Sentences with phrase «party interests rather»

But as the pleas from local people in Lewes show, making decisions based on party interests rather than the desires of local progressives can easily backfire.

Not exact matches

She has also been a strong voice for cooperation among progressive parties rather than for continued competition that mainly serves the interests of the Right (yes, yes, I know the argument that having many choices on your ballot is supposed to be a good thing, but the outcomes of Alberta elections suggest that in fact for progressives, it's just the opposite).

but rather the interests of the Democratic Party's anti-business left.

As an African American woman, it tells me that the Church is not interested in Calvary - like reconciliation; we'd rather stop short at empty words of «I'm with the blacks» and insensitive generalizations like «they were godly; they were happy» and uneducated assumptions that, because you have not heard, seen, or have been party to mistreatment, it doesn't exist.

In a series of editorials beginning in the spring of «32, the Century envisioned and promoted a different kind of third party — a party without candidates, a party representing disinterested political principles rather than special interests.

According to Messaggero Sport, the deal could now be completed in the next couple of weeks, although Liverpool are keen to wrap up the move sooner rather than later to avoid any other interested parties making a late swoop.

Arsenal are supposedly one of the interested parties in Sissoko, although it seems more of Sissoko's own imagination rather than an actual desire from the Gunners to sign the 26 year old.

Meanwhile, it's also suggested by Bild that Klopp wants Sanches on a permanent deal rather than on loan which is what has been proposed by Bayern to other interested parties, and so it remains to be seen what deal is reached.

At this weekend's party Arya was far more interested in looking at the adults rather than the little baby.

Ultimately, people will gravitate towards closed rather than open primaries in my view: (i) open primaries would need state involvement so are a deeper proposition (you need to run them concurrently and they would be too costly for the parties if done properly); (ii) vested interests may well prevail if the proposed reform is not building on the current system (as indeed they have in the Tory party where they experimented with this quarter - heartedly).

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

Tax payers looking at this Labour Party at this time will be waking up screaming Incidentally on your last rather interesting post, the same thought occurred to me, but what do you mean?

That level of ineptitude would be catastrophic to a political career, especially if it resulted from efforts at internal party management rather than the national interest.

«Because of the rather measured position that the hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer) had to present on behalf of the official Labour party, it falls to me to be the first Member of this House to set out the case for why I believe... that it is in the national interest for the United Kingdom to be a member of the European Union, why I believe that we have benefited from that position for the past 45 years and, most importantly, why I believe that future generations will benefit if we succeed in remaining a member of the European Union.

A Cabinet selected on the basis of its religious adherence rather than its competence and a prime minister actively sabotaging the national interest to prove her worth to a cabal of lunatics in the parliamentary party.

As a result, wealthy donors and the political action committees of unions and corporate interests often give to political party committees that are backing candidates they favor — in addition to, or rather than, the candidates themselves.

The pitch sold an idea of the party as a credible and reliable force, stressing competence, common - sense values and a willingness to defend the national interest rather than extreme partisan ideologies.

This is not to say that the increase in regional tension is insignificant, but rather that the involved parties all have a strong interest in maintaining mutual growth and have demonstrated their willingness to make strategic sacrifices to maintain the status quo.

[178][179][180] The article quoted Juan Williams as saying that the Tea Party's opposition to health reform was based on self - interest rather than racism.

Bello urged leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remain united behind the interest of the nation rather than «trigger divisive explosions within the ranks of the party», warning that some politicians who have lost relevance among their people are out to «damage the good atmosphere in the ruling party».

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

«I feel certain that the long - term best interests of your party are better served by acknowledging that and doing something about it, rather than acting out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the coalition.

I have had the opportunity to speak to many people who have the best interests of our party at heart and sooner rather than later I will make my political future clear.

One danger is that sitting legislatures will choose rules that advance their individual or party interest in re-election rather than to advance more general democratic values such as political competitiveness, diversity and voter choice, and the responsiveness of representatives.

Pushing the line that the PM's referendum plans are for the benefit of the Tory party rather than in the national interest, which Labour strategists clearly see as their strongest retort (read: EUreka), the Labour leader insisted that, four hours after the big speech that was six months in the making, Cameron still «can't answer the most basic question of all.»

