Membership Means Nothing Politically

Membership of the Tory party is so low that it hardly exist as an organisation. Tory MPs & councillors *are* the Tory party.

Membership of the Labour Party is very high. The number of Labour ‘registered supporters’ alone is higher than the Tory membership.

It is the Tory party that is in power not Labour.

Membership means nothing.

The size of the membership of the Labour Party will only mean something if it gets above 11 MILLION (& can thus deliver an election victory) otherwise it is meaningless. The membership & supportership of the Labour Party is not a political force in itself because it has no media power of its own. If they could all be co-ordinated then the members & supporters could have an effect on the social media but only a small one and certainly not a transformative one.

The media (the big media not social media) is still the most crucial field of political contest because it reaches everyone. Parliamentary party leadership is crucial to that battle in and over the media. Cameron understood that and May sees it even more clearly. Corbyn sees none of this.

Corbyn’s momentum is carrying the Labour Party into an isolation it cannot survive. An isolation from where is can take no action of any kind. A political isolation homologous to the autarkic isolation of Corbyn’s anti-EU stance. Corbyn is leading the Labour Party to a St George’s Hill of cloistered purity and not into the world.