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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.”

By | Mon 30th December 2013 - 12:35 pm

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

  • Jack 30th Dec '13 - 12:40pm

    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.

  • Jennie 30th Dec '13 - 3:56pm

    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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