Sentences with phrase «white working class labour»

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

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Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

Unless Miliband could present the public with a bigger and more inspiring message, Axelrod told him, it would be impossible to regain the support of the white working - class voters who were deserting the Labour party.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

This is, of course, pure Labour spin, with Blears, under orders, going for the white working class vote.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

But they also, along with the likes of Phil Woolas and Gillian Duffy, demonstrate that Labour is in danger of becoming a party of the white working class.

For some of Labour's core white working class supporters, a defence of an outward - looking Britain would be seen as precisely the metropolitan elitism Farage is so adept at criticising.

'' [White working class people] would like the Labour leader and me to be cheering on the England rugby team... with a flag with a shirt and shorts drinking a beer like they're doing.

He said: «They're talking tough on the issue of immigration because the Labour vote among the white working class has dropped, and not all of them but some are turning to the BNP.»

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said that white working class voters and trade unionists had already deserted the party for Ukip, because of Labour's support for immigration.

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

John Mann told a meeting at Labour party conference that the party was losing the support of the white working class who were concerned about issues such as immigration.

Speaking on Tuesday evening, Mann argued that Labour would be «out of office for a long generation» if it did not work out how to win back the white working classes.

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Labour under Ed Miliband found this out to its detriment, despite the efforts of the so - called «Blue Labour» advisers who sought to address concerns of the white working class — a former Labour core constituency who feel abandoned by their old party and politicians.

They were talking about what Labour could do to win back the support of the white working class.

If labour lose certain seats we've got because the White working class, self employed man, witha St George's flag outside ina council home votes UKIP are you going to say it doesn't matter as that sort of chav stereotype, is something that we as labour supporters shouldnt want anyway

«I've got white working - class constituents who've always voted Labour, but they won't be voting for Miliband but for Ukip, because they feel he couldn't care less about them,» a backbencher said.

Blue Labour's relationship with working class populism: Blue Labour has the potential to gain support amongst white working class voters who usually stay at home on election day, by articulating populist themes.

Labour's Lord Ahmed accuses ministers of aiding the rise of Far Right extremists by neglecting the white working class and failing to control immigration - The Sunday Telegraph

John Mann MP has said that Corbyn must answer the, «Bolsover question» of why there were huge swings against Labour in white working class seats and said that Labour simply can not ever win a majority unless their concerns are heeded.