Please help a wavering member

Juvenal Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 02:10:31 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

My Labour membership is up for renewal.  Three reasons, please, why I should rejoin for another year.



According to a letter I received over the festive break, the Labour Party can no longer accept my membership dues by direct debit from my bank account.  Direct debit helpfully excused me from actively deciding every year whether to renew my membership or not.  

Now I have to think before renewing my membership, my mind is immediately drawn to the reasons why the Party currently frustrates me so much.  The local party is pretty moribund (despite the efforts of some stalwarts), our Labour MP seems to respond to queries by cutting and pasting from government press releases, and there are a number of key policies with which I really disagree.

Can you suggest three reasons why I should renew?



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Re: Please help a wavering member (#1)

by guido fawkes on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 02:27:41 PM GMT

No.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#5)

by mwell on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 04:15:52 PM GMT

Juvenal,

One good reason is surely to avoid giving satisfaction to the likes of Guido...


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Re: Please help a wavering member (#7)

by HOWLERMONKEY on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 05:01:18 PM GMT

Guedo..lots of yours are away off to UKIP and others...


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Re: Please help a wavering member (#2)

by swatantra on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 02:29:59 PM GMT

Thats stumped me! Always the difficult questions first! I'm not going to reel off a whole load of statistics about what this Labour Govt has done for you, as a lot of our Ministers are so fond of doing and boring us to death by, but, do it for the sake of 'auld lang syne' and the the fact that the Tories have no real policies and would be infinitely a lot worse.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#3)

by Charlotte Mackenzie on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 02:48:35 PM GMT

Three reasons to stump up:
(1)It is better to be on the inside campaigning for what you believe in than carping on the sidelines. There is still time to influence eg the final shape of House of Lords reform.
(2) Labour has and is making changes for the better which your blog says you support - eg raising the school leaving age to 18 - you know the others.
(3) As a member I suggest you try to find a different, more direct and productive, way to talk to your MP. As a non-member you could carry on writing to your MP and reading cut and paste press releases, but you would not be doing anything positive to influence debate on issues you care about.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#4)

by Wildrose on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 04:06:07 PM GMT

  1.  The leadership election is coming up - and you can help to shape the future.

  2.  Walking away never solved anything.

  3.  Have you seen the other b......?


Re: Please help a wavering member (#6)

by Mark Wadsworth on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 04:22:03 PM GMT

Juvenal, as long as you keep posting on this site (most of your comments are well thought out etc) then I don't really care.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#8)

by HOWLERMONKEY on Tue Jan 02, 2007 at 09:18:47 PM GMT

Reason 1..It's better to be inside the tent urinating out, than the outside of the tent urinating in. As there is a piece of urine the proof material between you and those you wish to urinate on inside. With that piece of material between you and them, they don't care how much you urinate.and the chances are that your feet get wet.

Reason 2.. Go find another tent to urinate out of. Although now you have two layers of urine proof material between you and those you originally wished to urinate on, and the chances are that when you look around in that tent you want to urinate on its occupants  even more than the occupants of the first tent you were in .

 Reason 3.. Urinate off completely, and no one at all will  give a defecation where you urinate.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#9)

by Juvenal on Wed Jan 03, 2007 at 09:10:57 PM GMT

Many good reasons here - many thanks.  Guido certainly helped me make my decision.

My resolution this year is to focus more on attacking the opposition than, as Howlermonkey might say, urinating in the Labour tent.

The cheque's in the post, and I promise not to ask again next year.


Re: Please help a wavering member (#10)

by HOWLERMONKEY on Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 04:28:24 PM GMT

Cheers mate.


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Re: Please help a wavering member (#11)

by Loz on Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 10:34:19 PM GMT

Congratulations.


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