tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post2456088110029697446..comments2024-01-27T00:32:05.370+00:00Comments on Paul Canning: Labour isn't Europe's biggest partypaulocanninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499916652508144662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post-35769566824093702392016-10-06T14:16:46.729+01:002016-10-06T14:16:46.729+01:00Well, somewhere I heard that the Labour Party of B...Well, somewhere I heard that the Labour Party of Britain has the largest membership of any other Western European country. This is also false. Nobody has even mentioned the Popular Party in Spain. They have around 800,000 members. They used to have approximately 865,000 members, but after some cases of corruption were unveiled there were some 60,000 who left the party. But as it currently stands the PP of Spain is the largest political party in Western Europe. Led by Mariano Rajoy the PP won te 2011 general elections and have been in government since.<br />The Labour Party is the second largest. Since the reelection of Jeremy Corbyn as the party leader announced on Saturday 24th September the LP membership has surpased the 600,000. It may be a bit adventurous to predict that the LP will get over the 800,000 members. Even if it does that is not the main objective. For we are aware that the big challenge ahead is to try to win the support of larger sectors of the electorate nationwide, particularly in the countryside. Whether that will be possible will very much depen on the needs of the population but also more importantly, much more importantly, on the understanding of the British public as to how realistically these needs can be met by the Labour Part led by Jeremy Corbyn. He is a leader of a nature that has no precedent in the modern history of Western Europe. He is far more than just an honest person who has unreservedly and without hesitation constantly fought for what he belueves is best for most people. He has a very broad and deep understanding of not only his country but the world as a whole. This may not be immediatelly apparent to the wider public but he is certainly one of the very few top progresist and humanitarian, to say the least, politcians in the entire world. It is worth to watch him and listen to what he says carefully without jumping into conclusions influenced either by the media or by our ideological principles. This country will make headlines worldwide for a prolonged period if he is elected Prime Minister. Even in the runing up to a general election, if the polls show a rise in the support to the Labour Party led by him, people of all sorts of political ideas, religious beliefs, or even those who have never paid attention to politics because they understandably believe 'politicians are all the same' will wake up and will not stop following the news of the political arena in the United Kingdom.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01999573907440953670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387284174922871714.post-37997891655616959912016-08-23T17:08:32.095+01:002016-08-23T17:08:32.095+01:00utter bullshit or... how to lie with statistics ~ ...utter bullshit or... how to lie with statistics ~ no evidence whatsoever. your graph dates you claim are from 2013 yet click the link and the claim is that figures are from no later than 2009. either way *pre*Corbyn who, as a result of engaging with the electorate, has seen a massive surge in Labour membership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com