Sentences with phrase «of unelectable»

In a spirit of non-partisanship I will point out that the Tories have had their share of unelectable leaders such as IDS and Howard.

Well that's pretty much what all the main political parties are doing in the run - up to the general election — thanks to the rise of unelectable and unaccountable think - tanks.

Just watch this all explode in the republicans» faces for throwing a bunch of unelectable candidates into the mess too early.

Not exact matches

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, a wealthy New Yorker, broke with the Republican «establishment» which he criticized for being in the pocket of big business, and formed the «Bull Moose» Party (which split the vote and paved the way for an otherwise unelectable Woodrow Wilson).

Rob Boston, of Americans United, tells us that five members of our founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine — were so religiously unorthodox as to be unelectable today.

Nearly half of evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.

So, will the austerity programme of the Cameron Government make the Tories unelectable for a generation?

Corbyn's opponents hoped his history on the hard left of British politics would convince Labour members that he would be unelectable as prime minister.

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

The Dems» fractious online army attempted to pull the party to the unelectable margins of political debate.

Mr Blanchflower has told the Guardian that Jeremy Corbyn is «absolutely, completely unelectable» and that Mr Smith gives Labour the best chance of forming a strong opposition at a time of potential economic turbulence.

The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) has sought to downplay the influence of Momentum, portraying it as a collection of fringe radicals who will make the party unelectable to the more mainstream voter.

Jones resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, along with dozens of her colleagues, in June 2016 and, in calling Corbyn «unelectable», also urged him to resign as Labour leader.

Still waiting for a response to the points made against Corbyn, essentially that it doesn't help those in need of a Labour government to select an unelectable leader.

Bill Clinton wins saying to the left of the party, «You are unelectable.»

«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price of our failure is paid by the working people of this country and their families who do not have a government to stand up for them.

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

All that has happened is that the hapless Owen Smith's pathetic «I'm a Bevanite» Summer long Leadership challenge will now be simply dismissed by the Right as «just part of an endless process of sabotage and disruption, to make a Left oriented Labour Party unelectable».

Few of these particularly virulent critics seem interested in understanding members» reasons for selecting an outsider backbencher they've repeatedly been told is entirely unelectable.

Lizzy Salander, the unelectable Corbyn won his seat in 1983 — on the back of Labour's «longest suicide note in history».

Sekula Gibbs was widely regarded as unelectable by Republicans due to her brief but tempestuous time in office following the resignation of former congressman Tom DeLay (R).

I'd be utterly ashamed of simply asserting that a party that was IN POWER just six years ago is now unelectable, and if I actually believed it (as you say you do) I'd be even more embarrassed of supporting them.

He's more unelectable than Neil Kinnock was; and Kinnock had considerable powers of oratory, and didn't lack political courage.»

This is the only way to stop Labour from becoming unelectable and at the same time show the puplic another side of Labour showcasing the next generation of Labour leaders.

The person dismissed as «unelectable» and «not prime ministerial material» somehow finds himself in charge of the party out in front, according to YouGov polling.

There are those who say they would vote for Jeremy but think that he would be unelectable, forgetting of course that people have left the party and others did not vote because New Labour are no longer relevant.

Many in the PLP genuinely believe Labour will be unelectable unless it pledges cuts in benefits, or curbs on immigration, and are now struggling to resolve the contradiction of convincing the membership to want the same things that they think the electorate wants.

All those Tories who have paid their # 3 in the hope of making Labour unelectable for a generation by voting in Corbyn as leader

By taking the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable as a given, without needing to interrogate it, commentators are then free to debate questions in terms of «Will this unelectable man win the leadership election?»

new labour have bought the labour party to the brink of extinction in only twenty shorty years and made it practically unelectable.

In the Times a few days ago, Adam Boulton speculated «If the Tory civil war rages on, Jeremy Corbyn may not be so unelectable after all, especially if he can forge some kind of red - tartan coalition».

Sheepish, charming, boyish, scary, this unelectable lawmaker is a piece of work, and watching other characters respond to him, particularly those in the black community, gives the film a very amusing edge.

John Hewson's public denunciation of Peter Costello ««Lazy, disloyal, no balls, unelectable»» is one of the more effective examples of the genre I've seen *.