Sentences with phrase «working class vote»

If middle class labour members continue to push progressive policies they may even lose even more of the traditional working class vote.

«That sort of proper traditional working class vote in Scotland, Jeremy Corbyn does not speak to them in the way that Gordon Brown would have.

He includes a comment from Labour's candidate in Swindon North, Mark Dempsey, who says the problem was that Labour lost working class votes to Ukip and middle class votes to the Conservatives.

«And so it's far easier to win the Midwestern white working class vote when your opponent is private equity - personified Mitt Romney rather than a Jacksonian populist like Donald Trump.»

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

Stoller is urging Democrats to return to those roots as a way of protecting Democracy, adding jobs, and earning working class votes again.

Tories were quite strong here — there was a very strong Tory working class vote and it still exists.

Owen Jone a doesn to now what he's talking bout, he keeps pushing the assumption that's theres great socially liberally, left wing working class vote, that's going to push Labour to victory, a anti blue labour view

Hi Tory, yes I think in Chippenham you will win, but partly due to working class votes going from Lib Dem to UKIP, I feel that UKIP will be very close in Torbay, Camborne & Redruth and North Devon.

He would have taken a good percentage of the Wallace white working class vote, enough to beat Nixon.

Our core working class vote has little loyalty to Labour left.

«He isn't exactly JFK, but he does represent a clear and present danger to Labour in the north of England, particularly at a time when we are haemorrhaging so many white, working class votes.

A position that keeps itself well hidden when trying to get the working class vote out.

The Tory tactic of focusing all of their resources on defending their most vulnerable seats worked because Labour did not inspire the working class vote with a real alternative.

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

At last night's Blue Collar Conservatism event «Perceptions, Policies and Victory in 2015» Tory aficionados weighed in on how the party can reclaim the working class vote in 2015

Blue Labour's core ideas of hard work and reduced dependency sit well with the working class vote that Miliband desperately needs to appeal to.

We lost our working class vote during the Labour Years because we didn't give good jobs to working class people and we didn't build homes for their kids.

In the 1980s, Thatcher grabbed hold of Labour's working class vote — some would say by the throat.

The Tories were seen as the party of the middle class while Labour could rely on the working class vote.

all this talk of labour losing 4million working class votes since 97, well for a start a lot of those people who were working calss are now middle clas, and what of the 5.6 million working class votes laobur lost between 1951 and» 83

In 2011 this helped it attract a larger share of the working class vote for the first time.

The Lib Dems have won these seats in the past as they have secured the working class vote but having seen their loyalty betrayed by the Lib Dems forming a coalition with the Conservatives, the blatant lies over tuition fee's, and more recently Clegg stopping legislation to prevent radical preachers from lecturing and encouraging terrorism in universities, the working class vote will desert the Lib Dems.

Over the past 2 years a myth has taken hold within the Labour party: the fable of the lost 4 million working class votes.

In all South West seats which the Lib Dems are defending, the working class vote is not being taken into account.