Two reports put Liberal Democrat membership 40%+ higher than Conservative Party
Two reports have put current Conservative Party membership at 70,000:
John Strafford, chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, says he has heard two independent reports saying Conservative national membership is now down to 70,000
— Michael Crick (@MichaelLCrick) January 4, 2018
With Liberal Democrat membership up in six figures, that backs-up earlier reports of the Lib Dems over-taking Conservative membership, something unprecedented in British political history.
One target from Vince Cable’s leadership campaign achieved, and by some margin: on these figures Lib Dem membership is over 40% higher than that of Theresa May’s* party.
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* Go on, you know you want to insert ‘troubled’ here.
If this is the case why are publishers always only talking about Labour and Conservative and hardly ever mentioning the growing Liberal Democrat support
But what is the Liberal Democrat membership? My guess is 90-95,000 after the December lapses as there seem to be very few new members.
As I touched on in the post, it’s in six (not five) figures Peter. There’s a good example of recent joiners in the tweets from https://twitter.com/MatthewGreen02
Peter in your haste to belittle the fine Liberal Democrat membership which now exceeds 100k – you were desperate to try and suggest that it is now tumbling.
Sorry to disappoint but it isn’t.
Mark, If you are privy to knowing still in six figures …. what is the number? SWe have aright to know 😉
All the more urgency to develop a compelling mission beyond being against Brexit and a strategy beyond winning council seats and hoping this will translate into votes at a general election. If the party squanders this influx of members it would be unforgiveable.