Sentences with phrase «voted labour out»

Take it from a person that voted Labour out last G election!

Had they been so outraged at this coup, they could have voted Labour out in 2005

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«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

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.

She spoke after Labour, Tory and Green MSPs on Holyrood's Social Security Committee united in June to vote through a series of amendments to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Bill - including one by Green MSP Alison Johnstone requiring ministers to set out whether they will use new welfare powers to increase child benefit.

Colin Rallings and Mike Thrasher of Plymouth University point out that just 21.6 % of the electorate voted Labour in 2005.

I do not trust any party at the moment, Labour Tory Liberals, all are after the votes and the fact have gone out the window.

She challenged analysis that talked up Labour success at the election pointing out that the Conservatives piled on voters in many northern seats that had voted Leave, among older voters and among the working class.

How to campaign enough to ensure Labour supporters get out and vote without looking to be in partnership with those who seem to regard these very supporters with contempt?

That effectively rules the investigation out, given Labour has already made clear it will vote it down wherever possible in its bid to have a judge - led inquiry.

Those Labour people advocating primaries turn out to be the same people, on the Labour side, supporting the Vote for a Change campaign - except for Neal Lawson and John Harris.

All progressives with any common sense will get out and vote Labour, recognizing Labour is clearly the party of progress.

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

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

«Today I am setting out a positive agenda for Labour voters - reasons why Labour voters should vote Remain and the patriotic case for remaining in Europe.

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

With so much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play out.

The voting evidence suggests it is the logical one although I guess electoral reform will be the stumbling block - http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mpsee.php Still, it would give Labour the chance to demonstrate that the Lib Dems are essentially a party of the centre - right in a way that we are not, to renew our policies, and to reach out to those genuinely progressive MPs who have, by some mischance, ended up in the Lib Dems.

In her speech, she singled out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: «In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU.

The Labour Party voted in favour of quitting the EU, but seven out of ten Brits voted to stay in in a referendum.

It's possible the EU referendum has helped demonstrate that democratic votes can genuinely change things, and that Corbyn's Labour seems different enough that it's worth going out and supporting.

However, polling from the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary Institute, conducted in December, shows that eight out of ten Labour members either agree or strongly agree with having a second vote.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

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.

But until the SNP rule out abstaining on such a vote, Scottish Labour do seem to be entitled to make their argument.

The 2010 Labour voters who voted Yes and now intend to vote SNP are noticeably different from other 2010 Labour voters in their responses to a variety of BES questions, but they particularly stand out in two principle respects.

Tom Watson, the shadow culture secretary and deputy Labour leader, has put out a statement following the vote against a Leveson two inquiry accusing the government a «shameless capitulation to press barons».

Although Birmingham itself voted in favour of Labour's Sion Simon, the result was closer than you would expect for a city that currently sends only one Tory out of ten MPs to Parliament.

While early predictions that Labour could take Wandsworth proved over-optimistic, Labour sources pointed out that a few hundred votes in several swing wards could have clinched it.

As Anthony Wells points out, it is somewhat inevitable that Labour should be doing worse where they started stronger because there are some places where they didn't have 15 points to lose, but it might also be partly because Ashcroft only polled in Labour seats where the Yes vote was relatively strong in the independence referendum.

Turkey's don't vote fr Christmas so why would Labour MPs vote for a system which would wipe out many of them and permanently force them into a coalition if they want to hold power?

And yet, the Labour Party in the past has successfully gone out to the British countryside to court the rural vote and build the foundations of support.

Because Labour could, potentially, win if the previously Labour but now non-voters can be persuaded to start turning out and voting Labour again, but only if the non-voting support base is fairly large, and without that sort of analysis over larger areas it's hard to judge — it's definitely partially true in my ward, Labour had disappeared electorally years ago, but won the seat in 2012, despite most other parties getting similar votes to normal (and our support mostly going to an Independent we were tacitly backing).

And the Lib Dems would be out of their minds to go into coalition before the election — «vote Lib Dem, get Labour» did for them in 1992, and it wasn't even true then.

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

In particular Cameron will say that «if you want Labour out, you need to both vote Tory and vote «no» in the referendum.

Remember that only a few months ago Ed Balls said Labour voters were justified in tactically voting for Libdems in areas where Labour was uncompetitive to keep the Tories out.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who allowed Labour MPs a free vote amid deep divisions in his party, warned against an «ill - thought - out rush to war».

Out of 229 Labour MPs, there were 172 who voted against him, 40 who backed him and four spoilt ballot papers.

The Leave vote gives Labour the opportunity to look forward, set out positive vision for the country, think creatively about our future, and excite people, including its withering working - class base.

In the London election, roughly equal numbers of those voting for other candidates turned out to have a Labour or Tory preference - so those 250,000 voters got to count in the final outcome - though the result was unaffected by transfers.

Labour MPs shouted «shame» as Hague indicated his approval for the vote to go ahead - and applauded and cheered as the result of the division was read out.

The research forecast that the SNP would get 53 seats, which together with Labour's 268 would leave the two parties just short of the 323 votes needed to lock - out a Conservative government.

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.

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

But unless Conservative MPs turned out en masse to vote against the Party's right - an unlikely course of action, given the»22 Executive results - Liberal and Labour support for less spiky candidates provides the only comprehensible explanation of the results.

The Norwich South MP said Labour MPs should reach out to colleagues in other parties on issues like voting reform.

«There was a sort of hidden army of people who were so worried about Labour that they literally came out to vote for the first time.»

I might have to consider voting labour for the first time in my life if it might keep you guys out.

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.