Sentences with phrase «what social democrats»

Amid the sound and fury of the supposed kulturkampf, which social democrats do need to adapt to, what will continue to be most decisive is what social democrats can do for back pockets.

Also, you suggest that PR would lead to better outcomes in terms of what social democrats care about.

Not exact matches

I've been a democrat for all of four months now, and what has surprised me the most is how passionately conservative evangelicals oppose social reforms that benefit the poor.

What evidence there is clearly does not support either the disciples of Hayek or Swedish social democrats; but neither, unfortunately, does the evidence locate the tilting - point.

The letter dovetails with what the IDC has long asserted in the Senate: Even with a workable Democratic majority of 32 members, the passage of a left - leaning agenda is not a guarantee given the conservative social views of some lawmakers, including Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat.

Interestingly, del Prado refers to what he believes the US can learn from Europe, and specifically from European social democrats.

Progressives are what Europeans would call social democrats, while liberals are center - left.

I think what we're seeing on the Republican side is just a long - overdue realization of the power of the social Web — a realization that many Democrats came to in 2006 and 2008 (and we've got the Congressional majority, not to mention the White House, to prove it).

It isn't that Republicans in general are using social media better than Democrats and thus garnering more followers online, it's that right now there's a better fit between what those candidates are offering and what the online base is looking for.

In Reinventing the State, twenty - one leading Liberal Democrats set out what social liberalism means in the 21st century.

ANGIE BRAY MP: Nick Clegg is probably a better partner for the Conservatives because instinctively he is a Liberal rather than a Social Democrat and doesn't carry the Labour baggage Vince Cable does from the past — what he needs is a bit of spine - stiffening to remember that sometimes.

«Some of the Democrats want to muddle the message with social issues that have nothing to do with jobs or what people are concerned about,» he said.

His predecessor, Paddy Ashdown, has described him as having moved the Liberal Democrats «to what you might call the right... The liberalism of the old Liberal party was a comfortable social liberalism, which didn't take into account economic liberty as well as social liberty.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

Obama intended the prospect of the fiscal cliff's dramatic mandatory cuts in social programs to extort progressive Congressional Democrats into agreeing to inflict severe austerity by voting in favor of what Obama hoped would be massive cuts in social programs and the safety net adopted by the Congressional «super committee» created by the same bipartisan austerity deal that created the «fiscal cliff.»

What is the Liberal Democrats» stall to be, if it is not a positive social Liberal blueprint for the future, different from the compromises necessary of coalition with George Osborne — the Coalition position?

The new Social Liberal Forum executive has published a joint statement on what we see are the key priorities for the next Liberal Democrat manifesto.

I do not propose to speak about what the NDC stands for, save to make the point that the Party had been in power for eight years and it was when they had lost power and were in opposition that they met and decided they were Social Democrats.

The question for many disillusioned social democrats (whether or not they were actually in the SDP or LibDems) is frankly whether Labour represents what they believe in.

So we know what Ed Balls, Guido Fawkes, David Ruffley, Douglas Carswell, Fraser Nelson, John Redwood, Liberal Democrats including David Laws... and the Centre for Social Justice think.

Frank Field and Michael Portillo both said tat it would be better for Scotland to go independent, Michael gove was described last year in a spectator article as the greatest leader Labours never had, portillos first political hero was Harold Wilson, and black Tory lord John Taylor said of Portillo that he was just pretending to be Thatcherite to further his career in the 80's So to take the view that there are some non Blairite, non Corbyinsta, EU skeptics who appeal to the Socially conservative, yet Social democrat view of politics, what was needed was a 42 year old, Admirer of Frank field and Michael Portillo, who was against Iraq, voted leave, and didn't back David miliband for leader in 2010

Hobhouse held out hope that Liberals and what would now be called the social democrat tendency in the nascent Labour party could form a grand progressive coalition.

Democrats quickly mobilized to draw attention to what they cast as out - of - the - mainstream positions espoused by Mr. Paul — from raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 to questioning the legality of the Americans with Disabilities Act — as they sought to discredit what Jack Conway, the Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, described in an interview as Mr. Paul's «narrow and rigid philosophy.»

Simply because most of what has been said in wrong and a cloak for social democrat values — doesn't mean that the converse is necessarily true.