Sentences with phrase «one's natural supporters»

Even now, 16 years after they dismissed us from office, many people who would once have been natural supporters still do not think the party is on their side.

Even as their once natural supporters abandon them, New Labour still has not learned that the public is rejecting old politics, and that people — gays included — are crying out for change.

She added: «I mean, I'm a card - carrying centrist mum & even I think the big vacancy in UK politics right now is for a leftwing party that doesn't embarrass and / or persecute its own natural supporters, not a new centrist party.»

Bill Thompson won't have Stringer competing with him for voters north of 110th Street, and Thompson can try to woo the outerborough Jewish voters who were Stringer's other natural supporters.

These were once the natural supporters of the old Left.

As with most areas of his leadership, he has gone far enough to alienate his natural opponents, but not far enough to inspire his natural supporters.

«We are their natural home and they are our natural supporters, regardless of what background or part of the country they come.»

They may not be natural supporters, but they will provide some supportive coverage on individual issues, even if they never throw their weight behind him entirely.

At the same time, although Cameron is known for being a pragmatic rather than ideological leader, he is a unionist, a convinced advocate of fiscal conservatism, and a natural supporter of a smaller government.

Michael Gove's aggressive stance against the education establishment risks losing votes for the Conservatives even among the party's natural supporters, according to a new poll.

But the striving class must also be given reason to believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel - and that a largely Conservative Government hasn't forgotten its natural supporters.

Labour's natural supporters were unimpressed with the austerity - lite alternative offered by the Labour Party.

«Plaid is trying to portray itself as the natural supporter of the trade union movement.

«We can see merit in David Cameron's leadership style but it is important to understand and reflect the views of our natural supporters.

«It would be all too easy for Labour leadership candidates to please their natural supporters by accusing the Lib Dems of being collaborators — a word John Prescott used to describe his former colleague John Hutton, advising the Government on pensions — as if we were now living under Nazi occupation.

There has been a preparedness to admit mistakes and ask painful questions about why so many of its natural supporters ended up feeling so betrayed by or isolated from Labour.

They said he had gone «back - wards» in an encounter with 20 socially conservative MPs, some of whom ought to be his natural supporters.

- And consider the reaction from the Conservative Party's natural supporters, bearing in mind the trouble the child benefit proposal is already running in to on the Tory backbenches.

CCSA Advocates harnesses the power of our natural supporters - charter school leaders, teachers, and parents.