About those Tory membership figures…

Tory HQ seems very keen to talk about their membership figures today, after recording a minuscule increase in membership over the past months after absolutely no administrative jiggery-pokery whatsoever.

But over the past 9 years since Cameron became Tory leader, their membership has slumped by over 100,000. Lets see how that looks:

There are parties in the UK today who can feel quite pleased with their membership growth (UKIP and the SNP in particular seem t be recording sizeable increases in membership). But the Tory Party (and Labour for that matter) have far less to celebrate on that score…