Lib Dem HQ tweets: “Dear Twitterbots, we are happy with our 2000 new party members. We do not need your offers of 5000 new followers.”

Those scamps in the Lib Dem press office have clearly had a good Christmas, judging by their Twitter timeline this morning following up on the news that the party’s membership has increased in 2013

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7 Comments

  • Woo! Yay!

    Your membership has only fallen by 34% whilst in power not 35% as before!

  • Eddie Sammon 30th Dec '13 - 2:21pm

    Misleading and too much spin from the Lib Dem press office. These targets and pressure sales tactics from the Lib Dem membership campaign are also wrong.

  • Eddie Sammon 30th Dec '13 - 2:28pm

    I might be being a bit pedantic, but we need to stop using this 2,000 figure when the net increase of 7-800 is the more accurate one to use. It seems every time one of the main parties publishes a stat it’s been fudged, and people wonder why voters are angry.

  • I love Alex’s tweet lol

  • John Farrand-Rogers 30th Dec '13 - 7:25pm

    Spot on, Tony. And if local parties could retain 80% of the membership subs, just image what would happen!

  • Chris Manners 31st Dec '13 - 8:19pm

    Are there any free memberships in this, perhaps?

    Not that you’re the only party who’d do that sort of thing, of course.

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