Sentences with phrase «want coalition with»

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

In addition it was increasingly clear during the negotiations that many senior members of the Labour party did not want a coalition with us and preferred the option of going into opposition.

Nick Clegg clearly wants another coalition with the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

Leaders need to work with others and build coalitions if they want to get things done.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

«With this new Canadian cleantech coalition, we want to create a competitive advantage for both the ecosystem and our country by focusing business, investors, strategic partners and governments on a strategic plan to promote clean technologies, nationally and internationally» said Denis Leclerc, President and CEO of Écotech Québec.

Preemptive Love Coalition wants to empower women like Sozan and set these women who ISIS would like make invisible free to care for their kids with dignity and long - term security, so these mothers can provide food, water, shelter, clothes, and healthcare for themselves.

I am not sure what this was supposed to mean other than I should have just put up with a pastor who had secret agendas and formed coalitions against people he wanted out of his new church.

Although presented with a coalition focus, the information is useful for lactation consultants or other breastfeeding advocates in the hospital that are wanting support with improving maternity practices and breastfeeding initiatives.

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

The most chilling moment on election night was hearing Theresa May, when asked what she now wanted a Conservative government to do that it had been prevented from doing by having to work with the Lib Dems in coalition, answer that her first priority was to pass legislation that would empower the security forces and the police to conduct surveillance on the scale needed to keep the country safe.

Anyone who wanted a break from the coalition's shambles only needed to look to the Olympics, which was being met with Londoners» usual cheery optimism.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister, or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Liberal Democrats, who want to re-open the divisions of the referendum, and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.

«Coalition leaders have shined a spotlight on HS2 and walked into it, wanting to be associated with the project, but come next week they could find that they have linked themselves to an illegal project which everyone will see is being based on nothing more than sentiment and spin.»

For starters, the unions got a lot of what they wanted this year with the GOP - IDC coalition in control of the Senate.

If you want to make common cuase with Labour's social liberasl, as I hope you will, then I think you need to be more willing to give your own party — and the Coalition government — some stick.

When Sen. Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

Some MPs and Party members fear that David Cameron doesn't really want progress on this front at all, because he's hoping for a joint Coalition front at the next election, and therefore a joint manifesto with the Liberal Democrats.

Clegg wanted Cable to speak in favour of the call not to break from the coalition's agreed deficit reduction plan, with his aides pointing out that the deputy prime minister expected all Lib Dem MPs to turn up for the vote.

I think, if the LibCon coalition doesn't happen, Labour will not want to share opposition duties with the Libs, and instead will play the «vote Labour to get rid of the Tories» card to death in October, crushing the Libs.

Continue reading «Party members want a say in any decision about a second Coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2015»»

Mr Lidington was also warm about the relationship that the Coalition wants with Baroness Ashton, the «High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy»:

As much fun as it would be to throw out the Tories and their coalition partners after one term, would replacing them with Labour achieve what we want?

While the coalition wants to cut benefit bills, Labour seems to oppose all the welfare reforms — which are popular with the great majority of voters.

Despite the Senate contretemps this spring, most voters say they want the coalition to continue, the Siena poll found, with just 22 percent backing full Democratic control.

The prime minister is in the difficult position of not wanting to harm relations with his coalition partner while also desperately trying to avoid a Conservative defeat in Eastleigh, which goes to the polls today.

The Tory leader was keen to downplay the idea that polls suggest the country wants a «Cleggified Cameron», saying voters might well end up with a Lib Dem - Labour coalition instead.

He said he needed more details about how the coalition would work, but emphasized that he does not want to negotiate details of government with a committee rather than a single leader.

«Post-November, we want to start a new coalition with the Democrats... once the dust settles on the primaries, we'll talk about November.»

Flanagan and his members also have to contend with the pressure by liberals who want to see a group of eight breakaway Democrats led by Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein quit their leadership coalition with the GOP and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

We are four months in to the coalition and not a single MP wants to break with the Tories.

NEC members asked for an inquiry into blacklisting, highlighted the unprecedented growth in inequality under the coalition, and wanted clear dividing lines with the Tories on welfare and on austerity.

When Senator Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate called the Independent Democratic Conference, who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

Clegg, who is passionately pro-European, wants to drive a hard bargain with Cameron on the EU and believes that speculating about a future coalition risks creating the impression that the party is taking the voters for granted.

«There was disquiet earlier in the year when Ed Balls talked about wanting to stick with the current coalition government policies on pay restraint, in particular, over this next period,» he says at the TUC stand.

With Howard Reed on why the coalition's benefit reforms are a speeded - up version of Thatcherism; Kate Bell on the arguments for investing in childhood; Andrew Simms asks «do we want to grow forever?»

Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said last night on CapTon that while he did not disagree with the Assembly's action on the DREAM Act, he doesn't want the Senate to follow suit.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadWith increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leadwith record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electionCoalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electioncoalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electioncoalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo probably wanted to tout the three years of on - time budgets, but the garish federal corruption case in the city that's infected the Senate coalition in Albany will likely have to be deal with as well.

«We want an overall majority, we don't want to be having a coalition with anybody because we want to be in an overall majority... It's not a sensible question: it's put forward by the Tories, who want to talk up the SNP because they don't think they can talk up their own record and it's put up by the SNP because they know people in Scotland hate the Tories, justifiably.

«We are focused on winning a Labour majority government and let me say this - we do not want, we do not need and we do not plan to have any coalition with the SNP, we plan to make sure that we focus on the issues and win a Labour majority government.»

Kennedy: Wants electoral reform for councils and Westminster, and coalition government with Labour when shine comes off Blairism.

The coalition also wants school districts with 51 - 100 or more employees to continue to participate in an experience - rated health care consortium or trust, a measure she said will save school districts and taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

Freed of the shackles of coalition, he wants to send a much more stringent message about who the State is prepared to deal with.

The Orange Book became the reference point for those who wanted to resist a drift towards Labour, in the days when a coalition with the Conservatives was unimaginable.

«Basically, the focus was to form a coalition of Democrats and the non-enrolled along with the Republican base who were crying out for change and wanted to be part of the solution,» said Gallo.

(We want to) replace it with an in - large, life - size, identical replica of a great American,» Samuel A. Herbert from the Coalition to Save MLK Park said...