So the man who had hoped to take on "predatory" capitalists with the might of the British state at his elbow, has instead been manning a stall on the high street in Mexborough, in his Doncaster constituency, urging local people to avoid loan-to-own retailer BrightHouse, which has been accused of charging up to three times as much as alternative retailers, and use the local credit union instead.
All the constituencies who might have hoped to avoid hardship are being walloped anyway.
Markets welcomed the measures, but the government has not highlighted them to avoid alienating important constituencies.
The ministerial code says: "Where ministers have to take decisions within their departments which might have an impact on their own own constituencies they must take particular care to avoid any possible conflict of interest".
Trump acknowledged that the challenge for him will be to sound somewhat less like Hitler to please congressional Republicans while still sounding enough like Hitler to avoid alienating his key constituencies of Nazis and white supremacists.
As they weigh their options, the president and his aides are picking their words carefully to avoid alienating two rival constituencies: potential Hispanic supporters and many Republicans who are suspicious of a legalization plan that they say rewards lawbreakers.
He refers to gerrymandering, while in fact the proposed electoral law stipulates explicitly that individual constituencies shall cover a coherent area, exactly to avoid what Mr. Krugman assumes that the government is doing.
Transit riders are a powerful constituency, and given the strong political pressure to avoid, or at least minimize, fare hikes, proponents of congestion pricing are hopeful that Democrats in the State Assembly will be forced to reconsider it.
Latinos represented 10 percent of the electorate for the first time in last month's election and overwhelmingly supported Democrats, leading some conservatives to re-evaluate the party's stance to avoid permanently losing an increasingly powerful constituency.
A Tory MP has backed a rebellion of local businesses in his constituency who have copied the same offshore loopholes by global corporations to avoid paying tax.
