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Why Are They Leaving.
What's the possible reason behind this.?
Labour Party 'has lost 26,000 members since summer'
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Labour Party 'has lost 26,000 members since summer'
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I'm one of the leaving members (or will be, I shan't be renewing). I originally joined after Corbyn became leader, as I felt cautiously optimistic about what he could do to the party.
Mea culpa. I was wrong.
I plan on ditching the party because I don't feel it's an effective opposition, or an effective governing party. If it was even one of those things, I might feel comfortable staying, but it is just failing at every conceivable level that a political party can fail at. I am not wholly convinced that it's going to recover, so I just feel sort of jaded and uninspired to keep supporting it with my time or money.
Mea culpa. I was wrong.
I plan on ditching the party because I don't feel it's an effective opposition, or an effective governing party. If it was even one of those things, I might feel comfortable staying, but it is just failing at every conceivable level that a political party can fail at. I am not wholly convinced that it's going to recover, so I just feel sort of jaded and uninspired to keep supporting it with my time or money.
There's a good article by Danny Finkelstein in the Times - partly tongue in cheek no doubt - bemoaning the fact that Corbyn seems actually to have given up on coming across as a "break the mould" politician. Pitching Labour as an "anti-establishment" party could surely not be any worse poll-wise. But I suspect that Corbyn never really had it in him to do anything like that. He's no visionary, and ultimately all he was ever good for was voting against his own party. Now he himself is in the position of the people he always used to oppose he seems completely at sea.
//I'd say a goodly number of those are not exactly committed to the cause//
What cause? other than having a vision of a nationalised Britain where everyone is living in state owned houses, catches state owned transport to state owned factories etc and all their children following in their footsteps, unless of course the country goes bankrupt.
What cause? other than having a vision of a nationalised Britain where everyone is living in state owned houses, catches state owned transport to state owned factories etc and all their children following in their footsteps, unless of course the country goes bankrupt.
To put the 500,000in perspective:
In 2008 the Conservatives had 253,600 members
By 2013 it had almost halved to 134,000. The figure today is kept secret because it is embarrassingly low, believed to be less than 90,000.
Why is Tory membership in decline? Simple, they are dying, the majority of its members are 60+
In 2008 the Conservatives had 253,600 members
By 2013 it had almost halved to 134,000. The figure today is kept secret because it is embarrassingly low, believed to be less than 90,000.
Why is Tory membership in decline? Simple, they are dying, the majority of its members are 60+
Gromit, what you and the Labour party fail to comprehend is that party membership is largely irrelevant in the big picture.
It doesn't matter that there are 500,000 Labour party members who worship 'Jeremy'. The problem is that they are the only 500,000 people in the whole country who don't think he's a pillock.
The other 30? odd million that make up the people who vote in general elections don't want to see him as PM.
It doesn't matter that there are 500,000 Labour party members who worship 'Jeremy'. The problem is that they are the only 500,000 people in the whole country who don't think he's a pillock.
The other 30? odd million that make up the people who vote in general elections don't want to see him as PM.
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