The phrase
"political class" refers to a group of people who are involved in and have influence over politics. They often include politicians, government officials, lobbyists, and other individuals who have a significant impact on the decisions and policies made by a government.
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The fact it is mentioned now as a possible outcome is evidence that the
British political class has gone completely insane.
If even this proves too much to swallow for the
current political class then it appears that only a fully blown crisis will force movement.
Indeed, there is a good reason
why political class - types are all things to all people and never say anything interesting.
The resistance felt by the environmental movement is more likely inertia than an easily
identified political class or organisation.
But no - one watching today's session could have emerged with much faith in the
British political class to drag themselves out of this poisonous mess.
«I don't believe the Founders envisioned the kind
of political class that evolved,» he said.
«There is nothing new about this — it's the same old de Blasio and now he's a lame duck with no friends left in Albany and an entire
political class in the city looking to run for mayor themselves in four years,» said one Democratic insider sympathetic to Cuomo.
Though a governor, unlike a president or member of Congress, has virtually no influence on foreign affairs, the state's
political class with near unanimity supports Israel in its armed conflicts.
Giving his maiden speech in the House of Lords this week, former Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary Labour party David Watts said: «My advice to my own party leadership is that they should take less notice of the London - centric hard left
political class who sit around in their # 1m mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution.»
The commission's report comes after weeks of speculation about just how many harsh and damning details it would include about members of the state's
political class as well as legal challenges to its investigative efforts.
But as the comments rippled through New York's
political class on Tuesday, some were taken aback at the mayor's ratcheting - up of oratory.
The oil - sands crowd — most of the population and almost the
entire political class of Alberta and Saskatchewan — are defending the right of hard - working people to extract and sell a product that is, after all, legal to own and use, and that probably got your car to work this morning: hydrocarbon - based fuels.
He then formed a non-partisan government and took up the unpopular role of imposing necessary but painful reforms that the previous
political class did not have the willingness nor the political legitimacy to implement.
The populace is reeling from economic adversity, the greed of the thoroughly
corrupt political class, prevalent insecurity and dismay over hiccups in the assault on corruption.
Why is the Republican
political class taking on its own voting base and the general public in order to increase the labor supply in a sector of the labor market where the unemployment rate is high and wages are stagnant?
Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the
Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.
There's a
new political class, one marked partly by its obnoxious public divorces but even more by its blindness to much more important issues — the dignity of the unborn, the plight of the working class.
Last year the Labour peer Lord Watts had his own dig at North London Labourites when he described them as «the London - centric hard -
left political class who sit around in their # 1 million mansions eating their croissants at breakfast and seeking to lay the foundations for a socialist revolution».
With vanishingly few exceptions, he has outmaneuvered everyone in a state whose
political class thinks it is more sophisticated than most.
Matthew Boyle, the Washington political editor for Breitbart News, said his news organization's goal was to «hold the global
permanent political class in contempt.»
The demographics of the seat also work in Farage's favour; there are lots of Ukip - friendly voters who are disillusioned with the Conservatives and receptive to his message that they should say no to the European Union, no to the
established political class in Westminster and no to immigration.
While our
national political class dithers, and dabbles in inane political toxic fights, the Earth's ecosystem is telling us, in so many ways every day, that our consumer, wasteful way of life is dangerous.
What this has done is to discredit them and discredit the whole
political class because all that we are seeing now is childish behaviour.»
The MTA needs to invest the lion's share of its resources in upgrading a signaling network that predates World War II — and our gutless
political class needs to hold the MTA to account.
As New York's
Democratic political class mostly enabled or ignored the IDC's alliance with conservative Republicans in the senate, activists galvanized by Trump's terrifying rise to power turned their eyes to their own backyard, where they found many things that didn't quite smell right.
... as well as obvious political realities (wealthy people have political clout, far more so than high - income people; because the retirees are included and in modern western democracies Baby Boomers are basically the
dominant political class votes-wise);...
An elected second house would lead to a form of professional
political class like the one we have in the Commons; a class susceptible to cronyism, corruption and stupidity in return for a cabinet post or a vote.
Tim Montgomerie: Britain deserved to be downgraded, the British
political class simply isn't serious about cutting spending - The Times (#)
He's done this by ignoring the unwritten rules demanded by America's polite -
society political class and the mainstream media.
Meanwhile, Labour is paying the price of fielding a B - team in Scotland for the past decade, allowing Salmond to wipe the floor with the
local political class who simply aren't in his league.
Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the
American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.
On Tuesday, the new book Secret Empires: How the American
Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart Senior...
A trendy obsession for an out - of -
touch political class rather than a burning social crusade with widespread democratic support.
COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory -
obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».
-- but people forget that when Berlusconi was first prime minister of Italy he was seen as a good thing, he was seen as a major industrialist with the common touch, owning A.C. Milan and all of that, who swept aside a completely corrupt and
discredited political class in its entirety, which he did.
Nigel Farage's latest European Parliamentary tirade sees him attack the
European political class and Croatia's entry into the EU.
In many ways, the protests have demonstrated to the
Romanian political class that the people and their values can not be trampled on and that their voices and their wishes must be heard and respected.
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