - thirds of members voting in the leadership contest had joined the Labour Party before, not after, the 2015 general election.

On the payment of a small registration fee (the level of which has not yet been decided), they too could vote in leadership elections.

There are also rumours critics are prepared to trigger a no - confidence vote in Cameron's leadership if the Tories» poll rating does not improve by summer 2014 — a year before the general election.

Even on the old system, 60 % of Unite members did not vote for me in the leadership election, although they were recommended to do so.

Affiliated supporters will be able to vote in leadership elections and in the London mayoral primary next summer, but not in parliamentary selection contests.

If Serwotka is not to be seen as hypocritical, I challenge him to introduce a rule change which will enable supporters to vote in the leadership election of the PCS by paying # 3 and stating they support the aims and objectives of the trade union movement.

They don't want me to vote in the leadership election and I have no idea why.

Today, however, such a system is not commonly practiced and most parliamentary system parties» rules provide for a leadership election in which the general membership of the party is permitted to vote at some point in the process (either directly for the new leader or for delegates who then elect the new leader in a convention), though in many cases the party's legislators are allowed to exercise a disproportionate influence in the final vote.

Not only will you be able to vote in the upcoming leadership election, but you can have a say in forming our policy platform at party conferences as well as choosing local candidates.

I don't object to having some time limit on joining to vote in the leadership election but 1) that should be made known when people join and 2) six months is far too long — it should be no more than one or two.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

We didn't see this coming until it became clear that (a) the thousands of new «# 3 members» who joined to vote in the Labour leadership election were nearly all Corbynistas, (b) Jeremy was playing to packed houses of adoring crowds everywhere he went to campaign and (c) his rivals were fighting lacklustre campaigns in comparison.

Around 70,000 people who voted in the leadership election did NOT vote Labour in May's general election.

The Liberal Democrats may not have succeeded in «decapitating» key members of the Tory leadership at the last election (Charles Kennedy had hoped to oust David Davis, Michael Howard and Theresa May) but the Conservatives, says The Telegraph's Andrew Pierce, are hopeful that tactical voting and some extra resources could defeat six of Labour's leading faces:

«Labour is to look at broadening its electoral base by offering the chance for Labour sympathisers, and not just members or union levy payers, to be given a vote in the Labour leadership election.

However «if the Leader were to lose such a vote (again, on a simple majority basis) they must resign, and they may not stand in the leadership election which is then triggered (Rule 7)».

I also didn't vote for Nick Clegg in the leadership election, gave him the benefit of the doubt but his bullish behaviour in not stepping down after a series of dire election results and sanctioning orange bookers libertarianism means to me he must go and asap.

The first thing to remember is that the relatively few people eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election — 400,000 odd until a few weeks ago, now more like 600,000 — are not remotely representative of the rest of the country.

Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).

John Rees, from Stop The War, told Sky News today: «I would be surprised if Labour party members didn't want to see a leadership that more fundamentally agreed with the leading member that they overwhelmingly voted for in the leadership election.»

The NEC elections don't represent leadership, look at the Centre right on the NEC Nominations, Akehurst, reeves Wheeler, they backed Ed miliband, was publicly against Iraq, in 2010 ′ the Lefts NEC man Ken Livingstone, voted for Ed balls for leader, who was pro Iraq

She's a national officer for trade union Prospect and voted for Ed Balls in the leadership election, but quoted support from other leadership candidates (not including Dianne Abbott).

In another mooted change, registered supporters - those who have registered their support but are not full party members - would be entitled to vote in leadership and mayoral elections «for a small fee»In another mooted change, registered supporters - those who have registered their support but are not full party members - would be entitled to vote in leadership and mayoral elections «for a small fee»in leadership and mayoral elections «for a small fee».

Ed Balls will not be happy to hear that I practised what I preached in the leadership election by using only a single one of my many votes.

The BBC's Iain Watson said the unions were on the verge of agreeing that the electoral college should be abolished - not for conference votes, just for the leadership election - so all members, including the «opted - in», union - affiliated members, would get one vote each.

In the leadership election, soft left votes went to the hard left candidate precisely because they did not have a candidate, though I myself, firmly soft left, voted for Burnham and Cooper as unity candidates.

Don't let history repeat itself in 2015 — stay tuned next week as Capitol Connection explores what's at stake during the upcoming midterm election, and the importance of your vote in determining the membership and leadership of the 114th Congress.