Membership

Reasonablesocialist Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:08:56 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

For me it's crucial.  Not just for the obvious things like delivering leaflets, but for the bedrock of the electoral coalition we need to create to win power.




A quicky look at Conservative Home shows that the Tories seem to have so much more in terms or people, activity and ideas.  In contrast many of the postings on here seem to be only mulled over by a few old lefty hacks who want the 1980s back.

How can we increase our membership? (Aside from the obvious point about cutting our enormous membership fee).  Should there be a part of Head Office that deals specifically with this? An increase in regional organisers who have dedicated time to do Party rejuvenation work would be my choice. 

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Re: Membership (#1)

by e10rifles on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:11:04 PM GMT

"In contrast many of the postings on here seem to be only mulled over by a few old lefty hacks who want the 1980s back."

Excuse me for ignoring the substance of your posting seeing as you've started with an insult, an inaccuracy and an irrelevance.

Twat.


Re: Membership (#2)

by NorthernMonkey on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:10:39 PM GMT

No need for that language.

The post was perfectly sensible IMO.


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Re: Membership (#3)

by doctordunc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:06:43 PM GMT

Why start a post about wanting to increase membership with an insulting swipe and a considerable minority of members?  However sensible anything that followed was, it is not surprising it turned some of us off...


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Re: Membership (#4)

by doctordunc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:07:11 PM GMT

AT not AND (proof read Hall!)


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Re: Membership (#5)

by bigpapi on Fri May 09, 2008 at 11:33:34 PM GMT

Why don't we ignore the comment about "a few old lefty hacks" and actually address the serious point made?

My CLP has managed to stand still in terms of membership over the last couple of years - yes I know that doesn't sound very clever - but as our older members have passed away (we've lost two 90+ year olds this year) we have successfully got into one of our local universities and recruited a respectable number of new members from there.

Without tempting fate, we have also been very successful in retaining members; so far I'm only aware of two members who have not renewed their 2008 memberships.

We hope that, as we don't have elections scheduled for 2009, we can re-focus our work from out and out campaigning to recruitment and other issues.

A lot is incumbent on existing volunteers knocking on doors, delivering leaflets explaining Labour's policies and why they are better than anything else on offer, and badgering our supporters identified through voter ID work until they join.

The final thing we have done is to stop holding boring monthly GCs, and let our Executive handle the day-to-day running of the CLP, and opened our monthly meetings up to all members, and when possible, to targetted sections of the general public.


Membership | 5 comments (5 topical)