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Originally Posted by 007stuart
For the record the Scottish Labour has a membership of 13500 down from 30000 in 1997, the corresponding figure for the Scottish National Party is 92000, up 75000 this year.
It will be interesting to see how Jim will turnaround the Scottish Labour Party's slide into obscurity.
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Quite.
The SNP's headline membership figure is impressive. It will be even more impressive if they mobilise a similar percentage of those new sign-ups to canvass for the election in May. Personally, I have my doubts. Joining a party online for a pound (which doesn't even cover the cost of membership) has only slightly more political oomph behind it than signing a dozen petitions a day on Change.org, and will change precisely as much. Which is not a lot.