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Originally Posted by Mick
They should, it’s the membership base which campaigns door to door. If you piss off the membership base, squander your election chances with zero help with campaigning.
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Maybe but again the Tories have never been a campaigning force on the ground. It's something they've tried to address with battle buses and so on but it's been difficult for them. They are usually more about the 'air war', i.e media campaigning.
Membership is more important for Labour as a higher % of their funding comes from them and they do depend on a lot of door-to-door campaigning.
It's one reason Labour are in trouble as they had two elections in three years which depleted funds and then lost a lot of members.