Sentences with phrase «wrong with labour»

That response is symptomatic of everything that has been wrong with the Labour Party over -LSB-...]

Or have I just pointed out what is wrong with Labour at the moment — trying to doctor the results, rather than level the playing fields.

The antics of Damian McBride and Derek Draper, the latter now beyond redemption (again), epitomise all that has gone wrong with the Labour Party.

Not exact matches

But co-operating with the Conservatives in defence of the Union made it possible for Labour to be at the wrong end of anti-Tory hostility — a hostility which Labour has fostered and from which it has previously benefited.

No doubt the response would be that that's a «different» kind of pain, because it is the pain from something being wrong in your body, as opposed to the «pain with a purpose» of labour.

The welfare uprating bill will try to force Labour on the «wrong» side of public opinion, while encouraging party populists like Liam Byrne to get into a firefight with the more left - wing elements.

and the argument that «the Labour party's final abandonment of the «politics of conscience», of the protest tradition, and its full transformation into a party of executive authoritarianism» much overstated and, in my view, wrong - though others inside and outside the party might particularly agree with you.

But what a turnaround on 12 months ago when Labour's ill - tempered gathering started with the announcement of Corbyn's re-election followed by days of recriminations before an adulatory Tory faithful lay prostrate before a revered Theresa May who could do no wrong... until she gambled on that General Election and lost their majority and her authority.

Clegg's comments follow an interview with former party leader Paddy Ashdown in the Observer, in which he said he had been wrong to press for a deal with Labour in 2010.

If I were advising Labour, I'd say it's clear there's something wrong with the team, or with the policies, or with the message, or with a combination of all three.

In the space of three years he went from being lauded as the UK's most successful chancellor of the exchequer who had declared the «end of boom and bust» and «the beginning of a new Golden Age» to presiding over a country in a debilitating credit crunch amid Labour in - fighting, a breakdown in relations with many colleagues including his chancellor, and ultimately a failure to dissuade the electorate against the Tory / Lib Dem mantra that Labour allowed it all to go wrong.

Along with not wanting to look like he was wrong, he also was head of the party and doesn't want to lose credibility of the Labour Party.

Just as the narrative about Labour causing the recession became fact, with all the contenders claiming they got it wrong on immigration there is little room for any debate.

I fear that everyone with an opinion about New Labour for good or for ill have allowed certain myths to concrete themselves into our dialogue and our understanding of where Labour has gone right and wrong over the last 20 years.

Everything that is wrong with both «politics» (as sold to the citizens treated as mugs) and the Labour Party.

People sometimes argue that we were wrong to enter a coalition with the Conservatives, and should have done a deal with Labour.

Earlier one Labour candidate said colleagues were feeling downbeat, with fears of a 100 - plus majority for May, but they later admitted they had been wrong.

The former director of strategy under Gordon Brown, David Muir, travels to Milton Keynes to lead a focus group with disenchanted Labour voters - and ask them «where did it all go wrong?»

Tony Benns view that the electorate were wrong for not voting for us, was only matched by, the view after 1992, the electorate haven't voted for us 4 times now, what's wrong with them, Or the union boss who said he'd told labour what policies to have and then when labour had lost, and that it was this fault for telling us to have policies we didn't want, but labour for not being any good at winning in those policies

With a little courage we can put Labour on the wrong side of this political divide and step into the space left by the death of New Labour.

The line in the speech that will cause the most trouble for Ed Miliband is that David Miliband intended to create a commission on the deficit chaired by Alistair Darling and charged with creating a new set of fiscal rules, an admission that Labour got it wrong on the deficit which Ed Miliband has refused to give.

It also comes as some restless Labour MPs are backing a «show not tell» approach that sees leadership hopefuls winning over left - leaning members by delivering speeches that chime with their values - rather lecturing them on where Corbyn is going wrong.

Miliband said he was «learning the lessons of where New Labour went wrong with the really super-rich», but denied that he would ever raise the top rate of income tax about 50 %.

Had he announced from the Labour Conference that he was gong to the country he would have wrong - footed the Conservative Party who's Conference would have then had to be cancelled at great cost and disruption and I feel he would have won with a working majority say 40 or so.

