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A total non-story. Al parties are losing membership for a number of reasons: This from the Telegraph:
""""The collapse in Labour's grassroots membership numbers has contributed to its precarious financial position, with the party still £18 million in debt despite slashing its staff and spending.
In an official submission to the Electoral Commission, Labour admitted that its membership at the end of 2007 was 176,891.
That is scarcely 40 per cent of the 405,000 peak reached in 1997 when Tony Blair took office, and thought to be the lowest total since Labour was founded in 1900.
Total Labour membership fell by nearly 6,000 during 2007, the year Gordon Brown replaced Mr Blair as leader. It is believed to have gone on falling during the first half of this year too.
The Conservatives do not publish national membership figures, but two years ago the party estimated its total at 290,000.
During last year's Labour deputy leadership contest, Jon Cruddas, a left-wing candidate, said that the party was facing oblivion because of the collapse in its rank-and-file membership.
The accounts published by the Electoral Commission showed that Labour remains in dire financial straits. """""
It is no secret that Labour have a more difficult problem that the Conservatives.
