Sentences with word «unelectable»

Labour is going to be in thrall to the nutters like Bob Crowe in the Trade Unions, as they will be paying the bills, and will become as unelectable as the Tories were for years.

In a spirit of non-partisanship I will point out that the Tories have had their share of unelectable leaders such as IDS and Howard.

All that has happened is that the hapless Owen Smith's pathetic «I'm a Bevanite» Summer long Leadership challenge will now be simply dismissed by the Right as «just part of an endless process of sabotage and disruption, to make a Left oriented Labour Party unelectable».

Michael Foot was winning till the Argentine War started; the Left is far from unelectable in Scotland, and crucially, Blair governments and Labour since have garnered votes from a smaller proportion of the electorate each time.

All those Tories who have paid their # 3 in the hope of making Labour unelectable for a generation by voting in Corbyn as leader

It's them and their cowardly antics that are making Labour unelectable — and the public know it and are disgusted by it.

Just watch this all explode in the republicans» faces for throwing a bunch of unelectable candidates into the mess too early.

In the end the Tory popular vote was just two percent ahead of Labour's and they lost 13 seats against a leader thought to be completely unelectable even by Labour MPs.

Well that's pretty much what all the main political parties are doing in the run - up to the general election — thanks to the rise of unelectable and unaccountable think - tanks.

Sekula Gibbs was widely regarded as unelectable by Republicans due to her brief but tempestuous time in office following the resignation of former congressman Tom DeLay (R).

Owen Smith is a slightly less unelectable Blairbot.

«But now as waiting lists get longer through lack of Tory investment in the NHS, more people die waiting for their operation, at about the same rate that Corbyn and his fellow travellers make Labour more unelectable.»

This is the only way to stop Labour from becoming unelectable and at the same time show the puplic another side of Labour showcasing the next generation of Labour leaders.

But this primary challenge to moderates in moderate districts from unelectable far rightwingers is the wave building and the pattern that the Beltway Bubblers don't see coming.

Central to the Tory election campaign is the idea that Miliband is simply unelectable as prime minister.

We are now unelectable.

In other words, the only acceptable Republicans are unelectable Republicans.

This has everything to do with allowing unelectable and unelected officials — and the interests they serve — to achieve political results that could not be secured at the ballot box...»

Box CEO Aaron Levie declared Trump «the scariest person in America,» «obviously unelectable,» and compared Trump's debate performances to «someone who's drunk at trivia night at a bar.»

In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, a wealthy New Yorker, broke with the Republican «establishment» which he criticized for being in the pocket of big business, and formed the «Bull Moose» Party (which split the vote and paved the way for an otherwise unelectable Woodrow Wilson).

Rob Boston, of Americans United, tells us that five members of our founding generation — Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine — were so religiously unorthodox as to be unelectable today.

Nearly half of evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.

However, he has also denied evolution, called Obamacare «the worst thing since slavery» and also compared homosexuality to bestiality, positions that make him largely unelectable in a general election.

Corbyn is not only unelectable but is unable to respond to the new public mood.

Moving towards Super Tuesday, Romney's strategy is clear — focus on the economy when he makes his own pitch, leave it to his Super PAC «Restore our Future» to spend millions hammering Santorum and Gingrich with negative advertising while his various elite backers brief against them as unstable, not serious, unelectable etc, and count on his organizational strength to swing things his way.

So, will the austerity programme of the Cameron Government make the Tories unelectable for a generation?

«The Labour party has sponsored a culture of Cash for Influence, and has promoted unelectable individuals to the peerage so as to get them into the Cabinet.

The contest was propelled into the national spotlight less than two weeks before the March 6 primary when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took the unusual step of releasing opposition research on Moser, whom they considered unelectable in November.

The real issue is that his strategy makes the party unelectable because it is in many aspects undesirable.

This is not a foolproof measure: personal popularity rating can mislead us into thinking a party is unelectable if its leader is unpopular.

Repeatedly, commentary suggests that Corbyn's sartorial and lifestyle choices make him seem weird — and decidedly unelectable.

Move up quietly in the polls — with Mitt Romney sitting at a third of the vote, Palin unelectable and Tim Pawlenty drifting near the margin of error, Pataki could televise his way into second or third place in Granite State polls by midsummer.

And I am sure he will say anything — it will be Tony and Paddy writ large and see the definitive end of the Lib Dems who will be utterly unelectable and discredited.

Talking specifically about Jeremy Corbyn, she said: «It's been journalistically fascinating to see this shift from someone who everyone thought was beyond unelectable, was a joke.

I'm old enough to remember Labour being unelectable through Hatton etc..

Their party was unelectable when they were led by William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.

His statement, in effect declaring Brown unelectable, will further weaken the prime minister's waning authority and takes the challenge to his leadership to a dangerous level.

Some may feel compelled to support them because they think Labour will be unelectable without them.

Few of these particularly virulent critics seem interested in understanding members» reasons for selecting an outsider backbencher they've repeatedly been told is entirely unelectable.

Meredith Kelly, a party spokeswoman, explained the move saying the committee wants to «ensure that there's a competitive Democrat on the ballot» in November, the implication being that Culberson and Republicans would use the same material to make Moser unelectable.

Many in the PLP genuinely believe Labour will be unelectable unless it pledges cuts in benefits, or curbs on immigration, and are now struggling to resolve the contradiction of convincing the membership to want the same things that they think the electorate wants.

new labour have bought the labour party to the brink of extinction in only twenty shorty years and made it practically unelectable.

In the Times a few days ago, Adam Boulton speculated «If the Tory civil war rages on, Jeremy Corbyn may not be so unelectable after all, especially if he can forge some kind of red - tartan coalition».

It is the soft left that is deeply unelectable and are deeply incapable of building a winning coalition in this country.

Had this film been more realistic in creating a believable way to convey its socialist message, Beatty could have pulled it off, but in insisting on focusing on a character that becomes in reality unelectable, it loses any foothold on credibility and the farcical nature of the film loses its power.