Sentences with phrase «way labour needs»

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They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

Tal believes that improving participation rates in high - demand fields will likely require finding a way to identify emerging trends in labour market needs, as well as improved quality and equity of learning opportunities and increased resources.

The early stages of labour when you are confident you will be able to breathe your way through the pain of labour and will have no need for any drugs, this can change later on!

Of course, when a doctor is the one attending your birth, they sometimes like to think that you need to be assisted through your birth with their help, not the other way around, and thus they will deliver your baby to you once they've saved you from your strong contractions and prevented you from labouring too hard with all of their tools.

I do think that as Labour bloggers we need to reflect on our priorities... and my post was really a way, perhaps too heavy - handed, of prompting some reflection on whether we have these right.

David Blunkett said tonight that Labour and the Lib Dems need to «work out a way... of how we can work together.»

Now, with Labour scrambling around trying to find a way to win back voters, you are just as likely to hear someone on the left talking about cutting back benefits or the need to limit immigration as you are a Conservative or right - wing paper.

But in practice the difficulty for both the Tory and Lib Dem leadership of maintaining a deal to govern together means that the Conservatives will need to woo the Liberal Democrats in a way that Labour would not need to do were the arithmetic the other way round.

I tried to indicate the vacuousness of Alan Johnson's Labour in For Britain as a way of saying «This is not serious, we need to hear the arguments for and against in a way that helps us think for ourselves».

Labour does need to «TERRIFY» voters its the only way to regain people surport.

To succeed in becoming a part of the centre - left that can inspire its membership and gain public support Labour needs combine two things: being more ideologically rooted in clear values and principles with being decisively more pluralist and open in the way it does politics.

«Last week we announced our intention to limit access our labour market for Bulgaria and Romania when they join the EU in January next year and work is under way to introduce a points system to ensure that only people with the skills we need from outside the EU can come to this country.»

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

Labour needs to reinvent itself as a party of strong and clear principles, applied in a modern setting in ways that are relevant to the lives the people lead.

Accordingly, they expected the coalition government to prove so dreadful that people would soon see the error of their ways: Labour would not need to make any big changes in order to win the following election.

He equally needs to tackle significant anxieties about immigration and social security in a way that pleases voters but doesn't undermine Labour values.

The weekend's policy decisions - which will still need to be properly formulated in Westminster and then passed in the party convention - will probably find their way into the Labour manifesto.

Essentially, the kind of politics that Labour needs is one in which we allow more freedom to people in the way they find, articulate and fulfil left - of - centre politics.

Further to this, I think, now that we have the space between elections Labour needs to think of ways to invigorate the apathetic and disillusioned voters.

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

Absolutely, Pete, and in the same way that Harold Wilson said of the Labour Party that it needed two wings to fly — a Left and a Right wing.

Scottish Labour needs clarity over its key purpose and then needs to find a way of expressing it in language activists can explain and voters can understand.

By now you'll be on the point of spotting a trend, so we need not wait for Gordon Brown's memoirs to summarise the reactions of New Labour's senior figures to an account whose veracity none of them appears to dispute in any significant way.

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.

We need a proper economic vision for Wales from our Government — sadly Labour is falling way short of the mark.»

Smith added: «I think my feeling is Jeremy Corbyn needs to bear his share of the responsibility for the way in which he led the EU referendum campaign from a Labour perspective.»

Labour needs to unite middle and lower income earners — pointing out that the Tories are putting up taxes for most people but cutting taxes for the rich is a good way of doing this.

If Labour and LibDem wish to lance the conservatives on the issue of civil liberties, then they need to find a way of tying these two seemingly disparate threads together.

But if needs must, most in the Labour party would put the Liberal Democrats way ahead of the SNP in terms of desirable allies.»

«I think the most powerful argument for Labour in this election - because of the way the polls are, and the way the opinion polls are and the leadership issue - the most powerful argument for Labour is to say it's important for our democracy that the Government is held to account and needs a strong opposition.»

What is clear, though, is that we need less chatter from assorted Labour voices as to the way ahead and more national leadership from Miliband.

If the No camp is serious about winning this vote, it needs to actively think of ways to engage with Labour voters and this needs to happen sooner rather than later.

If it's in any way accurate, «winning» is not something Labour needs to worry about for quite some time.

«One of the problems with Prime Minister's Questions is the way Labour MPs behave, and if Owen Smith wants Jeremy Corbyn to score over Theresa May in Prime Minister's Questions he needs to talk to his colleagues,» she said.

Cameron and Clegg have both said that they see no need for a referendum on Lords reform, because voters backed the idea at the 2010 general election, but Labour are demanding one and, with Tory rebels threatening to support them, ministers may decide that granting a referendum is the only way to get the legislation through the Commons.

Calling Tory voters, the people Labour needs to win an election, accomplices to murder is quite a way to open a conversation about switching.

Both Ed and David Miliband have gone out of their way to portray themselves as pluralists who understand the need for Labour to connect with other progressive forces.

And to take the crucial next step on the path to electing a Labour government, led by Jeremy Corbyn, that will understand our way of life and deliver the real change we so desperately need.

It is clear a new model is needed and Labour needs to lead the way with a more pro-active and collaborative model.

«The only way to deliver the truly radical change that Scotland needs is to back Labour in Scotland.»

The Blair / Brown way of doing Labour politics is long gone and we need to let it go with fond memories and dignity.

then the unions need to put their oen candidates forward has most of this party has we now isnt a true labour party but sadly who do you vote for has its more the same i cant see a way forward but you state the monies from the election 1997 then this must haver been tory money has blair was maggies product put into lanour to take em to the tory lite whot ever i can not in all my days say to my friends vote for them has untill the tb of this party go back to their tory party jeff3

It argues the party needs to: `... stop patronising socially conservative Ukip voters and recognise the ways in which Ukip appeals to former Labour voters...»

Labour moderates need a new name (not Blairite or anything redolent of), philosophy (vintage in tapping into the same revisionist traditions as the Third Way, while also being thoroughly contemporary), and (having been comprehensively out organised by the left during the leadership election) structures.

What Labour or more accurately Tony Blair and Alan Milburn, then health secretary wanted is what Mr Lansley now aspires to create: a self - improving system run as a regulated market of competing providers driven by patient choice and commissioning in a way that no longer needs direct management from politicians and the health department.

That's happened because Ed's recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother's supporters, and some of Ed's people see a need to spin away the role played in Ed's victory by the two - thirds of the electorate who voted as union members, hence the suggestion that Labour «supporters» be added in some way to the electorate.

What Labour urgently needs to do is to find a way of managing and accommodating these large differences without further damaging itself, in the way today's Mori poll captures.

Miliband wants to talk about making government better, but he agrees that the state needs to do more, he just doesn't want Labour to frame the argument in that way.

The need for Labour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour to attract current conservative voters to win an election, let alone UKIP ones who had previously voted labour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coallabour, seemed important a year ago, now keeping current Labour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalLabour voters, from either holding their nose and voting Tory or Liberal Democrat, is more of a long way off goal, our core demographic of voters a year ago, were socially liberal, economically conservative, mainly pro EU, ones who would see the Liberal Democrats as a natural choice, many may have voted Libdem in 2005 and later, only to return to us due to the coalition.

The Labour party needs to split and so does the Conservative party, if they are to be in any way authentic.