>More than 200,000 members have left the party since Starmer became leader, representing a loss of £8m in membership dues per year.
I don’t know what the source on this is but it’s catastrophic if true. If I recall correctly membership was about 500,000 at the end of Corbyn’s tenure so that’s almost reduced the number by half.
The members are the party’s footsoldiers in getting people out to vote and it’s going to damage their chances to not have them do that. Not to mention the financial aspect that’s already been mentioned as precarious.
That was clearly his objective. The Labour party has been thoroughly infiltrated and hollowed out by establishment stooges. The left no longer has any credible representation in the UK.
We have the most crooked and incompetent government for a long time, this should be an open goal, and yet Labour still manage to screw this up
The worse thing to happen to Labours right is an economic decline, that’s because they would be expected to act on it.
Blair and his grouping got lucky because the UK economy was actually doing well by 1996, it was public services that weren’t and the public had had enough of the Tories penny-pinching.
This difference is why Starmer is probably not going to win it for Labour. In essense he is offering a John Major style operation, it’s wildly out of tune with the times we are living in.
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>More than 200,000 members have left the party since Starmer became leader, representing a loss of £8m in membership dues per year.
I don’t know what the source on this is but it’s catastrophic if true. If I recall correctly membership was about 500,000 at the end of Corbyn’s tenure so that’s almost reduced the number by half.
The members are the party’s footsoldiers in getting people out to vote and it’s going to damage their chances to not have them do that. Not to mention the financial aspect that’s already been mentioned as precarious.
That was clearly his objective. The Labour party has been thoroughly infiltrated and hollowed out by establishment stooges. The left no longer has any credible representation in the UK.
We have the most crooked and incompetent government for a long time, this should be an open goal, and yet Labour still manage to screw this up
The worse thing to happen to Labours right is an economic decline, that’s because they would be expected to act on it.
Blair and his grouping got lucky because the UK economy was actually doing well by 1996, it was public services that weren’t and the public had had enough of the Tories penny-pinching.
This difference is why Starmer is probably not going to win it for Labour. In essense he is offering a John Major style operation, it’s wildly out of tune with the times we are living in.