«If at all former President Goodluck Jonathan is interested in anything, it should rather be who leads the party at the National level to push forward his vision for Nigeria.

Having dismissed the party political element from the subject covered by his book, Willetts goes on to claim it is the book's long - term focus, rather than its interest in the family, which makes it inherently Tory.

He did, however, have a lot of nice things to say about the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, who has expressed an interest in seeing the Senate remain under his party's control, but hasn't done much — at least not publicly — to further that (according to Siena, rather uphill) cause so far this campaign cycle.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

Dickson maintained that rather than embark on propaganda and outright lies, it was high time the party came together in the interest of peace.

Mr McDonnell branded the actions of Labour MPs who wanted Mr Corbyn to stand down as leader as «just bizarre» and «not acceptable», arguing that rather than infighting the party should be looking after the interests of the country as the Government «fell apart».

I suspect that people who are particularly attuned to this kind of story, or who think of women as a special interest group with their own «issues», are less likely to be open to a party that prefers to think of people as individuals rather than in categories.

53 per cent of voters believe the Conservative party is more interested in helping its own supporters, rather than people generally, compared to 41 per cent for Labour.

In a later interview on Radio 4's Today seminar, he continued: «The first thing is to try to convince those core Labour voters that appear to be deserting in droves that the Labour party is on their side and is pushing for their interests, rather than the interests of others.

«When those who are to supervise an election take over the process and turn themselves to interested parties rather than rise above board, then we breed nothing other than chaos, pandemonium, mayhem, confusion and disorganisation of the whole process.

Perhaps these idiots (and that's the only word that's useful here) like Blair himself have their own vested interests at heart rather than the party of the country.

According to him, however, some people are more interested in taking titles in the party, rather than building it.

Ms Cooper, who entered the Labour leadership race following the resignation of Ed Miliband in 2015, accuses Mrs May of pursuing «the short term interests of the Tory party rather than the long term interests of the country», adding that «both sides should get a grip and calm down».

The Labour MP accused the Home Secretary of acting in the interests of the Conservative Party rather than in the interests of the country and suggested she had lost control of her own policy.

But in a rather interesting twist, the Commission accepted the filing fee of the Progressive People's Party's (PPP) flag - bearer despite an interlocutory injunction placed on the process by the same pParty's (PPP) flag - bearer despite an interlocutory injunction placed on the process by the same partyparty.

«It is on the basis of these facts and some decisions of the Ajimobi's government as it affects the generality of our people that I have had cause in the past to criticise him and insist that the overall interest of APC as a political party in power should be paramount, rather than the egoistic feelings of the governor and his co-travellers.

On this principle rests the independence of Conservative MPs, who are free to be representatives of their constituents and of the national interest, rather than mere party delegates in Parliament.

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.

He argued that his party's opponents were right to claim that the party often «says different things in different parts of the country» and that it runs the risk of becoming a representative of vested interests in the public sector, rather than being a mouthpiece for voters who actually use key services.

In the absence of that premise, the goal of activists and interested parties to the bioethics debates should be to learn how best to educate the public, rather than to wield essentially meaningless statistics about existing attitudes.

Members seek out others with similar interests and build meems which remain on a user's hard drive rather than being uploaded to a third - party server.

I actually feel rather embarrassed around this flick: I feel like I'm at a party, and in the corner is a normally inoffensive but not particularly interesting girl, who has applied red eyeshadow with green mascara, and come in nothing but fishnets and a T - shirt in an attempt to get some attention, but everyone's still ignoring her except me, and now she's coming over to talk to me because she's just so desperate... I want to say to her, «Gee whiz, Joey, even with that colossal wardrobe blunder, still no - one cares!

Mario Party Island Tour and MP10 actually sold rather well which god knows why and it was a while back that they 100 % bought them out so yeah it's rather odd, but it just makes the new Mario Party game much more interesting.

For that reason, interested parties are better off checking out some of the documentaries, such as «Gulîstan, Land of Roses,» rather than this well - intentioned yet cliché - riddled lunge at the tear ducts.