Just a very quick note to ask local party officers to make sure they are planning some urgent communication with members.
One of the tangible benefits of Cleggmania was a surge in membership and support across the country, so many local parties now have significantly more members than they did before the election. For many of these people, this will be the first members’ newsletter they receive, so do please design your communication with this in mind.
For those of you who are preparing a newsletter, Lib Dem Voice has a regular newsletter insert. The General Election special is a cut-out-and-keep edition with a full list of Lib Dem MPs which should stop you having to type it out all over again yourself.
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Having rejoined the party after a 5 year gap, I have to say that communication to new party members has vastly improved. The members welcome pack is much better that whatever you had before. The email communications make me feel like I’m part of it and the PPC has emailed too, thanking us for our hard work and inviting everyone to the pub next week.
Part of the reason I never renewed 5 years ago was that I received my membership card and that was more or less it for the year. No contact with my local branch (I suspect they didn’t know I existed) and I didn’t feel valued or involved. As Alex says, communications with members is really important. I’m looking forward to receiving more information!
I can give you all a bit of advice for nothing:
IF Clegg takes a deal with Cameron/Tories you will lose an awful lot of party support, an awful lot. It will be the end of the LibDems, for a very long time. he will have sold all of them out. Remember my words!
Deal with Brown and we only need another 5-7 votes from the Alliance, Greens or SNP (this is not an issue!)
“Cleggmania” is an anti-Lib Dem piece of spin terminology. It was invented by our enemies to convey the idea of a silly nine-days wonder. The truth is that Nick won the reform argument, but FPTP squeezed voters into settling for second-best.
We must not use the word “Cleggmania”!
I can give Barry some advice – if Clegg takes a deal with Labour, he’ll lose an awful lot of party support too…
And if we dont play a part in solving the problems of the nation, what are we in politics for – are we just a “Taypayers Alliance/Desmos” type pressure group of ideas but not willing to sully our hands with power?
The Lib Lab Pact of 1978 was not a coalition, it lasted 15 months, and provided financial stability, lowering interest rates greatly (from 19 per cent to 12.5 per cent), unemployment fell, also, and on the first day of the pact the stock market rose, and the pound rose. The Labour Party began to realise that talk of nationalisation, and socialism, was also pretty futile (and 30 MPs broke off and formed the SDP a few years later). Much came out of it.
“If Gordon Brown doesnt share power round his own cabinet, what hope is there of him giving much to Nick Clegg, its very clever of Nick Clegg to up the anti with Cameron by talking to Brown. He is trying to scare the Tories by talking to Brown. Cameron has the right to govern, he will be Prime Minister, and he doesnt need Clegg to govern, he could govern without him, coalitions do not work, there is not a single MP who does not think there will not be another election in the next 18 months, its inevitable, nobody wants it, but its going to happen. Nobody has the stomach or the cash to go through the whole process again, so hopefully it will be a shorter one.”
– Editor of the Spectator to Sky News.
@Barry
>>>IF Clegg takes a deal with Cameron/Tories you will lose an awful lot of party support, an awful lot. It will be the end of the LibDems, for a very long time. he will have sold all of them out. Remember my words!
@Dave Page
>>>I can give Barry some advice – if Clegg takes a deal with Labour, he’ll lose an awful lot of party support too…
Come one guys, get real. Can you people not stfu and let Nick and his team get on with it. I will vote Lib Dem whatever happens. This is the reality. The electors understand this – they voted Liberal Democrat to enable their Liberal Democrat representatives to pursue a Liberal Democratic agenda in as best a way as possible. This is what is currently happening. Hysterical entryists will always be fair-weather friends and as far I am concerned, the party should pay them no heed. Get behind the party or get out of the party. End. Of.
>>>I will vote Lib Dem whatever happens.
Same here – as a fourth generation Liberal (Lib Dem) – we either hang together or………….
The Lib-Lab deal would need others to work but by that point we would have PR agreed and in place, when the next election was called. We would also have solved some of the financial problems with Cable, Darling and Brown working together.
Don’t you lot ever stop being short-sighted and naive. You are letting the tories and right wing press rule your lives!