So who’s right: Labour activists or Prezza?
Over the past few weeks, Labour activists have filled the blogosphere and Twitter feeds with stories about how much Labour Party membership is growing and how many thousands of Liberal Democrats have joined them. The numbers have grown week on week, so much so that I am surprised not to find that Nick Clegg and I are the only members left. It began to remind me of the propaganda radio station broadcast into Allied POW camps in Germany, where the tonnage of British ships reported sunk each week was recorded by the prisoners until it could be proved that bin only a few months, the German’s battleships had allegedly sunk the entire British Fleet many times over.
Now no other than former Deputy Prime Minister and candidate for Party Treasurer John Prescott has revealed that those propaganda figures were exactly that. Writing in The Guardian he says:
“The Labour party stands on the verge of bankruptcy. We are more than £20m in debt, facing a long-term decline in membership and a crisis in funding.”
So, who is right. The bragging Labour activists or John Prescott? Prescott is of course in the middle of an election campaign. Surely he wouldn’t tell porkies just to try to win an election…
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