A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.
The July quarterly report I get as a CLP membership secretary shows Labour membership growing again in Hackney North for the second successive quarter. Taking into account the tighter rules on members in arrears that have been brought in, it is now back to pre-Iraq War levels.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 3:56 pm
Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
4 Comments:
Not losing any more. Slight upwards bumps - measured in handfuls - but nothing like replacing the huge losses. Fairly close to the figures for May 2003 I suppose. But of course the major haemorraghing had already taken place. If you'll pardon the blood metaphor.
11:43 pm, July 13, 2007
Post script:
Have now published a good part of this afternoon's research on latest E-S defectives to Tories.
These defectives' stepping stone from Labour to Cameron's Conservatives was founded and is still masterminded by an ex-NF Organiser and jailbird (ABH for 4-5 months of a 6 month sentence) for bricking and wounding a police officer from a moving train.
11:44 pm, July 13, 2007
I'm not a Labour Party member but I'm told by local Labour members, and ex-members, that here in Allerdale the local CLP has dropped from almost 1000 members to under 100 in the last few years.
Welcome to the Labour heartlands.
11:51 am, July 14, 2007
In south wales it has been steady, but nothing spectacular. Because of the deputy leadership and special conference we had over the coalition in the assembly our current members seem re energised though
9:04 am, July 16, 2007
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