Apparently, we’ve now had 18,000 new membership applications since the election, and Head Office are falling over themselves trying to find out who the new members are.

No doubt some are disaffected Liberal Democrats who can’t stomach a coalition with the Tories. But given the up-coming leadership election, it wouldn’t surprise me if many were simply ordinary supporters who don’t want to miss one of the few chances we get to change how things are run.

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