Sentences with phrase «unelectable in»

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

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».

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.

Not exact matches

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 WilsonIn 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 Wilsonin 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).

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

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.

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.

Moser was viewed as an unelectable candidate but received a boost in fundraising after the intervention, and advanced to a May 22 runoff.

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.

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

Rather than spend time understanding why they have lost they have embarked on a leadership election campaign in which all four contenders are political nobodies and completely unelectable.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?»

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».

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.