Sentences with phrase «think labour need»

The answer is not much — 65 % still think Labour need to make major changes to their policies (including 45 % of Labour voters!)

It might not go down very well, but not all benefits are universal — I think Labour needs to bite the bullet and do what makes economic sense to most people rather than stick to vague arguments that «if the rich don't get it, they won't want it given to the poor»

I also think Labour needs to stop being so afraid of its members; the MPs are arguably more distanced from the electorate than members are, both in terms of their pay, and their attitudes.

Not exact matches

We think so, but we need convincing to believe that simply going to a labour based approach as proposed in the Jenkins report, along with decreasing the refundable portion of the credit over time are all that is needed to free up the monies and make the SR&ED incentives a truly effective instrument.

You might not think a business focussed on providing labour to build and connect physical networks needs to spend much on technology.

I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled labour shortages; some think it applies to our need to attract more professionals such as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.

I clearly need to listen more to my wife, who thought that Brexit would happen, that Trump would win and that the UK media was materially underestimating Labour's support among British voters.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: «I think what we need in this country is something more robust like a War Powers Act so that governments do get held to account by Parliament for what they do in our name.»

Someone can deliver a live baby after two days of labour and look back and think that they didn't need a c - section and be glad they didn't get one, but if a woman has been actlively labouring for 12 hours, chances are that the risks of augmentation or a c - section are lower than the risks of waiting.

In Dr Amy's picture the variability is absent which is very abnormal, but another trace may have normal variability (a nice squiggly line) with some quite impressive decels which you could wait on for a while, try dome position changes etc. it's not uncommon to think «crap, we're going to need a C Section», but then the problem resolves and you can continue with labour.

Of course, when a doctor is the one attending your birth, they sometimes like to think that you need to be assisted through your birth with their help, not the other way around, and thus they will deliver your baby to you once they've saved you from your strong contractions and prevented you from labouring too hard with all of their tools.

(A fault of New Labour was that, in 1996 - 97 it was sometimes good at broadening the sense of who was included in the nation to bring in those Tebbit seemed to reject, and its critics may not realise that this was important at the time, yet it also seemed to think it needed to reject those with an attachment to tradition or history to do so in the name of perennial New - ness.

«So clients are going to have to think very creatively: where are the constituencies that Labour needs to win and how can clients» case be made relevant to Labour in 2017?»

«Labour haven't set out any kind of vision for Britain because they didn't think they needed to,» he says.

New Labour figures believe any move to the left makes the party unelectable, but many figures in the party think voters need a decisive break with the past if they are to put their faith in Labour again.

I agree that the redistributive settlement needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things, as New Labour did.

My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan, Labour peer as well as distinguished historian, thought we needed «action as well as conversation», and chided me for failing to put forward a shopping list of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list of global reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.

I do think that as Labour bloggers we need to reflect on our priorities... and my post was really a way, perhaps too heavy - handed, of prompting some reflection on whether we have these right.

THere was me thinking the next few years were going to be miserable, and we were going to have to fight tooth and nail to maintain any semblence of quality to our lives, and it turns out all that needed to happen was that we should wait for some clean shaven, well groomed fabians and the labour party to come save us.

... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al) as an example of Labour «selling out», she mentioned it as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?

Speaking to PoliticsHome later, the backbencher added: «I think the Labour party needs to hold a mirror up to itself and ask if we really want our events to resemble Trump rallies where journalists are booed and hissed at for doing their job.

However, Blunkett said that Labour needed to spend more time focusing on its own problems before thinking about the next election:

If you want to make common cuase with Labour's social liberasl, as I hope you will, then I think you need to be more willing to give your own party — and the Coalition government — some stick.

I think the key lessons for Labour from this by - election are not about whether «One Nation Labour» is reaching «southern voters», or whether Labour needs to adopt policy x, y or z. Instead, the Eastleigh result poses two questions which Labour need to consider:

I tried to indicate the vacuousness of Alan Johnson's Labour in For Britain as a way of saying «This is not serious, we need to hear the arguments for and against in a way that helps us think for ourselves».

If the Labour leadership campaign has proved anything it is that there is need for a change in economic thinking if those policies to be offered in 2020 by all parties — but most especially those on the left — are to resonate with people anxious for change.

This event will explore the potential opportunities for Blue Labour thought in the party, and the need for a re-examination of its values in a changed political landscape.

Following Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking.

To achieve this some in Labour will need to understand their party does not have a monopoly on progressive political thought.

«We in the Labour party need to think about the country.

Labour will need thinking «outside the box» if it is to have a chance of remaining in government after the next election, but as a Labourite I'm not convinced this would work.

Thirdly, I think there is a lot to be learned from Catholic Social Teaching, and Labour needs to ensure that it appeals to people who are not public sector workers.

Some good thoughts, although I do wish Labour MPs would express some anger over the fact that we now have a Gov that includes Osbourne, May, IDS, Hague et al... Yes I understand you probably need a rest but c» mon, let's have some of that fire in the belly attitude that Brown -LRB-!)

To understand where Labour needs to change, I think we need to look more closely at what was going on before the crisis.

«There is good Ed Miliband and bad Ed Miliband, and we need good Ed Miliband — the friend of Stewart Wood and Marc Stears [two free - thinking aides, both Oxford academics]-- to triumph,» The Times quoted a Labour source saying a couple of months ago.

So yes I think the Labour party can win, but we need a really clear strong message.»

But Labour need to think about what they can and can't demand from the Lib Dems, and the Lib Dems need to think about what they might want and be able to demand if — as expected — their numbers are significantly diminished.

Some thought after the election that the party needs to be more radical to counter Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.

However, if Labour is to start winning over the doubters, it needs to take the initiative on these things, rather than indulge in wishful thinking about a front - loaded political deal.

Most dangerously of all, they think the coalition will prove so unpopular that Labour will win the next election almost by default, without needing to change.

I think that it will not be long until Britain remembers why it needs a Labour party, if only we can remember why it needs a Labour party.

We need a commanding narrative which is going to persuade our voters - they're just fed up that they don't feel the Labour party is strongly enough supporting their interests, and I think they're right.»

Further to this, I think, now that we have the space between elections Labour needs to think of ways to invigorate the apathetic and disillusioned voters.

I think the main task for labour is to convince people of the economic case for their plans to increase spending and why austerity measures need to be less and how this relates to the national debt.

Mr Harris added: «I am raising the possibility - the very slim possibility of my candidacy - because there are ideas that I have that I think the party should at least be debating, because by the time the next Scottish Parliament elections come up in 2016, we need to know what type of party Scottish Labour will be.»»

How about that guy who stood for election on the basis that we «need a living breathing party ``, who thought last time round «Labour felt as if it was in government despite its members, not because of them ``?

We will always need a party to take over when the Tories become old tired and useless, it may take a few terms but it will happen and then labour will win one or two terms and then think they are back have made it the Tories are gone only to find it's wrong.

He now needs to do the same in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, where years of infighting, and poorly thought through interventions from the Labour Party had led to a febrile increasingly combustible mix.

The new Parliamentary Labour Party will be slim, with maybe no more than 150 members, and it will need someone who can reconcile and unite, who can think anew the theory for a 21st - century social democracy, and who can be an internationalist rather than a small Englander.

Smith added: «I think my feeling is Jeremy Corbyn needs to bear his share of the responsibility for the way in which he led the EU referendum campaign from a Labour perspective.»