Centrist parties don’t need members, all they require is wealthy donors.
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Fuck Israel.
And fuck Tel Aviv Keith too
Erm, who is Keith?
It's what the crank left and crank right call Starmer.
keith sturmer, leader of the red tories
Really speedrunning their transition into becoming Tory Lite.
becoming?
So?
It's not going to cost them the votes they need to win.
Starmer needs support after he wins the election and once the honeymoon is over. That will be hard given how all he's done is piss off the membership.
In a report to the NEC last week, the party’s general secretary, David Evans, caused surprise when he revealed that membership, which had stood at 390,000 in January, had plummeted to 366,604 at the latest count
That's about 200,000 more than the Conservative Party. I think he'll be fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Labour has suffered a sharp fall in membership over the past two months following controversies over its policy on Gaza and its U-turn on green investment, according to figures released to its National Executive Committee (NEC).
The drop of more than 23,000 members comes despite the party holding a commanding lead in the opinion polls, which suggests it is now seen by the wider electorate as ready and able to form the next government, after 14 years of Tory rule.
Labour sources said the party’s overall financial position remained strong despite membership subscriptions falling off, because donations large and small were healthy, and the expectation was that the unions would still give very substantial backing to the election effort.
In a report to the NEC last week, the party’s general secretary, David Evans, caused surprise when he revealed that membership, which had stood at 390,000 in January, had plummeted to 366,604 at the latest count, with more than 11,700 of these being in arrears.
Early in February – in a move that prompted an angry response from environmental groups, unions and some in the energy sector – Starmer and Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, jointly announced they would slash the green prosperity plan from £28bn a year to under £15bn, only a third of which would be new money.
From a failure to oppose Israel’s brutal war on Gaza to morale-damaging U-turns and the mistreatment of Diane Abbott, Keir Starmer is alienating swathes of Labour’s core support.
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