Sentences with phrase «oppose social reforms»

I've been a democrat for all of four months now, and what has surprised me the most is how passionately conservative evangelicals oppose social reforms that benefit the poor.

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But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

It means the party's pro- and anti-NHS reform forces have effectively cancelled each other out and that the party now neither supports nor opposes the health and social care bill.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

During the General Strike of 1926 the party opposed the general strike, arguing that the best way to achieve social reforms was through the ballot box.

When Liberals next claim that they care more than you, remind them that their party opposed almost every social reform introduced by those very same one nation conservatives.

During the same period it has opposed, delayed and sought to reject almost all of the steps taken by former Labour governments to introduce social reforms, from the inception of the NHS to any changes to the House of Lords itself.

De Blasio's full - court press for universal pre-K and added social services has backing from the teachers and principals unions, which oppose many of Cuomo's reforms.

So, for example, the sorts of reforms Lisa and I might favor are likely to be opposed by the very teacher educators currently overemphasizing (in our view) social justice at the expense of pedagogy.

Don't tell me the elderly put the interest of coming generations ahead of their own, because if they did, they wouldn't be so opposed to reforms in Social Security.

At the same time, I oppose any tax increase for Social Security and support making personal retirement accounts part of Social Security reform.