Sentences with phrase «once voted labour»

Sadly it looks like the people who vote UKIP are the people that once voted labour the working class, the choice of Tories or Tory Lite is just not good enough.

It took observers far longer than it should have to recognise that the bulk of Ukip's support was coming not from middle - class Tories in the Shires but the disillusioned working - classes who might have once voted Labour.

Not exact matches

Or, once again, as Peter Oborne indicated when writing on the subject, perhaps the Muslim vote isn't as securely for Labour as historic voting patterns have indicated.

Nor could an alliance have been put together once Labour decided to support Brexit - the Lib Dems are seeking to win votes from both Labour and the Tories, while many left - wing Labourites have not forgiven Farron's party for the coalition.

But if the vote had been between two «alliances», the right - wing side would have won 349 in England alone - including sizeable majorities in once - safe Labour turf such as Walsall North, Dagenham and Rainham, and Wakefield.

It's true that Labour does plan to make substantial cuts and there is a risk of losing votes to the Greens, although once again Bennett's performance was unimpressive and unlikely to appeal to mainstream voters.

We have no idea what they want; how to bring them back to the conversation; how to get them to vote Labour once more.

The student movement, which voted massively for Labour, will enter a period of enormous political upheavals once students grasp that Blair is going to abolish grants and try to impose tuition fees.

Next is strategy: the leadership can not simply wash its hands of those who have moved to Labour, because people who once voted for a party are most likely to return.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

None are likely to win enough votes to challenge either the Greens or the Liberal Democrats for their first list seat, nor SNP, Conservative or Labour even once their list vote is divided as they win seats.

Here it has come at the expense of the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, who now once again trail Labour in Westminster voting intentions (though they continue to hold a, now much shrunken, lead at Holyrood).

The logical consequence of Labour slumping to third place in some polls would be for more Labour voters to start voting tactically just as they once routinely expected Lib Dems to, and the leftwing think tank Compass is now actively debating this idea.

As was the position before Tony Blair resigned, we once again have a known unknown ahead of us — we know that in mid-December the Liberal Democrats will have a new leader, but we can't know until then what effect it will have on people's voting intentions — it may have none, it may see the Lib Dems taking support back off Labour, or off the Conservatives.

Labour's Ken Livingstone has narrowed the lead to just 2 %, once second preference votes are taken into account.

Once they have said yes to their union, they can be contacted by Labour to become an affiliated supporter with a vote in leadership elections and a right to attend constituency meetings.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

At Prime Minister's Questions today, Truss got fired up on Twitter once again when David Lidington claimed that Labour's ban on under - 18s using dangerous sunbeds was somehow at odds with the party's calls for under - 18s to be given the vote.

Further, once in parliament the Greens are more likely to vote with Labour policy than the Conservatives would be.

What is more, democratically speaking why should these people have their votes counted again and again while Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters only get their vote counted once?

He became the biggest casualty of the night when his once safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated as the SNP's Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

I worry that deep down these issues are only cared about for show to win votes and once in power we could be as disgusted with the Conservatives as we presently are with New Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn had been forced to back down once before the start of today's shadow cabinet meeting on Syria, offering Labour MPs a free vote on air strikes against Isis.

yes the peasants have awoken from their slumber to a new old labour the blair quietly took over labour making a it a greedie party who did nt want the peasants other than to vote em in yet corbyn has awoken the peasants to once more show we ai nt mugs no more jeff3

When Tony Blair said that Labour party members who were thinking of voting for Corbyn needed a heart transplant he was — from the heights of the grotesque wealth he has amassed only because Labour party members once upon a time put their trust in him — spitting on those outside the caste.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

At the same time he issued a plea to the Parliamentary Labour Party, 172 of which issued a vote of no confidence in him, to unite behind him once the leadership election is over.

Intent on expanding his vote among those Liberal Democrats opposed to cosying up to Labour, Mr Kennedy gives the impression of being sceptical about this project but, once elected, would continue with it anyway.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

It could go any way — BNP and UKIP voters are presumably more likely to move to the Tories than elsewhere, or the other votes may drift towards the Liberal Democrats, the traditional repository for voters disillusioned with both main parties, or these may merely be protesting Labour voters who will return to voting Labour once Tony Blair himself is replaced (or, of course, things could be different this time and the high level of «other support could persist into the next election — it is impossible to tell).

If Britain does remain in the EU, Labour's divisions will be exposed once again over the summer: the Conservatives will twist the knife over the Chilcot report on the Iraq war, due to be published early next month, and the future of the Trident nuclear weapons system, on which the government has said it will call a vote soon.

In the article, he wrote that catching «a glimpse of the forces supporting the Countryside Alliance: the public schools that laid on coaches; the fusty, belch - filled dining rooms of the London clubs that opened their doors, for the first time, to the protesters; the Prince of Wales and, of course, Camilla... and suddenly, rather gloriously, it might be that you remember [why you voted Labour] once again.»

A Labour activist once told me there was no point in campaigning in Hitchin because they would never vote Labour — that has been proved wrong then...

Try shifting out of London and the South for once, and you will find that Labour were winning seats we have never won before, because the LD vote has collapsed, and has largely gone to us.

Suppose there is no Labour candidate, then Labour supporters will be tempted to vote UKIP, and once they get the taste for rebellion, they might well stick with UKIP, like many of the working class are doing these days, and they'll be lost for good.

This time around I expect much of the Labour tactical vote to return to the Lib Dems as a) more people actually realise the Lib Dems actually did a good job holding the Tories in check during the Coalition and because Labour is doing so badly so wavering Labourites will once again vote Tom to stop the Tories here.

There was once a respectable Labour vote but it dissolved after 1970 when the Liberals started contesting the seat again.

The union certification process would be simplified by, among other changes, the removal of certain conditions for remedial union certification in cases of employer misconduct, allowing greater access to first contract arbitration, empowering the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the «OLRB») to conduct votes outside of the workplace and allowing unions to access employee lists and certain employee contact information once the union has twenty percent (20 %) of employees» support.