Sentences with phrase «ordinary party members»

The deeply moving stupidity of ordinary party members, prepared to hit the bricks and shoot the shit whatever the weather.

Spending on this publicity campaign was at least ten times more than anything ever spent before and far beyond the means of the left and centre, let alone ordinary party members.

It has always been possible for ordinary party members to choose a leader that MPs wouldn't like, but other parties haven't fallen into quite such a hole as a result.

An odd move because neither man has much cache with ordinary party members.

The BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said it was interesting that opposition to the reforms had come from ordinary party members rather than trade unionists - perhaps underlining concern about how the changes would affect their own votes.

Watson said ordinary party members would also expect their frontbench to be freed from the «tyranny» of reading out prepared lines and to stop talking in «special adviser speak».

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader has been warned by leading Labour figures including Dagenham MP Jon Cruddas that he risks missing a huge opportunity to make Labour more democratic and ensure ordinary party members» views are heard in planned reforms.

Also under David Cameron's watch ordinary party members lost the right to deselect sitting MEPs.

«Within the parliamentary Labour party people are making all sorts of bluster and threats, but in the end people have to pay attention to what ordinary party members are thinking and saying.

If you count the number of people with Makarfi and the so - called leaders, they are not more than the entire population of the unknown and ordinary party members nationwide.

The regional executive includes all Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament representing constituencies within the region, all Members of the House of Lords who are members of the regional party, all Liberal Democrat Members of the European Parliament representing areas in the region, ordinary party members elected from within the region, and additional members co-opted by the executive.

Mandelson's ludicrous claim that Corbyn is «intentionally divisive» isn't supported by ordinary party members, who think Jeremy stands for them in a way that New Labour never did

An MP in the Ed Miliband campaign tells me they had predicted exactly the PLP section vote, and quite closely the Union and Affiliates section vote, but they were disappointed with the Members section vote, as their figures had shown them winning more among ordinary party members.

I can't believe that many of the posts here and on Guido's blog are from genuine ordinary party members.

I am sure your view is not shared by the majority of the PLP or ordinary party members who you arrogantly assume should have no say in this process.

On issues like gay marriage, Cameron has pandered to what they perceive to be the prevailing liberal - left agenda on moral and cultural matters, arrogantly dismissing the views of ordinary party members.

The leader is elected by the PLP (which is made up of all Labour MPs), trade union members affiliated to the Labour party, and ordinary party members.

Labour's electoral «college» is split into three sections — MPs and euro MPs, union - affiliated members and ordinary party members, all of whom can vote for more than one candidate in an order of preference.

Apparently, David's lead among the parliamentary third of Labour's electoral college was not big enough to compensate for his relative weakness among the other two sections, which are ordinary party members and affiliated trades - union members.

«Labour is lucky, save in the 1981 deputy leadership contest, that it has never elected a leader or deputy in the modern era against the majority wishes of ordinary party members.

But in other respects Lamb's politics were more distant from those of ordinary party members.

«They may even be ordinary party members, but the fact is that the party did not bus anybody.

Obviously I used my MPs vote — the one that was worth hundreds of times that of the votes of ordinary party members and trade union levy payers.

Labour leadership elections have previously been decided by a complex electoral college system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

«Redrawing the boundaries does present an opportunity for the selection of some new candidates who may be more in tune with the views of ordinary party members.»

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.