MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Britain’s Labour Party is seeing a flood of new members. That’s why it’s in such trouble.
By artappraiser on Thu, 05/11/2017 - 12:05am |Analysis by Tim Bale @ The Washington Post, May 10
Whether you look at the opinion polls or at the beating it’s just taken in a slew of local elections, Britain’s Labour Party is in a lot of trouble [....]
Here’s the puzzle. The same Labour Party that is careening toward electoral disaster on June 8 has enjoyed amazing success in bringing in new members. Hundreds of thousands of people have joined the party since 2015, five years after it was voted out of office after 13 years in government. This is all the more extraordinary given a general trend of declining membership among European political parties.
So how can a party that is doing so well in adding to its membership be doing so badly in the polls? The answer is that attracting more members may be a curse rather than a blessing [....]
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