Sentences with phrase «party political debate»

However, what is much more questionable is the need for the prohibition to be extended beyond the main party political debate and outside election periods.

What it requires, Lacey argues, is nothing less than for the two main political parties to agree to remove the size of the prison system from party political debate.

If that MP can be the sole voice speaking up for, representing, the party in the parliament when there is a party political debate, why can not that MP vote on behalf of the party, and why should that vote not reflect the full weight of votes determined by the votes cast by the electorate in the General Election?

Not exact matches

While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

In the upcoming months as the political debate unfolds, any economic policy proposed by any political party, to be financed from the rather small projected surpluses, should be judged, at a minimum, on how it will strengthen economic growth and job creation.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

The party's influence on the political debate will probably encourage establishment parties to court NF voters by adopting some of its proposals, including on immigration — for the center - right — and opposition to fiscal rigor — for the Socialists.

If I were making the decisions, I would invite the leader's from all the political parties to join the televised debate, but because the decision is being made by a private television company I can understand how they came to this conclusion.

The legislative session produced ejections, MLA suspensions and other intrigue but amidst the budget debates and political drama the New Democratic Party government pursued a fairly ambitious legislative agenda.

Frank Luntz, famed political consultant to the Republican Party, said when it comes to political hot buttons «those who define the debate will determine the outcome.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

«It is certainly true that Catholic social doctrine challenges all parties in the ongoing debate over political economy in the United States.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

The party's documents say its «policies are based on the Christian view of Man and his responsibility before God,» but it rarely articulates that basis in political debate.

«Political parties have a choice; they can lead the debate on foreign investment or they can follow it.

They had been assigned to represent either the Federalist or the Republican party during the political debates of the 1790s, and they covered their posters with slogans and arguments supporting the case for their vision of government, preparing for a class - wide debate.

Members from all political parties gathered in the House of Commons earlier this week to debate harassment in public life.

Various political parties have chastised the IEA for what they describe as disrespectful and unfair arrangements adopted for this year's presidential debates.

To conclude, the quotes that Keith Vaz fed to the press regarding the report encapsulate the nature of the political debate in the country, in particular the consensus between the main parties in terms of stated political goals and values on immigration.

Paladino also praised a man he just recently was quoted as calling a «degenerate idiot» — former Gov. George Pataki — saying his fellow Republican «put his own political best interests aside for the public good» by insisting in 2002 that the minor party gubernatorial candidates be included in debates along with his Democratic opponent, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

He used a parliamentary debate to call for a shake - up of the way party political broadcasts are regulated, in order to give the parties more flexibility.

The leaders of the three biggest political parties will face each other live in three TV debates leading up to the general election.

In other words, David Cameron's commitment to an in - or - out referendum on Britain's EU membership primarily for party political reasons has fundamentally reshaped the terms of the British domestic debate on Europe but it also has huge implications for both the UK and European integration in general.

Turning next to UKIP, there are clearly still interesting debates to be played out in a party that is only just reaching political maturity.

Today, in spite of a leader who has been ambivalent towards European integration for most of his political career (Jeremy Corbyn voted against the Lisbon Treaty), there has been virtually no room allowed for debate within the party over EU membership.

In recent memory, popular discontent began to be more clearly channelled by fringe political parties after the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and the debate on the European Constitutional Treaty (ECT); both events sharpened and clarified political oppositions to the EU.

Today many political operatives create blogger networks to help build conversation and debate around a political party, issue area, or ideology.

One of the most striking aspects in the current debate on devolution in the North of England is that the main actors (local governments, leaders» boards, political parties, business organisations, etc.) seem to work in isolation — each devising their own plans, often irrespective (or wary) of the positions of the others.

That means legislation, which will need cross-party backing, and a national debate about whether we really want political parties to go in that direction.

The leaders of the three biggest political parties will face each other live in three TV debates...

The leaders of the six «main» parties (VVD, PvdA, CDA, D66, SP and PVV) each had two opportunities to debate, while the leaders of the six «small» parties (Green Left, Christian Union, 50 +, Party for the Animals, Reformed Political Party and Independents) each had the chance to debate once.

The FSB has welcomed the recent debate on taxation, but urges all political parties to put more emphasis on small business taxation in their policy proposals.

If the Tories do rear their «true» head & claim that the cuts will (& should) be permanent, then the debate will be between amputation vs cure in how to deal with the deficit, breaking what patina of consensus still remains between political parties over the necessity of the welfare state.

As far as I remember, it was the first time that political entities and parties were openly calling for abstentionism, and this triggered some debate about whether advocating for abstentionism was a constitutional right or not.

[60] In April 2012, in the midst of a debate about the nature of political party funding, Miliband called on David Cameron to institute a # 5,000 cap on donations from individuals and organisations to political parties, after it had been suggested that the government favoured a cap of # 50,000.

In addition, Recchia's decision to skip two key debates against Grimm in Brooklyn, the Bay Ridge Community Council debate in September and an October forum sponsored by the Dyker Heights Civic Association, was questioned by political observers in both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Republican Jack Martins and Democrat Laura Curran, the major party candidates for Nassau County executive, squared off Monday in their only televised debate, with each pledging to root out political corruption and improve the county's lagging finances.

Throughout the campaign for the 7 May elections, Miliband insisted that David Cameron should debate him one on one as part of a televised election broadcast [104] in order to highlight differences in policies between the two major parties, but this was never to happen, with the pair instead being interviewed separately by Jeremy Paxman as part of the first major televised political broadcast of the election involving multiple parties.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

This has been reflected in our consistently providing platforms for Labour - LibDem dialogue, seeking to foster engagement between party politics and civic pressure, and in co-hosting the left and liberty session at the Convention for Modern Liberty, and in being significantly engaged in debates about the pluralist reform of party politics, the broader political settlement and the new «movement politics» of a pluralist left.

In war and peacetime, it has generally been accepted that major foreign policy issues were taken secretly and that foreign policy was not open to much party - political conflict, but was national, and therefore above party - political debate («securitised»).

Something presently missing from all political parties is a verve and passion for political discourse and debate.

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

The Dems» fractious online army attempted to pull the party to the unelectable margins of political debate.

The three candidates vying for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board debated a number of issues Monday evening at the East Hampton Library, with a political newcomer who has the party's backing repeatedly if gently attempting to draw a...

The Group continued into the 1960s and although it was never formally wound up it became increasingly a debating society as the mainstream of the party endorsed Grimond's political strategy and the economic liberals gradually lost influence or left the party.

The three candidates vying for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board debated a number of issues Monday evening at the East Hampton Library, with a political newcomer who has the party's backing repeatedly if gently attempting to draw a distinction between himself and the candidate who does not.