Sentences with phrase «social democrat who»

Writing on his blog, the journalist described himself as a «radical social democrat who favours the creation of a peer - to - peer sector (co-ops, open source etc) alongside the market and the state, as part of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy».

So it is time for Nick Clegg to practice the political honesty which he preaches, and accept that he is in fact a social democrat who shares far more in common with Labour than the Tories.

Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

These politicians are up against social conservatives who believe in marriage and the church, economic conservatives who believe in the market and social democrats who want to give power to the state.

Sigmar Gabriel is leader of the Social Democrats who share power with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

The SNP are born again social democrats who offer crumbs to working class / working people; Scottish Labour should offer power and a redistribution of wealth.

Not exact matches

The Social Democrats, who had governed alongside Merkel in the previous mandate, saw its worst election result since the World War II in September.

Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who campaigns for the Social Democrats and backs Merkel's rival Martin Schulz, did a similar live interview streamed on Facebook, which has been clicked 33,000 times.

His remarks appeared aimed at the FDP and the Social Democrats (SPD), who on Monday ruled out renewing their «grand coalition» with the conservatives.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

The protests were timed to coincide with a Monday meeting of Germany's Social Democrats, who were expected to vote on whether to support CETA.

The Social Democrats, who are part of the ruling «grand coalition», scored 23.5 percent, while the Alternative for Germany stood at 11 percent, the Left Party at 10.5 percent and the Greens at 6 percent.

So, if a Gang of Eight - style bill passes, we will get political trench warfare in which the Democrats will treat those who get amnesty as future citizens of a social democratic America and Republicans will treat them as bipedal automatons for benefit of the entrepreneurs who «built that.»

I know a large number of christians who would vote democrat based upon social policy, but won't because of the single issue of abortion.

You know, there are an awful lot of us who a christian who vote democrat and who have been getting verbally and ideologically by our right wing bretheran for being «those social justice christians».

In Chile, the US helped overthrow the democratically - elected social democrat government of Salvador Allende and replaced him with Augusto Pinochet, the murderous puppet tyrant who killed thousands and implemented a brutal free - market programme, ruining the Chilean economy and driving a relatively wealthy country into poverty.

Therefore, despite describing himself as «a European social - democrat who takes inequality very seriously», Miliband has witnessed and even promoted the rise of a number of ideological sensibilities.

In a recently published paper, we show that an important part of the explanation is that the Social Democrats have become unable to reconcile the demands of two groups of voters that have traditionally sup - ported them: on the one hand labour market «outsiders,» who have insecure jobs or no jobs at all; on the other hand labour market «insiders» with stable employment.

Ed obtained the support of most of the Unions and of many social - democrats who had at some point started to despise the Blairite model, examples being Roy Hattersley and Neil and Gladys Kinnock.

A third perspective has been offered by classic social - democrats like Roy Hattersley, who backed Miliband and his One Nation Labour, but firmly opposed any Blairite resurgence.

Criticizing federal inaction on Russian interference in U.S. elections, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat - led Assembly said they plan to try to pass a law in New York that would require social - media companies to disclose who paid for their ads.

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

There might be one group around relatively communitarian «reciprocity social democrats» who are less rooted in market scepticism as their way into it than your left communitarians.

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Participation in the Social Liberal Forum is open to anyone who shares a belief in social liberalism, whether they are members of the Liberal Democrats oSocial Liberal Forum is open to anyone who shares a belief in social liberalism, whether they are members of the Liberal Democrats osocial liberalism, whether they are members of the Liberal Democrats or not.

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

Responding to the vote (by 314 to 270) of the Liberal Democrat Conference to reject a call from Shirley Williams to support the Health and Social Care, Dr Evan Harris — who proposed the deletion of the lines which...

The left bloc — comprising of the Left - Green Party, the Pirates (who also had a good election), Bright Future and the Social Democrats — hold 27 seats.

The main party in power are Social - Democrats who have a significant nationalist / conservatism part within their ideology (or at least their political actions show this):

Yes, online applications like Twitter and social networking sites have immense potential to raise high the low and bring down the mighty, but the tools ultimately don't care who uses them: dictators and demagogues have access to the same technologies as democrats and and the dispossessed, and they probably have more resources to put behind them.

Anyone who is a member of the Social Liberal Forum is eligible to stand and membership of the SLF is free to all members of the Liberal Democrats.

Perry's appearance wasn't lost on Democrats, who tied Astorino to some of Perry's conservative social positions.

Syracuse, N.Y. - Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is thinking about challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year, said during a stop in Syracuse Wednesday his focus would be on jobs and not the social issues he says Democrats use to muddle the message.

Charles Kennedy, who had been elected as a Social Democrat, eventually became leader of the Liberal Democrats.

She is disagreeing with FDR on Social Security, LBJ on Medicare and with the vast majority of progressive Democrats in the House and the Senate, who today are fighting to end the disgrace of the United States being the only major country on Earth that doesn't provide paid family and medical leave.

Evennett was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the newly formed Social Democrats in 1981.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

But with the Democrat, Schumer said, «you're going to get someone who's going fight to preserve Medicare and Social Security, in addition.»

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

The 23 year old who came from 4th place to gain Ross Cromarty and Skye, that same Charles Kennedy who inspired so many who had doubts to support the merger of Social Democrats and Liberals.

Lafontaine, who fell from grace with the Social Democrats after leaving the party in 2005 and later forming a left alliance, had little to say on the coalition issue.

President Mahama, who is seeking a second term in office, said this at a conference of social democrats and socialist political parties under the umbrella of the Socialist International.

Warner, who is also a former adviser to Jack Straw, said that he had no plans to join another party and that he would remain a left of centre «social democrat».

On the other side of Clegg's party are those who are closer to being social democrats.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

The Left - Greens have never been elected to office, but are expected to double their vote from 14 % to 28 % while Sigurdardottir's social democrats, who are calling for Iceland to join the EU and the euro, should comfortably win the vote with around 35 %, up six points on two years ago.

This past Wednesday afternoon, during a panel discussion on social media and the 2012 elections at The Century Foundation in New York City, Nicco Mele, a lecturer at Harvard University who was Howard Dean's webmaster and whose company, EchoDitto, worked on Barack Obama's web campaign for U.S. Senate, made a startling statement: it's not too late for a national Democrat to put together a 2012 primary challenge.

Ashdown, who describes himself as a «social democrat» and of the «centre left» says this coalition has proved that parties that do not like each other can still govern together well in the national interest.

Democrats who dominate the Assembly, who spent their day demanding on social media that Cuomo send them budget bills, left the Capitol for the evening slightly before 5 p.m. with plans to return in the morning.

Trump is reportedly highly interested in choosing retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as his running mate, but pro-choice comments by Flynn, who said in 2015 that he's a registered Democrat, are sure to not sit well with social conservatives.