1) If Labour makes a «principled stand» for a VAT rise in the budget (assuming such an increase takes place), how is this consistent with a VAT rise being «plain wrong»?

These are people that need to be properly engaged with if Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same Labour has any ambitions of securing a majority however properly engaging and pandering to their views when wrong or speaking about labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same labour supporters as if they're a different classes of people are not the same thing.

It fits with Labour's broader critique of him and in that sense is logical, but it's also wrong.

The actual reasons seems to be the polls were wrong, which means Labour's defeat is suddenly pretty easy to explain: people did not have a positive perception of their party leader, people did not think they were competent on what they considered two of the three major issues of the day (the economy and immigration) and even in the area Labour normally have better figures than the Tories, perceptions of the party itself, people increasingly saw them as out of touch with ordinary people.

It would be wrong to assume the 28 % who stay with Labour regardless is purely down to blind brand loyalty — people may be sticking with the main Labour party in both scenarios because they think a splinter party is doomed under First Past the Post, or because they disapprove of splitters.

It would be wrong to suggest that Labour faces electoral destruction in Westminster if it loses its Scottish constituencies - Blair's three elections would still have resulted in Labour governments, albeit with truncated majorities.

Labour government is the cause of all that's wrong with Britain!

Nothing will be done without a clear analysis of what's wrong with current Labour thinking and without suggesting how it could be different.

In terms that will alarm some on the left of his party, who resent working with the Conservatives, the former Lib Dem leader admits that he was wrong to have pushed so hard for a deal with Labour after the 2010 election, when Nick Clegg was moving towards the Tories.

The prime minister does not go as far as the Labour leader, who has said the whole incursion into Gaza is wrong, or Nick Clegg, who has said Israel's actions appear to be a disproportionate act of collective punishment and called for talks with Hamas.

«I will fight against this historic injustice with every bone in my body until this wrong is righted,» said the Labour MP.

Sympathetic Labour journalists have attempted both to analyse what went wrong with the Blair / Brown governments, but also to offer a trenchant defence of the achievements.

Labour leader accepts he was wrong to pose with the Sun but says voters will back him because ideas matter in politics

Asked on BBC Radio 4 whether Labour was overspending before the crash, Cooper said: «I think there were things that we were spending wrongly on, there were issues that we would have been spending money, too much money on — for example there were things that went wrong with the NHS computer system, with all sorts of things like that — but the deficit at the time was 0.6 %, the current deficit, and all the political parties at the time were all supporting the spending plans.»

Labour also acknowledged that if it fell third in the share of the popular vote, it will be impossible to strike any deal with Clegg, and it would be morally wrong to try to do so.

The prime minister regularly plays fast and loose with the facts at prime minister's questions and he got it wrong again yesterday when he claimed that ex Labour MP Howard Stoat had lost his Dartford seat at the general election.

He has subsequently been slapped down by Jeremy Corbyn, with a spokesman for the Labour leader saying it was wrong to «sweep options off the table».

All these claims are fundamentally wrong, but by not challenging (because they agreed with it) the relentless repetition of these Tory lies Labour left millions of undecided voters to believe either that there was no difference between the two parties or that Labour could not be trusted with the economy.

Senior Labour figures in Scotland struggle to come up with consistent answers as to what has gone wrong.

We need to listen to what people worry about with Labour values and policies, then accept where we may be wrong and amend them.

While it still remains the likeliest option, some senior Labour figures are advising the Prime Minister to act decisively and to wrong foot the Tories, with 15 April emerging as an alternative date.

All that is wrong with the Blairite and post-Blairite Labour Party.

«As Labour seeks to rebuild trust with the British people, it is important we are honest about what we got wrong.

It's a toss of the coin really take a chance with labour who say nothing wrong with the banking bonus culture or the banking crimes or in fact the fat cats MP's who got away with blue murder on expenses.

There's nothing wrong with the bus being pink and the issues raised by the women's tour are important, but when Labour frontbenchers have been campaigning vociferously that equating the colour pink with girls is sexist then, once again, who couldn't have predicted disastrous headlines?

It's embarrassing once again that it comes from a Tory Minister (not even a Lib Dem one) and that, as with prison policy, two former Labour home secretaries, Alan Johnson and David Blunkett in this case, leap onto the wrong side with both feet.