Sentences with phrase «support social democrat»

Research shows that swing voters broadly support social democrat views on the crucial questions of tax and spend, the size of the public sector and the provision of public services.

It is one of the injustices that drives me to be a big active state backing, high public spending supporting social democrat.

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

Not exact matches

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

In his last major TV appearance before the German election, Social Democrats leader Martin Schulz has warned that Merkel's conservatives could erode social support sySocial Democrats leader Martin Schulz has warned that Merkel's conservatives could erode social support sysocial support systems.

«If it wasn't for families stepping forward to share their struggles publicly, the Liberal government would have continued taking child support money that rightfully belonged to kids,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

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.

«Child support payments belong to children, not to the government,» said New Democrat social development...

What evidence there is clearly does not support either the disciples of Hayek or Swedish social democrats; but neither, unfortunately, does the evidence locate the tilting - point.

On the other hand, you talk a lot about the social support that families need, which a lot of people associate with the Democrats» sort of approach to these policies.

For most of the post-war period, electoral support for the Social Democrats hovered around 45 percent.

While the Hollande wish to re-open the treaty is worrying the German government, the leader of the German Social - Democrats, Sigmar Gabriel, is doing his best to give as much support as possible to Hollande.

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.

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

«The Social Liberal Forum welcomes the vote by the Liberal Democrat conference not to support Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill.

Reeves said she had gathered support among European social democrats for her plans, adding that she was prepared for a fight with the European commission.

Liberal Democrats should continue to debate whether to support the Health and Social Care Bill

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 Social Liberal Forum exists to foster debate within and beyond the Liberal Democrats, with the aim of developing social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular suSocial Liberal Forum exists to foster debate within and beyond the Liberal Democrats, with the aim of developing social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular susocial liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular support.

Pelosi told the president that House Democrats still support his push for a «grand bargain» that doesn't balance the budget on the backs of seniors with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a Democratic aide said.

Within the Liberal Democrats, the two main ideological strands are social liberals and the classical liberals, the latter supporting economic liberalism.

US Hispanic voters showed signs of staying away from Obama due to his race - hence their support for Hilary Clinton in the Democrat contest - and liberal social attitudes.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

Please Note: «OTH» here refers to the total support / seat levels estimated for the smaller parties (including the Greens, Social Democrats, Solidarity - People Before Profit and Renua — as the published version of an earlier post showed, it gets «messy» if there are too many columns in the tables here!

The biggest decline in comparision with the previous poll conducted by the same newspaper in mid-March recorded the Social Democrats» support shrinking from 10.6 % to 4.4 %.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

The SLF exists to foster debate within and beyond the Liberal Democrats, with the aim of developing social liberal solutions and approaches which reflect these principles and which find popular support.

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.

Earlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) said she would support President Obama's proposed Social Security benefit cuts — even arguing that using the «chained CPI» would not be a benefit cutA after previously telling President Obama «that House Democrats will not vote for any trims to future benefits in Medicare or Social Security, even a tweak to the cost - of - living index,» A according to her hometown paper.

Roy Jenkins told me when I was considering joining Labour after Tony Blair became Labour leader: «The only real difference is that Labour is now the larger party of social democrats, the Lib Dems are the smaller; and in our political system, it is generally wise to support the larger party if they are on the same page.»

There the long - governing Social Democrats have ruled with more or less formal support from other parties — in the mid-20th century from Agrarians, after 1968 from Communists, and more recently from Greens and ex-Communists — and have thus been able to retain executive power and (in practice) legislative initiative.

Labour Party minister Peter Hain [219] has written in support of libertarian socialism, identifying an axis involving a «bottom - up vision of socialism, with anarchists at the revolutionary end and democratic socialists [such as himself] at its reformist end» as opposed to the axis of state socialism with Marxist — Leninists at the revolutionary end and social democrats at the reformist end.

Throughout Europe, social democrats are struggling to formulate a response to austerity that can at once protect the most vulnerable and attract the broader support needed to win.

As featured in the Independent on Sunday, The Social Liberal Forum has sent the letter below to all non-Ministerial Liberal Democrat MPs, urging them to follow eleven of their colleagues in supporting the inclusion of a clear target to decarbonising the UK energy supply.

-LSB-...] Thanks to a brilliantly effective campaign by EMLD (led by Baroness Meral Ece in the Lords) and the Social Liberal Forum, along with the Liberal Democrat Disability Association, we supported the amendments proposed by crossbencher Baroness Campbell and managed to pull some of this....

[5] Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, has stated that Sanders is a social democrat and not a democratic socialist -LSB-...] Mike Konczal, an economic policy expert at the Roosevelt Institute, also characterizes Sanders» positions as «social democracy» rather than «socialist», noting that social democracy means support for a mixed economy combining private enterprise with government spending, social insurance programs, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and democratic participation in government and the workplace - all of which are a part of Sanders» platform.

The group was created by a «coalition of concerned citizens» and the page shows support for other political - themed groups on the social network such as Ruben Diaz Jr. for Mayor in 2013 and Albany County Young Democrats.

The Liberal Democrat leader said he feared «serious social strife» if an administration with minimal support raised taxes, laid off public sector workers and froze wages.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have criticised the Tory UK Government for delaying a cap on care costs secured by former Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb, following an announcement by the Welsh Government that no decision can be made about reform of arrangements for paying for social care and support in Wales.

There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left - leaning speech to the Liberal Democrat conference - the crude jokes about bankers, the re-plugging of his beloved mansions tax, the way in which support for deficit reduction is wrapped up in the garnish of social democracy, with Bevin, Cripps and Roy Jenkins prayed in aid.

Her coalition partner in the last government, the Social Democrats (SPD), came second, but it, too, lost support, and has pledged to move into opposition.

One way to tackle the welfare challenge is to reduce income support for refugees, they say, but social democrats are strongly opposed.

To wit, D'Souza goes to the Democrat Party Headquarters and compares their platform of equality and social justice to their history of supporting slavery and opposing equal rights, and how they've been able to rebrand themselves by denying their transgressions and recycling their tactics of intimidation.

As my Fordham colleague Chester Finn recently observed, longstanding bipartisan support for the education reform agenda has collapsed: «As Democrats pander to teachers» unions and minority grievances and Republicans focus on social issues and culture wars, little energy remains for school reform.»

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

The motion was supported by a wide majority, including the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, the two political sides that can't agree about a coal exit in Germany.

Sen. Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerZuckerberg announces support for regulating political ads on social media United Talent Agency announces third annual White House Correspondents» party Overnight Tech: Latest on shooting at YouTube Facebook deletes more Russian accounts Trump keeps up attack on Amazon Senators press Grindr on privacy MORE (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate panel, reportedly said that he and Burr have agreed on the testimony.