Sentences with phrase «progressive alliances with»

So we are resolute in wanting to explore the potential for progressive alliances with other parties that will deliver fair votes.

I'd have been in favour of putting together a progressive alliance with the Lib Dems if it had worked, much though it would have pained me...

He added: «So when people say to me you should form a progressive alliance with the Liberal Democrats, I just ask, what is progressive about them?

Creating a progressive alliance with Greens, SNP, Left Unity, Plaid Cymru makes a lot of sense and Compass could facilitate this.

Certainly there are some Labour plotters around, mostly those associated with constitutional reform who see Alan Johnson as a leader who could unlock doors and form a progressive alliance with the Liberal Democrats.

Scotland's first minister says she will seek progressive alliance with Labour and admits second referendum was factor in losing 21 seats

Not exact matches

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.

A «progressive alliance» is an idea that has plenty of support but few obvious prospects for success - with Ukip bleeding votes to the Conservatives, Tory dominance is on the way

... My worst scenario is that you won't end up fracturing towards the end but you will find that Nick will say — and this is where his heart really lies — that we should have a «national progressive alliance» with the Tories.

The trouble with a progressive alliance is there aren't enough progressives to go round.

This is why the working - class alliance with middleclass «progressives» is fracturing to my barely disguised glee.

In recent months the question of whether Labour ought to consider a «progressive alliance» with other anti-Tory parties has become a major talking point on the left.

The eight - member IDC maintains an alliance with Republicans, and the conference has frequently rebuffed criticism from other Democrats by saying that its members provide a way to pass progressive legislation in the Senate.

The Shadow Defence Secretary said Labour should try to make «progressive alliances» with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.

He added: «Such progressive alliances are now essential not just because that is the only way we can beat the Tories but because that is the way we will make better decisions and take more of the country with us.

The fallout from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new alliance with the progressive Working Families Party continues at the state Capitol, with those who say they represent upstate interests dismayed at the development.

Soto quickly responded with a written statement defending his record on progressive values, and on building local alliances.

«What's progressive about alliances with a party that spent six years slashing welfare spending in Britain, reorganised the health service and wasted # 3bn in doing it — forgive me, what is the progressive bit with the Liberal Democrats?»

Mr Corbyn said he was positive about improving his party's poll ratings and its performance at the ballot box, but also risked disappointing some senior Labour MPs by dismissing the radical idea of a «progressive alliance» with the Liberal Democrats.

The Labour leader went on to set out his views on a «progressive alliance» with the Liberal Democrats, stating that it is not a «credible» path for Labour after the smaller party's six - year record in coalition, including its support for welfare cuts.

Talk of a progressive alliance has been making headlines since the snap election was announced, with local parties deciding not to field candidates from Surrey to Yorkshire.

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

Elsewhere, Mr Corbyn also stamped down on calls from senior figures — including Labour frontbencher Clive Owen - to enter into a so - called «progressive alliance» with the Liberal Democrats and other parties to take on the Conservatives.

Throughout the election campaign, Ms Sturgeon had been hoping to form a «progressive alliance» with other parties to bring about change at Westminster.

The governor has for years taken a laissez - faire approach to the Senate leadership structure, and some progressives charge he encouraged Klein's alliance with Republicans as a bulwark for his own centrist policies — particularly during his first term.

He was able to sell the last two years of his alliance with the Republicans by saying he was pushing to get progressive legislation enacted, and has claimed credit for help in advancing a minimum wage increase and gun control legislation.

Some cabinet ministers hope that Gordon Brown could defy the disaster of Labour coming third in the share of the vote by joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in a «progressive alliance» to keep the Tories out of power even though Mr Cameron might have won more seats and votes than Labour.

If you want to understand the anger of Vince Cable and Chris Huhne you have to understand that their great hope of a new British politics dominated by them in alliance with left - wing parties has been defeated, defeated for a generation and defeated in large part by the Labour party that they had hoped would be their partners in building a progressive majority.

Members of the IDC and its allies say that their alliance with the Republicans has allowed them to advance progressive priorities like funding for immigrant legal services, raising the age of criminal responsibility and increasing the minimum wage.

These criticisms were not new as, according to Governing, progressives had long accused Cuomo of secretly approving of the IDC and its alliance with the GOP.

The fallout from Governor Cuomo's new alliance with the progressive Working Families Party continues at the Capitol, with those who say they represent upstate interests dismayed at the development.

Mr Cameron is not, however, enjoying a smooth ascendancy, with the Liberal Democrats yesterday ridiculing his attempts to form a «progressive alliance» with liberals and environmentalists.

Lewis also wants to see Labour forming progressive alliances or electoral pacts with other parties across the left including the Greens, Liberal Democrats and SNP.

«Such progressive alliances are now essential not just because that is the only way we can beat the Tories but because that is the way we will make better decisions and take more of the country with us,» he has stated in an article for the Guardian.

John Healey, a minister in Tony Blair's government, said he agreed with the Unite union general secretary, Len McCluskey, that the party's standing in the opinion polls was «awful» but said the answer was not building alliances with other progressive parties, such as the Liberal Democrats or the Greens.

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So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

But Mr Watson also dismissed the idea put forward by some Labour figures, most notably former Shadow Cabinet member Clive Lewis, that the party should agree a «progressive alliance» with some of its rivals to take on the Tories at the next election.

The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high - impact base - building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.

The IDC's members have long been strong supporters of LGBT rights and argued that their alliance with the GOP leadership offered an opportunity to bring a progressive voice to the discussion of Senate priorities.

The IDC has been subject of fierce criticism from mainline Senate Democrats and progressive groups over its alliance with the Senate's Republican conference.

Two powerful unions allied with Mr. Cuomo announced on Friday that they were withdrawing from the Working Families Party, a small but influential alliance of labor unions and progressive activists.

A Labour leader would be strengthened and not hindered by alliances with other parties, the progressive wing of the Liberal Democrats and Greens.

Last year's State Senate session ended with protests and arrests outside Klein's Capitol office, with demonstrators upset that he didn't use his alliance to win final votes on progressive bills they favored, including a system of public campaign finance and changes to the state's abortion laws.

Stewart - Cousins» statement mentioned neither Klein nor the IDC, but praised those who had pushed for the alliance, including Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and said the members of her conference «look forward to working with any senators» that share its progressive values.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

Trans - ideological governing - coalitions have ultimately seen the light, with conservative and progressive parties governing together as pragmatic alliances in the name of the EU orthodoxy.

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