Labour party figures say 17,000 new members have joined nationally since election

[Harty]

Disgruntled Lib Dems?

 

[public school boy]

And now they are regretting it.

 

[algie]

More likely they have come flooding back now Brown has stepped down.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Elements of both Brown going and the realisation of the treacherous behaviour of the LibDems.

But also having the nauseaous Bill and Ben of the "Alliance" govt at the forefront of the news.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Elements of both Brown going and the realisation of the treacherous behaviour of the LibDems.

But also having the nauseaous Bill and Ben of the "Alliance" govt at the forefront of the news.

Bingo!

 

[Perkino]

If only they had come back a month ago!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

That always happens following a loss. The tories had a big upsurge in membership in 97

 

[Stoo82]

Source?

 

[pork pie]

Elements of both Brown going and the realisation of the treacherous behaviour of the LibDems.

But also having the nauseaous Bill and Ben of the "Alliance" govt at the forefront of the news.

Treacherous? Hmm, joining in an anti-Labout alliance when most people made it clear that they were fed-up with useless Labour - far from "treacherous" in my book.

17,000 new members? Wow, out of hoa large a population?

 

[beorhthelm]

i really dont think many card carrying LibDems would switch to the Labour party. other than broad left wing agendas, there are many fundemental principles the two differ on.

 

[Harty]

Source?

For some bizarre reason my 17 year old daughter on the back of all the election mullarkey got interested in politics and joined the Worthing Labour Party, she went to the AGM last Thursday and that where this figure was produced.

I did question it but it was actually mentioned on the paperwork for the meeting.

 

[ROSM]

I had heard it too - it's a jump of approx 10%. I think the Tories membership is reported as c280k, labour as c170k (prior to the recent increase) and Lib Dem as c60k. These are all a far cry from the 'Millions' claimed by the big two parties in the 1930s.

labour did increase membership in the mid 90s (up to 350k) but they have continued to decline since then

NB this doesn't include affiliate members who are union members

 

[desprateseagull]

and do these figures show how many left ? ( or were kicked out?)

 

[Don Quixote]

This is true. We will be BACK! And more terrible and more powerful than ever before.

 

[London Calling]

the 48 hours after the coalition deal was the Labour Party biggest increase in membership,

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It will be interesting to see what the slide in LibDem support is over the next few months according to the opinion polls.

 

[folkestonesgull]

equally if lib dems perform well they could see a big increase in future popular vote. Party membership is pretty immaterial - it will be mainly based in the strongholds anyway.

 

[Rookie]

who actually joins (and I imagine pays a subscription) a political party?