Sentences with phrase «working class base»

He also warned that Labour had to rebuild its working class base of support following last Thursday's elections: «It's the middle ground that's actually remaining with Labour, it's the core traditional working class areas and votes that are moving away.»

Yet the opposite is true: New Labour lost 4 million votes between 1997 - 2005 plus a further 1 million by 2010 precisely because it wholly neglected its working class base and showed that its closest affinities were with the employers, the City and the very rich.

«The Labour party began to leave me in a way, and I guess I was also increasingly disillusioned with the Blair project, particularly the way in which the reorientation of the party to the sudden mythical English middle - ground was leaving behind the traditional working class base of the party.

Whether Britain votes In or Out, the gap between the Labour leadership and the party's traditional, working class base is only getting bigger.

And Labour looked ripe for the taking, with its working class base being far more anti-immigration than the party itself.

UKIP is clearly already proven to be a party capable of attracting a large working class base of support.

Labour needs its blue collar working class base to stand any chance of ever governing again, but shows no understanding of what makes them tick.

In May, during an interview with The House Magazine, I outlined my views on a range of issues, including the need for Labour to reengage with our working class base.

With Labour faced with another leadership election between two brands of liberalism, the gulf between the Labour Party and it's traditional working class base (and almost everyone else) has never been greater.

Not exact matches

Having just wrapped up their three - month stint working out of Techstars» New York City - based office, the entrepreneurs that make up the tech accelerator's graduating class know a thing of two about staying productive amidst chaos.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

He was not only breaking with Republican orthodoxy, but was also inviting a trade war that would threaten the livelihood of the working class that he had based his campaign on; it was altogether likely that price increases as a result of his tariffs would wipe out the small income gains that his tax cut bill had brought and slow the healthy economy.

That way, you can choose the class that suits your schedule, rather than being forced to work out at a specific time based on the level of class.

Starbucks will also work with Teamwork Englewood, a non-profit that brings community services together, to provide a multi-week job skills training program for local youth — based on Starbucks own world - class customer service training curriculum for new hires — in a specially - designed classroom space located within the store.

The oil - sands crowd — most of the population and almost the entire political class of Alberta and Saskatchewan — are defending the right of hard - working people to extract and sell a product that is, after all, legal to own and use, and that probably got your car to work this morning: hydrocarbon - based fuels.

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(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

Put simply, «high culture» requires a leisure class or, one might say more precisely, a superfluous class of people that is not engaged in the necessary work of maintaining the material basis for society.

Those with the most chaotic lives are the least likely to vote, but writers like Ross Douthat and Michael Brendan Dougherty have speculated that one of the reasons Trump's earliest voting base was made up of working - class whites was because of the slow social collapse that Charles Murray wrote about.

But the barriers erected by class - based stratification are closely related to those which keep working - class parents from joining churches or forming stable families.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

3:10), is implicit elsewhere in the Bible, though generally on a more communal basis as it is assumed that work is the duty of the «house,» or family unit.6 There is division of labor in the Bible and there is slavery, but little suggestion of a class stratification condemning manual labor as inferior.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

So fans (who were not yet a «fan base») bought a newspaper on the way in as anti-splinter protection, the working - class folks sitting on a News - Post and the white - collar types on an Evening Sun.

The real content of the programme of these gentlemen (and some ladies) is undeniable because at its base it guarantees maximum profit for capital, at the price of stagnation and growing inequality between the small minorities benefiting from the system and all the working classes, and between the nations of the triad and all the rest.

here is the simple truth a team that has walcott giroud campbell merteshaker flamini and ramsey starting wont win trophies... not one is a top class player in their position... having two on the park on regular basis is not a problem and three can probably still ensure 4th place... if we want to go beyond that we need to bring in two top class players in to the midfield and attack (thats in addition to the quality returnees we do have) and to increase the work rate particulalry when we do nt have the ball by a good ammount... that was true 3 years ago 3 months ago and 3 days ago... wenger had the nerve recently to say not signing an outfielder in the summer had been vindicated... the man has been drinking his own kool aid

Students are accepted into the program based on their willingness to attend parenting classes and to work at the center.

While living and working in Glasgow I attended embroidery classes in Glasgow School of Art as part of their programme of Continuing Education and from there became a member of «Stranded in Glasgow», a group of Glasgow - based embroiderers.

Little ones can start as early as 4 months with music - based classes, and 2 1/2 - to 6 - year - olds take three - hour play school classes that can be scheduled a la carte on whatever days work best.

If you can't take Fellom's San Francisco - based class, you can still put her method to work for you.

The success of your classes will be based to some degree on your professionalism with clients and other organisations you may work with.

For seven years, she worked for The Help Group, a large non-profit in Los Angeles as a school - based therapist and clinical director, and has co-facilitated social skills groups and taught parenting classes.

My decision to vote «Leave» is based on my belief in democracy, socialism, and a political economy which protects the living standards of the British working class.

In Britain the shift from a northern - based industrial economy, with a manual, unionised working class, to a consumer - orientated, white - collar service economy increasingly concentrated in the south east of England might very well have occurred whoever was prime minister.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

The Leave vote gives Labour the opportunity to look forward, set out positive vision for the country, think creatively about our future, and excite people, including its withering working - class base.

(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.

It seems likely that the one - third of Labour voters from the last general election who want to leave the EU are disproportionately drawn from the Labour party's historic — but increasingly perilous — working - class base, and there is little doubt that these economic concerns are a major explanation for their dissatisfaction.

After all, unlike the UPK tax hike battle, the only people who will be negatively affected by his policy are his ostensible base: primarily black and Latino working - class people who are committed to getting their kids the best education possible.

It is well known that prior to 1974, class based voting was even stronger than shown in the charts here so 2017 could be the election where Labour which founded to represent the interests of the working class find themselves supplanted in that role by the Conservatives.

Mann's proposal comes amid criticism from some of the party's MPs that the Labour leadership is too London - centric and is losing touch with the party's traditional working class support base.

Blair, the leader of the «modernising» faction (Blairites), argued that the long - term trends had to be reversed, arguing that the party was too locked into a base that was shrinking, since it was based on the working - class, on trade unions, and on residents of subsidised council housing.

He supported the «Medicare for All» single - payer healthcare plan touted by Sanders, and wanted to close many overseas military bases and use the savings to pay an annual dividend check to working - class Americans.

After all, you can't be a «champion of affordable housing» when you worked for a company that evicts poor and middle class tenants from their homes and discriminates people based on color.

Speaking of enlightened self - interest, how does forcing the entire working class into poverty and killing their customer base to protect their hoarding help?

Leading Labour figures have denied adamantly that the party's stance on immigration is central to the collapse of its working - class base.

It has lost touch with its working - class base.

Article 1 The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.

Otherwise they will find that they loose all of their working class voter base.