Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Local discussion of national politics tends to fall within the spectrum of moderately conservative to arch-conservative thought.

Local politics often involve this issue.

Local New York politics were tightly controlled by a parochial elite led by Governor George Clinton, and local political leaders did not want to share their power with the national politicians.

* Konnert, Mark " Local politics in the French Wars of Religion "

In the mid 20th century the square hosted the headquarters of both the main parties of British politics, and it is now home to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Local Government Association and the London base of the European Parliament and European Commission.

Local politics is controlled by Fife Council although there is interest being shown by some people in redeveloping more locally centred councils.

Though the Times had been a strong backer of Cryer, the paper in 1927 published an editorial referring to the city government as " Our Local Tammany ", a reference to Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York politics in the 19th Century.

Local politics and business interests become involved, including the president of the bank to which Croker is indebted, Roger Too White's former fraternity brother ( now Mayor of Atlanta ), and the entirety of ' respectable ' Atlanta society.

Local politics have been dominated by the Labour Party for much of the 20th century, however Ashfield attracted media attention in the late 1970s with a shock by election win for the Conservatives.

That the metropolitan county councils were controlled by the Labour Party led to accusations that their abolition was motivated by party politics: the general secretary of the National Association of Local Government Officers described it as a " completely cynical manoeuvre ".

For those who disagreed with El Centro de la Raza ’ s far-left politics and savored historical irony, it didn ’ t get better than this: an organization that staunchly supported workers ’ rights, the AFL-CIO ( OPEIU Local 8 ), accused El Centro of violating the labor rights of its own staff.

The resulting battles were fierce: in Local 601, which represented Westinghouse workers in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and whose members had a tradition of radical politics dating back to Eugene V. Debs ' candidacy for President in 1912, the two factions were led by brothers Mike and Tom Fitzgerald, who attacked each other personally as vigorously as the factions did on political issues.

Local people often seek to defend their real or perceived culture, and local politics is often dictated by a desire to preserve the traditions and habits of the Island.

* Local activist Dave Meslin created City Idol — an initiative and contest to encourage local citizens who were otherwise alienated from politics to seek office in this election.

The show's success as ABC Local Radio's highest rating weekday program is bolstered by a team of experts who are featured every week to discuss such topics as motoring, literature, movies, American politics and travel destinations.

Local politics had an interest in the market's audience.

Local hosts had been instructed to not limit themselves to sports, but also include politics, celebrities, relationships, and current events.

Theories intended to explain these unusual clouds include materials left over from the formation of our galaxy, or tidally-displaced matter drawn away from other galaxies or members of the Local Group.

SLFP was founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, who was the Cabinet minister of Local Administration, before he left the UNP in July 1951.

Local myth describes how in years gone by, due to its supposed illegal nature, Blue Vinny would be left on the doorstep of those who ordered it on the black market.

The Local Government Act 1972 left the boundaries mostly untouched, although part of it, in Basildon New Town, was ceded to the Basildon district and the district gained borough status.

Local settlers scavenged the timbers and left little behind of the original construction materials.

Local soils are a rich and varied blend, with deposits of gravels, sands, and rock flour, ground up and tilled by the glaciers, and left behind as they receded to the north.

Local tourist organisations also wanted it left in situ, believing that it would bring visitors to the area who would wish to see it.

Local bassist Peggy Foster took over on bass but left after a month.

Local officials in the countryside competed to over-report the levels of production that their communes had achieved in response to the new economic organisation, and thus local peasants were left with a much reduced residue.

Further electoral setbacks and a minor split left the party after the 2004 Local Elections with only two councillors, both in Waterford.

Sigman could not, however, regain control of the New York locals, including Dressmakers ' Local 22 and Cloak Finishers Local 9, where the CP leadership and their left wing allies, some anarchists and some Socialists, enjoyed strong support of the membership.

Local Serb forces managed to complete their cleansing of the UNPA areas, started in 1991, that left only 279 Croats there out of a pre-war population of 102, 000.

In February 2008, Home 107. 9 was rebranded as The New Pennine FM, and by June 2008 it had left The Local Radio Company profile and was taken over independently.

Local residents have been campaigning, without success, for more Piccadilly Line trains to stop at Turnham Green with trains only stopping in the event of delays to the District Line whereby large numbers of passengers are left waiting on the platform or occasionally while scheduled maintenance work is carried out.

This left WQXR-FM as the New York Times Company's lone radio station and, following a sale of its group of television stations to Local TV that same year, the New York Times Company's sole remaining broadcasting property.

The small excavated area of land on the left is a Local Nature Reserve which supports rare plants due to its unusual position in a triangle of rail routes-the Maritime Line, the disused continuation of the West Cornwall Railway to the riverside at Newham, and a never-built route allowing Cornwall Railway trains to reach Newham.

Sigman could not, however, regain control of the New York locals, including Dressmakers ' Local 22, headed by Charles S. Zimmerman, where the CP leadership and their left wing allies, some anarchists and some Socialists, enjoyed strong support of the membership.

In March 2011 he led demonstrations of Forza Nuova against the recent surge of illegal immigrants to the island of Lampedusa, which had left the islanders outnumbered, stating to a crowd of people that: " Local people are now asking us to help secure the beaches, and if the Government continues to fail in its duty to protect the people, and also the territorial integrity of Italy and Europe, we will take up that challenge ".

Some Local Planning Authorities ( such as Bournemouth Borough Council ) publish provisional curtilages, to assist property owners ; but frequently the curtilage is left undefined until such time as it may be challenged in the planning process or in law.

Radcliffe became a part of the Municipal Borough of Bury in 1876, but following the Local Government Act 1894 it left the district ( by then the County Borough of Bury ), becoming an urban district within the administrative county of Lancashire.

Local Polish paramilitary platoons led by general Władysław Wejtko fought the Red Army in Vilnius for five days ; the Lithuanian government had left Vilnius along with the regular German Army.

Local attractions include trinity falls, darkview falls, and rock carvings which are an archaeological find and are believed to have been left by Carib Indians.

Local hosts Jeff and Jer left KFMB FM in August 2005 and moved across town to 94. 1 FM now known as " Star 94. 1 ".