“In an official submission to the Electoral Commission, Labour admitted that its membership at the end of 2007 was 176,891.”
Hardly mass market.
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The only sane explanation that I can come up with for his result is that the 530 were doing a “none of the above” protest vote.
UKIP is such a freak show that it hardly matters . . .
Tim adds: as compared to what? TJN?
Only 10,000 members voted in the leadership election? With a membership that small it doesn’t seem to me that UKIP is a major force in politics.
Tim adds: Turnout was in the 55%-60% range. We are indeed a small party. Only came second last euro elections…..beating Labour into third.
According to this article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2475301/Labour-membership-falls-to-historic-low.html
“In an official submission to the Electoral Commission, Labour admitted that its membership at the end of 2007 was 176,891.”
Hardly mass market.