UK Pirate Party More Popular Than Government on Facebook
Last month the UK Pirate Party announced that they had become officially registered. Now just weeks later the party’s popularity is increasing – they now have more Facebook supporters than the Labour government.
During August the UK’s Pirate Party became officially registered at the Electoral Commission. The biggest challenge left for the party in the short term is to increase its membership.
“Now the party can really start. It’s time for us to tell the world that we exist, to recruit members, raise funds and gear up to fight the General Election,” Pirate Party Chairman, Andrew Robinson told TorrentFreak earlier. “The officers and web team have built the framework that the party needs to get going, now it’s time for the public to make things happen,” he added.
One of the things Robinson asked people to do was join the party’s Facebook group – something which supporters have been quick to do.
“It appears the Pirate Party is more popular than the Labour Party, at least on Facebook,” says PP’s Cabalamat.
“Our group there — at the time of writing — has 6364 supporters, whereas Labour’s has only 6356. And the Pirate Party has only been in existence for a month,” he adds.
Watch out Mr Brown ;)
Well think of how many people that experience labour issues that warrant action compared to the number of pirates. Facebook is mostly popular for those ages 16-35 which happens to be the prime age for pirating.
No suprise here
why the fuck would the labour party be popular in the first place? doesn’t sound that exciting.
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That is not really very impressive, given that the Labour party are at an all time low, and Mr Brown is even lower:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/