Sentences with phrase «than the liberal democrats»

Over 80 % of UKIP seats came from the Tories, and the Tories lost a greater proportion of their seats to UKIP than the Liberal Democrats, while Labour lost barely any to them.

But they can create the conditions for more equal relations between the parties than the Liberal Democrats have experienced for the past five years.

Reeves was wholly wrong to say of social liberals that our principles were those of Labour rather than the Liberal Democrats.

Dealing and coalition formation would be the norm, and no party seemed better placed to profit from that circumstance than the Liberal Democrats.

A YouGov poll showing the Green Party has more support than the Liberal Democrats raises yet more questions as to why the party is being excluded from a planned series of debates ahead of next year's election...

But you know who I dislike more than the Liberal Democrats?

As a result, even though the SNP government is now a minority one once more, it is the Greens — who have one more Holyrood seat than the Liberal Democrats — who nowadays find themselves the pivotal players in the Edinburgh chamber.

For Hannan, the problem goes back longer than the Liberal Democrats» inception.

It's therefore very possible that UKIP could poll more votes than the Liberal Democrats in the 2015 election but win no seats, with the beleagured Lib Dems retaining more than half of their current incumbents.

In the 2010 General Election Labour got 8,609,527 votes — far more than the Liberal Democrats who share power with the Tories.

Osborne has gone a step further than the Liberal Democrats and Labour by swapping his aim of a current budget surplus, which excludes investment spending, to an overall budget balance.

He added: «There are of course, many more Labour than Liberal Democrat candidates in winnable marginal seats, so I've had to concentrate my cash on first - time Labour candidates, rather than ex-MPs.»

Labour is a close challenger to the Conservatives in far more seats than the Liberal Democrats are; any fall in the Conservative vote, therefore, is likely to benefit Labour.

No political party can have gone into the final week of a byelection campaign in less propitious circumstances than the Liberal Democrats.

The party will also be encouraged by a finding that 25 % of all voters said they are «likely» to consider voting Green, higher than the Liberal Democrats on 23 % and just one point behind Ukip on 26 %.

«The Coalition is changing the Liberal Democrats more than the Liberal Democrats are changing the Coalition Main A Thatcher birthday tribute?

He's obliged to deny that the Conservatives could do better out of the Coalition than the Liberal Democrats, and thus says that they'll both do splendidly, thank you very much.

The Coalition is changing the Liberal Democrats more than the Liberal Democrats are changing the Coalition

Has Ming managed to find an easier target than the Liberal Democrats?

Not exact matches

It is unclear what level of financial support the Liberals and New Democrats would be willing to provide Chrysler, except that the amount is significantly higher than zero.

But while 70 % of liberal Democrats say tax rates on household incomes over $ 250,000 should be raised, fewer than half of conservative and moderate Democrats (46 %) say the same.

Job Creation: worse under the Liberals than under the New Democrats: Under the NDP, B.C. gained 383,100 jobs (1,577,800 to 1,960,900) in 115 months (November 1991 to May 2001) and total jobs grew by 24.3 per cent in that period.

When Alberta's Legislative Assembly reconvenes in the next few months, for the first time since 1982 the title of Official Opposition will given to a caucus of MLA's representing a party other than the New Democrats or the Liberals.

The diagnosis forced some immediate changes — «not all bad,» concedes Dix, now 48, seemingly poised to return B.C. to the New Democrats after more than a decade of Liberal rule.

Of course since they are both Democrats the same idiot right - wingers who make idiotic comments about liberals will bash Spitzer and Schumer both and say they are too stupid to score that high on the SAT even though clearly Schumer and Spitizer are orders of magnitude more intelligent than them and all their right - wing heroes

It is ironic that the values of liberal democrats reflect the teachings of Christ much more faithfully than do the rigid dogmatic proclamations of conservative republicans.

There are many Christian liberal Democrats; the difference is that we do not boast to be «holier than thou» Christians in order to influence others to vote Democrat.

But Morrison believed that despite the Republican incumbent's adherence to «rugged individualism» and his overly cautious approach to the depression, he would be more liberal — or at least more responsibly conservative — than Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Less than two months later, Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying he felt «torn» between his faith and job; he also admitted failings in his handling of the interest in him.

With America's meager pro-life protections under daily assault by the Obama administration, why give such a dismantling the imprimatur of an international «human rights body,» staffed by ideologues and committed to policies more radical than those of the most liberal Democrats?

Rebecca Dresser, a self - described «liberal Democrat,» provides a necessary corrective to the standard liberal bashing of Kass's chairmanship of the Bioethics Council with her moving testament to his wisdom in creating a seminar of humanists to clarify the values at stake, rather than a board of bioethicist technocrats to provide pat answers.

These people are sick no doubt but an honest, objective, unbiased person would find them no sicker than your average liberal Democrat.

, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.

But the only major party that may be less than adulatory in its greeting will be the Liberal Democrats.

It claims that the Democrats were slightly more liberal in 2010 -LRB--.329) than 1993 -LRB--.314).

The government said it will seek to reduce the number of empty homes maintained by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after the Liberal Democrats claimed it was wasting more than # 25 million a year on unoccupied properties.

An understanding under which the Liberal Democrats would not vote down a Queen's Speech is much more likely than a formal coalition.

The Conservatives have received well over half of all party donations this year and far more than Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined.

Both the Liberal Democrats and Labour are steering clear of the debate, claiming they have better things to do than indulge the Tories.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said violent, and in particular gun crime, is «still far higher» than ten years ago.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» mliberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» mLiberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

«So I hope than in 2008 the Liberal Democrats and the Green party will join us in putting pressure on the government to decentralise power, and that together we can create a new progressive alliance to decentralise British politics.»

After 500 days in government, Liberal Democrats have even more reason to feel uncertain now than they did 12 months ago.

The reasons why liberals or conservatives would feel a certain way may be different than the reason a Democrat or Republican would feel a certain way.

The Liberal Democrats would therefore have done better to force the issue to a vote in this parliament, rather than deliberately kicking it into the long grass.

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

Liberal Democrats will call time on coalition unity this spring, David Laws has revealed, with a «differentiation» offensive set to make internal strains greater than ever before