Over 1,000 new members for the Lib Dems in just two hours
Following Vince Cable’s announcement of a Lib Dem leadership contest, over 1,000 people have joined the Liberal Democrats:
Those are on top of the post-local elections membership surge the party saw.
If you’re not yet a member yourself, you have until Friday June 7th to join and vote in the leadership contest.
And, of course, you can get all the best coverage of the leadership race with Liberal Democrat Newswire. Sign up here – it’s free!
On a long train journey today I spent a bit of time browsing twitter to find people saying “I voted LibDem” (not hard) and tweeting a message to them: “Thanks for your vote. Why not join the party? You can help elect our leader…” I had lots of very nice exchanges, and I think I managed to draw a few over the line.
It’s a nice way to spend an hour or two! 🙂
Just beware the bots!?
And when we overtake the Tory membership(as theirs goes in the opposite direction) we should make a big fuss about it.
And if, as I predict, the BBC ignores it then we should take a full page advert in a few daily newspapers to tell everyone that we are:-
the one party whose policies don’t change with the weather
we are growing and growing, so now have more members than the Tories
we are democratic, our members make the decisions not the leader
we are greener than the Greens,
we are patriotic not nationalistic,
we are unashamedly European and internationalist.
and so on..
how else will they know if we don’t tell them..?
We are rarely given current membership numbers. I would be interested to know, occasionally, what they are.
Or is the number a deep, dark secret?
Or, possibly, I am looking in the looking in the wrong place!
Can you enlighten me/us, please?
The next published set will be the electorate for the leadership contest.