Sentences with phrase «working class voters»

After all that was the political thinking that made council house sales so popular with working class voters.

The referendum has given many people, especially many working class voters, the chance to strike a blow against the system which is failing them and which is failing to listen to them.

But by a large 40 - 16 % margin, working class voters disagree.

Alongside the SNP's triumph with working class voters, the party also took the biggest share of women.

A Labour MP is planning to get Jeremy Corbyn personally «knocking on doors» of working class voters who are deserting Labour for Ukip.

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.

It is safe Labour territory, but even here Ukip is expected to capitalise on strong support among working class voters in the C2DE category to come in second, ahead of the Conservatives.

In recent weeks, John Mann and Simon Danczuk have expressed reservations over the new regime's ability to attract white working class voters in northern seats.

There is a growing chasm and disparity between the traditional working class voters Labour claims and aspires to represent, and the people clamouring to represent them — The Metropolitan Middle Class centre - left.

The decision to campaign as Better Together in conjunction with the Coalition parties alienated large numbers of working class voters from Scottish Labour.The lack of a «more devolution» option polarised working class opinion though that option was effectively revived in «the vow «agreed between the Westminster parties last month.

Do they pull in the disaffected old left working class voters deserted by «new» Labour in recent decades?

A group of 63 Conservative MPs launched the Blue Collar Conservatism group today, with the aim of winning over working class voters.

In a public spat with a political rival Jon Lansman added that concern «only» with winning elections was how the centrist wing of the Labour party drove working class voters away.

To which Mr Lansman said: «But being concerned only with «winning» is how you drove working class voters away from @UKLabour to UKIP and the SNP.»

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

He quotes the BBC's political research editor, David Cowling, on the subject of working class voters voting for parties other than Labour:

Appearing on Radio Four's Today programme this morning, Mr Johnson also dismissed suggestions that Labour have ignored the issue of immigration - seen as the main area of concern for working class voters.

Half a century ago, the great majority of working class voters backed Labour, while most middle - class voters supported the Conservative.

The initial Labour reaction to the success of UKIP at attracting working class voters in many areas has focussed on the right policy response.

Most commentators and politicos expected the Remain campaign to narrowly win but ordinary working class voters thought differently.

Since then working class voters have defected in droves to UKIP.

Its former working class voters have gone to UKIP, he says, because -LSB-...]

We have bigger concerns than a narrow focus aspirational skilled working class voters at the moment, and anyhow Rentoul's argument assumes that group's attitudes and priorities have not been affected by the recession.

Ukip's deputy leader says the party are deliberately targeting disillusioned working class voters, describing them as the «low - hanging fruit in politics».

Now that the referendum process is over, we can begin the process of political education that will leave working class voters feeling less dispossessed, and elites more responsive to the concerns of the public.

«Unlike Mr Cameron today, Mrs Thatcher's great electoral trick in the 1980s was to make a decent offer to aspirational working class voters.»

Many of them are working class voters living in the former Labour heartlands of the west central belt: the type of voters that New Labour routinely neglected in its pursuit of middle England.

The British politician did note that Brexit was able to win by reaching voters who had never voted before — perhaps an oblique reference to the idea that Trump is reaching working class voters who feel disenfranchised by normal electoral politics.

Sketching a brief vision for how conservatives could persuade working class voters to their side, Olsen recommends a Republican message which situates conservative policy goals; rewarding work, limiting government while preserving a safety net, eliminating corporate welfare, and strengthening the family within the moral framework of working class priorities:

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.

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

It's undoubtedly a reason why the lower middle class flocked to the Conservatives in 2015 and it's a reason why working class voters are continuing to haemorrhage from the Labour party.

Blue collar voters were crucial to Margaret Thatcher's election victories in the 1980s, particularly after the right to buy scheme, which allowed working class voters to buy their council houses.

Smith and his band of hardened electoral pragmatists are quick to accuse Corbyn of being out of touch with the common «man - in - the - street» outside London, and yet they continue to ignore — or actively support — Smith's biggest policy pledge that would clearly be popular with people who can afford the Eurostar or who go skiing, but would ensure millions of working class voters never vote Labour again.

Certainly, Labour constituencies see fairly high levels of UKIP support (notably at the recent Heywood & Middleton by - election), suggesting there is credence to the argument that Labour is losing its disaffected traditional and typically working class voters to UKIP.

Another form of Trump Treason... betraying working class voters!

As Phil Burton - Cartledge points out on his blog, UKIP's current campaign in Labour heartlands is predominantly winning over 2010 Tory working class voters, with 2010 Labour voters proving more resilient.

We are beginning to lose noyt onl; y working class voters to ~ UKIP and abstention, but radical voters, including those who switched from the Lib Dems, to the Greens.

The union cited the candidate's platform of political reform, which states working class voters and retirees are «suffering economically due to broken politics.»

It was the in - built flaw in the New Labour project: the attempt to capture middle - class votes whilst relying on working class voters having no where else to go was always a short - term fix.

«UKIP has had no trouble attracting working class voters because it's Thatcherite.»

Writing for the left - wing newspaper, Dugher warns that Labour is facing a «meltdown» in credibility among working class voters unless it acknowledges the downsides of mass EU immigration.

Some 61 % of potential working class voters also backed a change in Labour policy, while only 4 % wanted to remain on track for a hard Brexit.

Data from YouGov suggest working class voters have surged to the Conservatives and now favour Mrs May's party by 43 per cent to 40 per cent - compared to a Labour lead of 46 - 35 in January.