Sentences with phrase «vote labour these days»

It; s getting harder and harder to find a reason to vote Labour these days.

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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.

The voting period for the Labour leadership will open in mid-August and close on 10 September, with the winner announced at a special conference two days later.

After a series of terrible polls for Labour in recent days, Corbyn told MPs he planned to enthuse people to vote for the party through the use of «online media».

Labour's share of the vote in Moray slipped by 3.3 % on polling day, with the Tories coming second to the SNP.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

Earlier in the day Mr Keal urged Labour supporters «to vote tactically to help deliver a shock result in Thirsk and Malton».

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

yes i know New labour is better off without me and I agree... sadly for me and brown to day selling new labour, the majority not the minority a well known BNP speak, I going to vote for the Tories.

Though normally voting with the Labour Whip, Thornberry voted against her party's government on national security matters, regarding the detention of terror suspects without charge for 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006, on the same matter for 42 days in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, and against the renewal of Trident.

For starters, he was one of the Labour rebels who voted against Tony Blair's 90 - day detention policy, back in 2005.

[99] On the same day, Labour polled ahead of all other parties at the local elections, winning 31 % of the vote and taking control of six additional councils.

So many of those who have since tried to evaluate Benn's speech have also commented on how difficult it is to see both why he selected the «St. Chrispin's Day» speech as his strategy and also why so many Labour MPs voted for simplistic bombing as a solution.

The English Democrats believe that violence should never undermine the democratic process of our nation, also with the newly selected Labour candidate never having received any votes, it was only right that the people of Batley and Spen should have a choice on election day.

In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.

The other big news in the last seven days is that the Labour Party have now officially come out against the possibility of a formal coalition with the SNP, in part to reduce their vulnerability to the Conservatives adopting a «Vote Ed, get Alex» strategy.

The SNP's Martyn Day effectively reversed the Labour and SNP position in the Westminster constituency last year, winning 52 % of the vote (Labour's Michael Connarty had won 50 % to the SNP's 25 % in 2010), so Angela has something of an uphill battle to defeat Fiona.

We knew we were going down; but, as in 1992, we hoped that when it came to polling day, stubby pencils would hover over the box next to the Labour candidate on the ballot paper, and people would decide to «play safe» and vote Conservative.

I posted on a thread about Labour the other day that I wouldn't vote Labour unless they supported the Chagos Islanders going home but I have to admit, I don't know what the Green Party policy is regarding them — Miss Berry, do you know?

But the government could lose the vote on a «programme motion», which limits debate on the bill in the Commons to 14 days, because Labour will join forces with as many as 100 Tory rebels.

The final wording said that Labour would pilot secure systems for electronic voting and electoral registration on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday.

On enhancing democracy «The final wording said that Labour would pilot secure systems for electronic voting and electoral registration on polling day, and consider piloting elections on days other than Thursday».

On Polling Day activists will be making the final push to mobilise the Labour vote, from 7 am until 10 pm, when the polls close.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

It is now less than two weeks till election day and postal voting is commencing, so one would expect Labour's campaign to be focussed on maximising its vote.

«There's going to be some quite intense discussions over the next few days, I suspect, and I hope our party officials and our national executive will see sense on this and recognise that those people that have freely given of their time and their money to join the Labour party should be welcomed in and given the opportunity to take part in this crucial debate, whichever way they decide to vote,» he said.

Labour's leader - in - waiting, Alan Johnson, yesterday restated his proposal for an election day referendum on the alternative vote plus system — the one recommended a decade ago by a commission headed by Roy Jenkins, but then shelved by the Blair government.

The answer most Bristol Labour party members will be looking for, as they start to receive their all - postal ballot papers any day now, is why should a Bristol Labour party member vote for you to be their Labour mayoral candidate?

In the second, the leader put it to a vote at Labour's executive (carried 17 - 1) and two days later moved an emergency motion to the same effect at Labour's conference in Bournemouth (carried 2,413,000 to 170,000).

For example, would you like to see a tube full of people holding up Metro on polling day with «Vote Labour» in huge letters?

Labour was planning to vote against the programme motion, which allowed 10 days for line - by - line debate in a committee of the whole house, but party sources indicated around 20 - 25 days may be regarded as sufficient for the issues to be adequately aired.

On a day when the Labour leader needed to be picking up votes, Gordon Brown was forced to issue a succession of apologies after a gaffe in which he referred to a Labour - supporting Rochdale voter as «bigoted».

Ten days ago, Labour achieved the biggest increase in its share of the vote since 1945, and I would like to thank to all those who supported us and voted Labour.

Original proposals to extend the maximum detention time from 14 days to 90 were roundly rejected in the Commons by a vote of 322 to 291, with 49 Labour MPs rebelling.

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

Today isn't a day to vote simply for Labour but to vote for yourself & for your family pic.twitter.com / SyhjnkOcls

This time around there was much talk by election «analysts» that Labour's majority would be reduced to less than 3,000 votes, and that Ukip might even win the seat, ending Corbyn's regime before it had even reached 100 days.

Russell Brand has urged voters to back Labour in the general election - days after making it clear that he would not be voting himself.

I went campaigning with Labour the day before the vote and TBH I didn't really know myself, except that Labour were supporting remain.

In the regional list the poll reports Labour neck - and - neck with the Conservatives, both on 18 %, but dropping to 17 % for Labour and 19 % for the Tories among those who said they were likely to vote on the day.

[168] A final theory, put forward after the election, was the «Lazy Labour» factor, which claimed that Labour voters tend to not vote on polling day whereas Conservative voters have a much higher turnout.

The vote, on the last day of Commons business, was over the rules on electing Speakers and was seen by Labour as an attempt to oust John Bercow.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

Blair, as Jeremy pointed out, the days of chancellor, home sectretary foreign secretary being recognized as the top jobs are over, and Norman baker was a thorn in the side of May, Danny Alexander thorn in the side of Osbourne, and labour vote went up more in 2015 than the Tory one, and them winning in 2015 isn't relevant to theft they didn't win in 2010

However, on 6 July 2007, Welsh Labour Party members voted for a coalition with Plaid, which was followed by a similar result from Plaid Cymru members the next day.

Labour's panda strategy — relying on a core vote, bruised by austerity and better motivated than in the dog days of 2010, plus Lib Dem defectors and Tory defectors to UKIP — may be effective even if it is far from magnificent.

It adds: «The days when over 95 % of the electorate voted either Tory or Labour are long gone.

To cap it all, the high - profile Tory MP Enoch Powell intervened in the campaign in the final few days asking people to vote Labour, and so have a choice to withdraw from the Common Market in a planned referendum.

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

The Fine Gael - Labour government, alongside the main opposition parties, said it was confident Ireland would vote yes despite strong campaigning in the past few days by those opposed to same - sex marriage.