Tag: party membership

Time for Labour to shrug off polling tyranny?

Peter Kenyon Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 03:52:04 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Appearance rules. That's how Brown's first 100 days were summed up by yours truly in Chartist's September/October 2007 edition. The risks are analysed today here by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian:

Brown and Cameron are also vulnerable. They have allowed the buffer institutions of democracy to atrophy. Their party members have been pushed below the salt, and blind - or at least Melbournian - loyalty has gone too.