It seems that my blog piece on the Conservative Party membership has sparked some controversy with a local right wing blogger, the aptly named, anonymous Right Friendly who has sourced his piece from John Ward.
Just when this blogger was mourning the loss of the jedi master of the right in Medway. He reappears like Obi-Wan's ghost.
This blogger does enjoy a good fisk especially when the right usually fail to undertake basic online research. In this case on the piece entitled 'Party Membership' which has got past two right wingers!
Their piece contends that the Musings from Medway piece on the Conservatives is unjustified and has produced an authoritative graph to prove the point (though it stops in 2008). The blogger contends that the Labour Party membership was 60,000 in May 2010.
This blogger knows that number is not correct so decided to find out where Right Friendly and John Ward had pinched it from. It appears, rather amusingly, that it has sourced his information from the bible of the left, a Guardian piece entitled, yes, 'Labour Party sees record surge in membership.'
The Guardian piece has alas missed the '1' which is quite common for the Grauniad.
According to the Labour Party the membership in May 2010 was 155,000.
On September 30th, Harriet Harman reported to conference that 35,000 people had joined the party since May, that would create a membership of 190,000 or even 202,000 (if you take the 167,000).
Either way, the blog post 'Tory Party are dying' serves to highlight the fact that with the Conservative membership standing at 177,000 the Labour Party has now overtaken the Conservative Party in terms of membership. Perhaps that is the reason why Sayeeda Warsi felt uncomfortable discussing the topic.
Perhaps Right Friendly could update the authoritative graph which ignores the massive decline in Conservative membership and the increase in Labour membership.
The Conservative grassroot website ConservativeHome is already pondering the reasons why members have left in there droves. Indeed, comments show that they are worried that the party has lost members in a period where the incumbent government has been almost consistently behind in the polls. The website suggests it could be due to the fact that the membership subscription is too high and/or because those who were members have signed up to be 'friends' of the Conservative Party, which apparently stands at an all time high of 500,000.
If Labour has already overtaken the Conservative Party after only 5 months, it should send shivers down the spine of a party that is quite literally dying.
Locally Labour are the only party which has pledged to put a full slate of candidates under 35 at the next election. Already we have picked young candidates for the majority of marginal wards. The next generation is our generation.
Labour is quite literally the future for Britain.
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