Sentences with phrase «unelectable blairbot»

John Hewson's public denunciation of Peter Costello ««Lazy, disloyal, no balls, unelectable»» is one of the more effective examples of the genre I've seen *.

And then there is independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who, as a socialist, is unelectable.

Sheepish, charming, boyish, scary, this unelectable lawmaker is a piece of work, and watching other characters respond to him, particularly those in the black community, gives the film a very amusing edge.

Those many Labour MPs who lacked the guts to oust Brown last year despite regarding him as unelectable may finally move — now that it's too late.

New Labour could only win Elections — if the Conservatives conveniently make themselves 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».

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

By taking the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable as a given, without needing to interrogate it, commentators are then free to debate questions in terms of «Will this unelectable man win the leadership election?»

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.

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

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.

There are those who say they would vote for Jeremy but think that he would be unelectable, forgetting of course that people have left the party and others did not vote because New Labour are no longer relevant.

The person dismissed as «unelectable» and «not prime ministerial material» somehow finds himself in charge of the party out in front, according to YouGov polling.

«Labour is unelectable in 2020 with Jeremy Corbyn as leader» (and is thus by implication electable under a different leader)

Though his reluctance to compromise is partly why critics claim he's unelectable as Prime Minister.

Though ours is a parliamentary, not a presidential system, it is hard to see Labour winning an election with an unelectable leader.

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.

He's more unelectable than Neil Kinnock was; and Kinnock had considerable powers of oratory, and didn't lack political courage.»

Some argue that he was willing to help Brown in 2008, even though he feared he was unelectable, because he felt guilty for backing Tony Blair for the party leadership in 1994 when Brown was a candidate for the position.

I'd be utterly ashamed of simply asserting that a party that was IN POWER just six years ago is now unelectable, and if I actually believed it (as you say you do) I'd be even more embarrassed of supporting them.

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

The Labour Left for the past two years have had to endure ridicules, being told we represented the «loony left», and that Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable, or that he would destroy the Labour party.

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).

While Corbyn's win over his contender Owen Smith was by a hugely significant margin, once again trumpeting his popularity, people sasying they feel Corbyn is unelectable as Prime Minister.

There is a possibility that the penny may finally drop with its critical soft left segment that the current configuration is truly unelectable and that John McDonnell or Diane Abbott can not possibly rescue it.

Lizzy Salander, the unelectable Corbyn won his seat in 1983 — on the back of Labour's «longest suicide note in history».

The Blairites keep bleating that Corbyn is unelectable but why simply elect another Tory government with a «Labour» tag?

The New Labour architect told the magazine: «We are in a situation now where he is unelectable in the country but unassailable in the Party».

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...»

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.

And this makes him unelectable.»

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».

He was often dismissed by former congressman Rick Lazio, the party's designee, as an unelectable gadfly, putting forth no substantive solutions atop his bombastic rants.

I remember how in the 1990s how the tabloids demonized the Conservative party nearly every day rendering it unelectable.

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

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.

«We have an unelectable leader, and if we lose elections then the price of our failure is paid by the working people of this country and their families who do not have a government to stand up for them.

He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).

(On the Jeremy Corbyn Facebook page, no one can hear you scream «unelectable».)

Bill Clinton wins saying to the left of the party, «You are unelectable.»

Nelson got lucky in 2006 when Republicans nominated the unelectable Katherine Harris.

I am not afraid that Corbyn will lead Britain to similar ruin because he is simply unelectable.

He is unfit to lead his party and he is unelectable by an electorate that has just voted for Brexit.

Still waiting for a response to the points made against Corbyn, essentially that it doesn't help those in need of a Labour government to select an unelectable leader.

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

Owen Smith is a slightly less unelectable Blairbot.

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.

Angela Eagle is an unelectable Blairbot.

One hack suggested that many Labour MPs see the leader as «somewhere between an unelectable joke and a threat to national security».

Jones resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, along with dozens of her colleagues, in June 2016 and, in calling Corbyn «unelectable», also urged him to resign as Labour leader.