Interesting story in the Express recently. Labour is losing members, but not slowly, more like a flood.
According to the Express 250 members per day are leaving. The situation was bad when Jeremy Corbyn was leader as many moderates could not stomach the extremism of Corbyn and his cronies. It should have been a situation that the new leader Sir Keir Starmer might have reversed but this is not the case. Labour continues to lose paying members and that does not look good for either the party’s credibility or its finances.
The Express said:
However, so far the new leadership has failed to stop the rot.
There have been 120,000 paying members who have quit the party, significantly hitting the party’s finances.
There were 550,000 members last April when Sir Keir was elected, but the number has now plummeted to 430,000.
Up to £500,000 in monthly income has been lost as a result of the drop in membership.
I can’t see this getting any better for Labour unless they suddenly change all that has made the party unpopular such as the Islamopandering, the slavish adoration of far left Metropolitan woke views and the abandonment of Britain’s working classes. If they don’t do that then I suspect that they will continue to lose both members and the money that members bring.
Political parties need a strong membership base in order to raise money and provide the human resources to fight elections and build support. Without these things a party that was once widely supported and eagerly funded by members, becomes a Zombie party, a party with MP’s but no base to campaign for them. Labour seems to be entering the Zombie Party stage because of both finances and the fact that the membership are fleeing en masse. If Labour are serious about being seen as a potential party of government they can’t just rely on the Tories screwing up, they need to make themselves electable. The big question for me is do Labour have the balls to make the changes that the need to make in order to become electable again? From this point of observation, it really doesn’t look like it.
The Liberals used to be the only credible alternative to the Tories until they were replaced by Labou. It seems Labour will meet a similar fate in the foreseeable future although no alternative party with a serious chance of becoming one of the two major parties has yet emerged. If UKIP didn’t have so much public and venomous infighting amongst its higher ranking members they might have just replaced Labour as the biggest threat to the Tories.The 21st Century will not be noted by future historians as being kind to the Labour Party.
Yes indeed. The fate of the Liberals is what is awaiting Labour. I agree that the infighting killed UKIP. If this hadn’t happened then may be UKIP could have started to make the transition to an alternative governing party whilst still keeping an eye on the slippery pro EU types who were trying to drag Britain back into the EU.
Starmer has not explained to the general public what his party stands for now. All that’s known about it is negative: it’s not anti-semitic (in theory), it’s anti sensible attitudes to gender, it’s pro-Europe but not anti-Brexit, etc., etc. When the infighting stops, there may be two separate camps, neither electable.
Although I dislike the socialists vying for power, we desperately need a strong opposition to Boris’s wrecking gang.
I’m with you on the need for a proper opposition. Shame the Heritage Party and its leader disappeared into tin foil hat land. If Labour splits then I suspect the moderate bit, provided that they respect things like Brexit, might pick up some seats and maybe more seats than the Islamoleftist part left over from the split.