Sentences with phrase «on a council estate»

I was born on a council estate and it reflects that council estate.

«PR is not the answer to everything, but we often talk as if it were... I have been trying to encourage our colleagues to think about how we make what John Stuart Mill had to say about civil liberties important to a single mother living on a council estate in Manchester.»

The early chapters, which chart Moran's early years as the oldest of eight children living on a council estate in Wolverhampton (not the most glamorous part of England, to put it mildly) are especially gripping — that «ruthless honesty» extends to puberty's most awkward moments, and Moran's early attempts to figure out what being a woman means.

Reaching people on council estates is something that 37 - year - old vicar Cris Rogers is now well experienced at doing.

The old core of Labour support has been squeezed by the Con - Lib Dem contest, with the old areas of Labour strength on the council estates now bases of Lib Dem support.

I'm with Owen on the probably certainty that David Cameron views on those who live on council estates with all the benign tolerance of Bill Cash at a camembert convention, but whatever you think about Duncan Smith's policies, he is not — the Tories are not — «evil».

Raised on a council estate by a single mother, he has a back story to which many Tory MPs are attracted.

I grew up in a Baptist church on a council estate in Hartlepool.

The people who talk about Britain no longer having a sense of community have clearly never spent much time on a council estate.

The son of Pakistani immigrants who was brought up on a council estate also stated: «I'm only here today because of the opportunities and helping hand that our city gave to me and my family.

Khan wrote in the Mirror this year of the «real sense» of community on his council estate.

«I'm a fighter, someone who is ready to work their socks off» says Mr Khan, who grew up as the son of a bus driver on a council estate in the same Tooting constituency where he has served as MP since 2005.

@little angussie — people who think Labour wants to keep people dependent on welfare have never tried to get out the vote on a council estate.

In their maiden speeches, Jackie Doyle - Price and Stuart Andrew explain how growing up on council estates informed their political outllook

Labour today accused the Government of «social cleansing» over its plans to demolish high rise towers on council estates.

In a bid to make it easier for the long - term unemployed to find work, Ms Flint proposed opening job centres on council estates, arguing this made more sense than forcing people to travel «miles» to access services.

Twitter is awfully quiet without Nadine Dorries who is currently sans Blackberry, filming a documentary on a council estate for a week.

Residents groups on council estates will be able to issue anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) under the latest plan from the government's «respect» agenda.

Lib Dem liftDuring one especially hard push on the campaign trail, four Lib Dem activists and I were knocking on doors on a council estate in Bermondsey.

«I was a postman bringing up three kids on a council estate in 1975,» said Johnson.

Tellingly, race relations here caused problems for Labour in the last election too, when it was claimed a raid on 25 suspected illegal immigrants on a council estate inundated by Africans had been postponed to avoid embarrassing Tony Blair.

Thornberry may have been brought up on in penury on a council estate, but that can not excuse her crass insensitivity, political stupidity and arrogant, patronising contempt for the working class.

A minor party, the Independent Working Class Association, has some strength on the council estates here and returns several councillors, however they have a negligible effect at the last election.

As I have said to you before Maxim a lot of it might but not all the UKIP vote is Tory friendly, a very significant proportion are ex Lab voters on council estates or WWC former industrial areas who are averse to the Tories for a plethora of reasons.

Colleagues today praised Stephen Crabb, who was raised by an abused single mum on a council estate, as he replaced Iain Duncan Smith as Work and Pensions Secretary.

Director: Matthew Vaughn Cast: Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Sophie Cookson, Michael Caine, Sofia Boutella, Mark Hamill, Jack Davenport and Samuel L. Jackson Plot: When a Kingsman agent is killed on a mission, Harry Hart (Firth) is tasked with finding a new recruit, setting his sights on a council estate delinquent, Eggsy (Egerton).

«America is not interested in kitchen sink dramas on council estates.

My own school was called Abbey Road Juniors; a squat little building on the council estate, with a bumpy playground built on a slant and two entrance gates with boys and girls written above them in sooty stone.

«I was born on a council estate in Cheshire, as the youngest of four children.

People on council estates were either criminals or living the Life of Riley at the expense of the taxpayer.

I started painting again when I was living on a council estate in south - east London and wanted to tell the stories that people tell each other about living in a place like that: stories that become urban myths.

«I live on a council estate in Birmingham UK.

«Financially I would have been better off but I'm a kid from Bradford, brought up on a council estate.

He grew up on a council estate, calls people «mate» and speaks with a London accent.

Grow up on a council estate in Keighley and you won't.

Fracking and chemicals billionaire Jim Ratcliffe — who grew up on a council estate — has been named Britain's richest person, with a # 21bn fortune

Bassam grew up on a council estate in Great Bentley, Essex and went to the local boys secondary modern school in Pathfield Road (now Colbayns) in Clacton - on - Sea.

Born in London, he grew up on a council estate in Northampton.

He grew up on a council estate in Northampton, was the first member of his family to go to university, and was one of a small group chosen by the Labour government under Gordon Brown to stand as national role models for young black men.

I live on a council estate myself and I daren't put this [costume] on walking through there, I'd get mugged.

For years working class communities, particularly those on council estates, have been ridiculed and demonised by large sections of the media.

Meanwhile, Stuart Andrew — the new MP for Pudsey — also talked about his own experience growing up on a council estate:

Thatcher's socially mobile children are arriving in Parliament Reading through the profiles of the new candidates, there are a surprising number talking about their «non-traditional Tory background» and of being inspired by Margaret Thatcher as they grew up on council estates and watched their parents buy their council houses in the 1980s.

The political class Adam [Afriyie] has got a very compelling story in many ways, he's self - made, was brought up on a council estate in Peckham, a guy of colour, very successful businessman and in many ways... If you look at David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Ed Balls, they're all people who have essentially spent their entire working life in politics, almost all of them have been PPE or equivalent graduates from Oxford or Cambridge.

Feigned indignation that her critics were being judgemental about people from Islington, accompanied by the hollow observation that she was born on a council estate, was a naive move for a senior politician.

Unlike most of her detractors, Emily Thornberry grew up on a council estate.

Emily was presented as one of Labour» s middle class professional MPs and should have said she was brought up on a council estate — would have put things more into context.