Sentences with phrase «traditional working class»

Working on both a small and large scale, the artist's ironic twists on traditional working class imagery and tattoo flash are brought to their most provocative levels yet.

He also warned that Labour had to rebuild its working class base of support following last Thursday's elections: «It's the middle ground that's actually remaining with Labour, it's the core traditional working class areas and votes that are moving away.»

People from traditional working class backgrounds that did the «Thatcher» thing and took advantage of right to buy years ago?

Lord Glasman advised the Ed Miliband on how to reconnect the party with its traditional working class Labour voters.

He said: «It sounds like at long last they've started to read the runes and realise that the biggest fall in support for Labour is among the traditional working class.

Crudely put, Britain is increasingly Southern and middle class; for Labour to win they need to appeal to southern, middle class voters as well as their traditional working class supporters.

«The Labour party began to leave me in a way, and I guess I was also increasingly disillusioned with the Blair project, particularly the way in which the reorientation of the party to the sudden mythical English middle - ground was leaving behind the traditional working class base of the party.

Writing on Twitter, he added: «With the sacking of Dugher, traditional working class Labour is dying.»

If middle class labour members continue to push progressive policies they may even lose even more of the traditional working class vote.

Mann's proposal comes amid criticism from some of the party's MPs that the Labour leadership is too London - centric and is losing touch with the party's traditional working class support base.

With Labour faced with another leadership election between two brands of liberalism, the gulf between the Labour Party and it's traditional working class base (and almost everyone else) has never been greater.

This is a group that is self - consciously patriotic, that holds traditional working class social views, that has seen little economic progress locally for decades and that has ensured a difficult economic downturn.

In traditional working class areas, the story that Labour betrayed its supporters is now gospel.

They certainly extend far beyond those goals which the traditional working class movement represented.

Not exact matches

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

Douthat and Salam's youth» they're among the brightest lights in the next generation of conservative writers» gives them a new perspective on the contemporary political scene, allowing them to step out beyond traditional conservative fixations on tax cutting and limited government» where the supposed Reagan solution is always the correct solution» and to offer incisive criticisms of how the Grand Old Party's ideology frequently serves as a blinder to effective policies for the working class.

Lee's seminal work, To Kill A Mockingbird — which illustrates themes of racial injustice and traditional class and gender roles — was...

He grew up in Justice, Ill., a working - class suburb on the fringe of Chicago, in a household headed by his stepfather, an ironworker, and his mother, a traditional homemaker.

I started out with simple beading projects after a one - hour class at a bead shop, then worked with silver clay, and then moved on to working with sterling silver and gold, using traditional silversmithing techniques.

They report three times the marital contentment of the next happiest group — working - and middle - class families who favor a traditional division of labor and have only one breadwinner.

On the other, we might consider it more at home with the working - class anti-immigrant grouping, suspicious of the changes to traditional ways of life that globalisation has wrought.

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

When the traditional party of working - class interests strays too far from that role, it allows nefarious interests the opportunity to plug the gap.

Blue Labour's thinking has included wide - ranging analyses but at its heart has remained a key insight: an all - out embrace of liberalism has alienated the Labour Party from its traditional working - class support.

Certainly, Labour constituencies see fairly high levels of UKIP support (notably at the recent Heywood & Middleton by - election), suggesting there is credence to the argument that Labour is losing its disaffected traditional and typically working class voters to UKIP.

The referendum result has exacerbated the theme of a developing fissure in Labour's traditional coalition of urban, liberal - minded and professional voters and former industrial working class communities.

Instead of following the traditional trickle down economics, Hawkins said he wants a «bottom - up» approach where the city helps low - income, working class people.

Labour seems to have decided in recent weeks that its first priority is to stave off the threat from Ukip to its traditional working - class vote, much of which supposedly voted to leave in the EU referendum.

Ukip is now building support in traditional working - class Labour areas.

The most senior Labour Brexiteer, Vote Leave chair Gisela Stuart, has warned the party's stance on the referendum is the «biggest recruiting agent for Ukip» imaginable, amid fears Nigel Farage will seek to capitalise on anxiety over immigration and challenge Labour's traditional dominance in working class communities across the midlands and the north.

Hunt says his party needs to understand not just how it failed to find an aspirational economic message, but also to appreciate the sense of loss and dislocation many traditional working - class communities have felt over the past two decades.

Whether Britain votes In or Out, the gap between the Labour leadership and the party's traditional, working class base is only getting bigger.

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Labour MPs in traditional, working class seats, say the issue of immigration is drowning out other arguments in the referendum campaign, including the remain campaign's central argument that leaving would hit jobs and economic growth.

- The UKIP vote came almost exclusively from the working class traditional Labour parts of the constituency (which did mostly vote leave but not emphatically so) and I suspect their ~ 5,000 votes last time split roughly 3,000 Labour, 2,000 Tory.

UKIP supporters are in many respects not traditional Conservatives - they are more working class and more disaffected from mainstream politics than typical Tory voters.

That is why some working class more traditional Labour voters defected to UKIP.

Even among the working class, the traditional iconography still beloved of the Labour left can be nostalgic and backwards looking.

But she pointed out the party still fared poorly in many traditional working - class areas, and refused to give all the credit for Labour's campaign success to the veteran leftie.

Authentic, working - class, traditional Labour voices.

This nourishing class will incorporate study of body structure, basic biomechanics, traditional asanas with Iyengar Yoga sensibility, vinyasa flow, breath work and meditation, and playful movement improvisations.

Where I work out, at Kaya Health Club [in Melbourne's Prahran], there's your traditional gym equipment, and yoga and Pilates, so you can go on the treadmill or do a bit of bike training then go and take a yoga class.

Primary series: Advanced class based on the traditional Ashtanga sequence Yin yoga: focuses on holding of the postures to work the deeper layers of the muscles.

Unlike traditional pilates, the Megaformer workout does not require you to start with private sessions — all classes are designed to work in a group setting.

The hoopdance classes will be divided into body isolation warm - up, hoop conditioning, hoop moves on and off the body, beginner tricks, traditional circus hula, hoopdance, vertical and horizontal planes, transitions, multiple hoops, floor work, hoop jams and hula - hoop meditation exercises.

Jeans made their way over to the USA with mass immigration from Europe's working class, and this traditional Euro - workwear was happily adopted in the «new country».

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

A new survey of 166,000 Britons found that instead of the three traditional classes — upper, middle, and working — that are prominent in shows like «Downton Abbey,» shown at left, now there are seven distinct strata.

I saw an example of the power of making this last school year when some of my students, who'd normally struggled in a traditional class, created things such as a working catapult fashioned out of popsicle sticks, rubber - bands and cardboard.