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Members have deserted Cameron’s Conservatives, but Brown has enticed more to join Labour

David Cameron likes to pretend that he leads a different party to Thatcher, Major, and Hague, but the truth is that it’s the same old Tory party, with the emphasis on the old. Far from attracting new support, Cameron’s Conservatives have lost members since he became leader and the rest of his frontbench aren’t faring any better either, as the News of the World reveals:

“Secret party documents show 40,000 supporters have left since David Cameron took over as leader three years ago.

And the slump has ACCELERATED over the past year with the constituencies of Shadow Cabinet members among the worst hit…

The ageing membership is dying off and the party is failing to attract youngsters.

Yet Labour has managed to stabilise its membership decline… since Gordon Brown became PM last July the decline has halted and Labour has managed to entice 10,000 new members.

In contrast, a fifth of Conservative Associations across the country have lost one in five of their members. And half of them have seen their membership drop by ten per cent.”

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