Sentences with phrase «with labour supporters»

Their voters may be Conservative - disposition people that have had a bad experience with Conservatives, or Labour - disposition people that have had a bad experience with Labour supporters, but the motive force for their activists has always been electoral reform.

Again, Lib Dem voters line up with Labour supporters; those who take sides divide two - to - one in saying the rate helps the economy, while Tories divided two - to - one in saying it does harm.

Totally different when a Labour spokesman (or Green Party for that matter) had his unchallenged say, packing debates with Labour supporters... When it comes to Islam you also pack debates so they are over represented and few opponents such as in «The Big Questions».

Continue reading «Although Ed Miliband is less popular with Labour supporters than David Miliband, he insists his leadership is «winning the battle of ideas»»»

Yanis Varoufakis has won plaudits for his appearance on the BBC's Question Time programme last night - with some Labour supporters even suggesting he could be their party's saviour.

Reported the attack on car to police.Kids are shaken.One attacker wearing Labour rosette & stood with Labour supporters at polling station.Thankyou for supportive comments.I'm fine, was not in car - my brother & kids were.Police were nrby & have reported.Upsetting but not deterred.»

Not exact matches

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who is half - heartedly campaigning for the U.K. to remain the E.U., is almost certainly another closet Brexit supporter, a Socialist who sees the E.U. as the stooge of global capitalism, eroding workers» rights with its neo-liberal focus on the Single Market.

Like Cameron, Miliband sounded like a lover pleading for his partner not to leave, telling an audience of Labour supporters near Glasgow that he supported Scotland with «head, heart and soul,» and promising change if the union stuck together.

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

2011's was arguably worse, filling the hall with the unspeakable horror of eager young Labour supporters explaining why Ed Miliband is so «fresh» and dynamic».

The MP is an ardent New Labour supporter with a majority of nearly 12,000 and has served since the 1999 by - election.

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

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?

10:54 - Hague gives way to Keith Vaz, another Labour supporter of a referendum, who asks whether Cameron will be able to cope with the renegotiations between 2015 and 2017.

By the time historically Labour supporters cast their «yes» votes, they had been led to conclude that support for independence was incompatible with support for the Labour Party.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The latest Ipsos Mori political monitor found that half of Labour supporters are now dissatisfied with the way that Corbyn is doing his job as Labour leader.

If he keeps his seat then Lewis is fancied by many Labour supporters to be the next leader, with Guardian columnist Owen Jones among his key supporters.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

This is the highest level yet of dissatisfaction with Corbyn among Labour supporters since he became leader in September 2015.

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

The Islington North MP retains the support of 41 per cent of Labour supporters, with nine per cent answering don't know.

2) Association with the Lib Dems — this was always going to make it into something of a referendum on Nick Clegg and makes it very hard to have a coherent Yes movement when Labour supporters of AV are furious at the Libs and they in turn are arrogantly insulting to Labour.

However, by the end of the month, the lead has fallen to just 6 points, with YouGov analysis showing a big shift in support among Labour supporters.

1) You apparently make a very real, and in hindsight materiel threat to report and disenfranchise Labour supporters, and they or members acting in their defence (and Labours interests and honour) respond with immaterial threats of possible de-selection.

Labour's main enemy would have been complacency so Sawford and Miliband continually urged their supporters to turn out, even in the face of polling by arch-Tory Lord Ashcroft, showing Labour with a 22 point lead.

... The YouGov poll, commissioned by the Labour Uncut blog, shows that a majority (53 per cent) of current Tory supporters believe their party has got better since the last election, with only 11 per cent saying it has got worse.

It follows a campaign by Momentum and other supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to decrease the threshold after Corbyn, unpopular with most MPs, struggled to pass it during the 2015 Labour leadership election.

It is encouraging to see the labour leadership inching closer to alignment with ithe vast majority of its members and supporters in the country.

Labour's natural supporters were unimpressed with the austerity - lite alternative offered by the Labour Party.

As Corbyn goes to battle with Owen Smith for the Labour crown, a whopping 180,541 people have applied to become registered supporters - netting the party a cool # 4.5 million.

After a disastrous conference speech, even his supporters run out of patience with the Labour leader

Few would query the proposition that constituency Labour party groups should have a voice in how their parliamentary representatives cast their votes, but what has caused very considerable ill - feeling has been widespread suspicion that Momentum, a recently - formed group of Corbyn supporters, orchestrated a campaign to pull MPs into line — with the threat of deselection if they failed to do so.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

In fact, a quarter of Labour voters (and more than half of UKIP supporters) say either that they are satisfied with Cameron or that they prefer him to the alternative.

Ed Miliband has announced that to counter the Conservative party's financial advantage during the 2015 election campaign Labour will outnumber them in supporters out on the streets engaging with voters — and will benefit accordingly.

For example Gillian Duffy could have been categorised as a «labour supporter», but as demonstrated by her confrontation with Gordon Brown, her views were not really endorsed all that much by the labour party apparatus.

A third of Labour supporters voted «Yes», with many members leaving the party in frustration with its position on the referendum, a position which involved little consultation.

In the weeks leading up to the result I conducted some polling to compare the views of Labour members and union supporters with those of voters who moved away from the party at the last election.

Labour have not come out with a policy on the referendum and there is no concensus among labour supporters about it, or much interest Labour have not come out with a policy on the referendum and there is no concensus among labour supporters about it, or much interest labour supporters about it, or much interest in it.

The party saw huge numbers of their supporters reject their calls to back the union, with much of the shift to «Yes» in the final weeks coming from current and former Labour supporters.

She began her campaign by winning gushing plaudits from right - wing papers and is set to finish it with the support of little more than one in ten Labour supporters.

With good personal contacts at the top of the Conservative Party, particularly with George Osborne and his supporters, but also with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (20With good personal contacts at the top of the Conservative Party, particularly with George Osborne and his supporters, but also with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (20with George Osborne and his supporters, but also with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (20with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (2010).

Equally important Labour needs to arm its core supporters with the arguments against the vilification of Muslims to ensure they are not seduced by UKIP and Tory reactionary propaganda.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has since made clear in an interview with the Independent newspaper that she is not a supporter of «cosying up» to the Liberal Democrats, on the basis that Labour may rely on the Lib Dems in the event of another hung parliament in 2015.

Someone who although a staunch Labour supporter, would happily put aside his tribal allegiances and engage with those on the other side of the political fence.

In a ComRes poll, No to AV took a 20 - point lead among Labour supporters, with 60 % of likely voters rejecting a switch to AV.