Dave Boyle

A few quick, random, ill-thought through and possibly contradictory thoughts on this:

On a purely anecdotal level, quite a few friends who have rejoined Labour have done so having left the party for all the reasons membership organisations often lose people - sense of alienation, powerlessness, not really wanted, disenchantment with performance - all of which remained in place and as 'true' on May 11th as they were in the years leading up to May 6th. Yet they still rejoined.

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<>I've been doing some work on making local newspapers membership organisations, on the basis that the cause of their problems is a double whammy caused by the downturn of their chief subsidy (local small and job ads) in the face of the interwebs at a time when many are labouring under a business model which needs them to generate excessive returns to the conglomerates who have leveraged themselves to the max in order to fund their purchase. This is hollowing out quality (offices close,...