Sentences with phrase «vote labour if»

The idea that the left lose Labour votes is simply nonsense, the fact is that we have not a left wing government since Harold Wilson, that since Blair New Labour has lost between 3 - 4 million voters, Left wing views actually resonate with the public, there were in the last four years polls taken that showed in the south east that 20 % of Tory commuters would vote Labour if they would nationalise the railways.

It is also a key part of making progress in Scotland — a November 2014 Survation poll found 27 per cent of SNP voters would be more likely to vote Labour if we committed to publicly owned Scottish rail services.

In this poll the adjustment has reduced the Conservative lead by 3 points; the unadjusted figures were CON 39 %, LAB 31 %, LDEM 21 %, but ICM has estimated that many of the people who said «don't know» would vote Labour if there was really a general election tomorrow, cutting the lead to 5 points.

We looked at people who told us they were certain to vote today, and would vote Labour if today's contest were a general election.

Vote Labour if you want a tax credit, a free bus pass, a social fund loan, or maybe a place on the New Deal.

In their favour I have to say that they are better than questions asking whether people are more or less likely to vote Labour if X was in charge, which people who would vote Labour anyway, or wouldn't vote Labour under any circumstance, still say more or less.

Most members of trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party would NOT vote Labour if a general election were held this week, according to... (Comments: 49)

I'd vote Labour if, and only if, they stood against the erosion of our liberty.

The broad strategy to win over Yes voters, however, is straightforward: vote Labour if you want to get rid of the Tories.

Not exact matches

We already know your tax will go up if you vote Labour on Thursday,» he said.

Labour MP Pat McFadden asked Davis whether there would be any circumstances where the government would go back to Brussels to negotiate a revised Brexit deal if Parliament decides to vote it down later this year.

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

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«If it becomes clear that the national interest which is stable and principled government can be best served by forming a coalition between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats, then I believe I should discharge that duty to form that government which would in my view command a majority in the House of Commons in the Queen's Speech and any other confidence votes.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

I asked Boris, tongue in cheek, if he voted with the Government against Labour's tax credits motion.

After Bercow intervenes, Cameron says the choice at the next election is simple: if you want to join the single currency or give power away, vote Labour!

If it were up to me it would all go away, because it makes the AV vote harder to win by pissing off the Labour party.»

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

MPs Gisela Stuart and Liam Byrne are expected to seek Labour's candidacy if the city votes to adopt the directly - elected mayor model in a referendum held alongside local elections on May 3rd.

Even if Lucas and every Labour MP were to vote for such an approach, it would not have the votes to carry.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

And now brown and Mandy run back to new labour to try and get the middle class to vote for it, new labour is nothing more then a Thatcherite party, and she lost and a Pray New labour is kicked out of power even if it means it never agains takes power

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

Finally, we need to question what may happen if Labour's share of the vote stays in the 20s.

A BBC projection highlighting how the results would look if they were repeated at a general election showed Labour would win 29 % of the vote, compared to the Tories 25 %.

and if New Labour believed in proportional mandate then they would not have been wrecking the country on a vote of a million less than David Cameron achieved and a smaller proportion.

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

According to our analysis of the 2002 election, a typical member of the labour force was only 4.7 percentage points more likely to vote for a center - right party if he was an insider than if he was an outsider (and this difference was not statistically signifi - cant).

Nevertheless, David Cameron said many Labour MPs felt a «conscientious belief that they signed up to a manifesto», and asked if it was right to ask them to vote against their consciences.

In the 2005 election Labour's Kali Mountford's majority shrunk to just 1,500 votes - 1,501, if you want to quibble.

After all, if you live in England and you are not on the hard left, it is hard to understand why you would vote Labour.

If Labour opposes a deal bringing back a Canada - type goods arrangement, the votes are probably there to defeat it.

We found some tentative evidence to suggest Labour voters had been less likely to actually vote than predicted but, even if this was the case, the effect would have been very modest.

But if we take English seats - Scotland's battle lines are different, while the politics of Plaid in Wales are complicated - and combine the Labour, Lib Dem and Green votes in each seat from 2015 on one side, and Tory and Ukip votes on the other, then the Tories in fact do better than before.

He dismissed shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry's comments yesterday that Labour would likely vote for the deal even if it only amounted to «blah, blah, blah» and insisted Labour won't support it.

But if the vote had been between two «alliances», the right - wing side would have won 349 in England alone - including sizeable majorities in once - safe Labour turf such as Walsall North, Dagenham and Rainham, and Wakefield.

Writing for The Guardian, Smith added: «In those circumstances, I do not feel I would have any choice but to vote against the government and, if needs be, the Labour whip.

Labour's Chuka Umunna, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron and Conservative MP Nicholas Soames argue that Vote Leave will be «complicit in a campaign that is increasingly inflammatory in tone» if it does not call for the film to be withdrawn.

If, say, the Labour Party won a majority vote in June, would they try to withdraw or backtrack on Article 50 (how they would do attempt it, or even if it's actually possible is another questionIf, say, the Labour Party won a majority vote in June, would they try to withdraw or backtrack on Article 50 (how they would do attempt it, or even if it's actually possible is another questionif it's actually possible is another question).

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

For sure, we don't know if the Ukip - mania will last for another two years; and if it does quite how that will play out in relation to the Tory / Labour / Lib Dem votes.

Clegg said he would not prop up Labour if it came third in the vote yet secured the most seats.

Furthermore, I can't see people taking very well to the Liberal Democrats supporting a Labour government (not that that would work, since there is still liberal elements in the Liberal Democrats, notably Nick Clegg) if as seems likely less than a quarter of the population votes for Labour.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Perhaps if you want more representation for Labour, you should contact the PLP and ask why not a single Labour MP voted for changing the system to AV?

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

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