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It’s a curriculum vitae that seems to scream Andrew Lloyd Webber

It’s a curriculum vitae that seems to scream Andrew Lloyd Webber. A theatre has been built in Europe just to accommodate one of his shows; and his wife sang many of his best known songs He is – Frank Wildhorn. THE CRITICS sneer at him; the public adore him. Audiences go in droves to his musicals, though the chattering classes claim never to have seen one. Officials say the biggest loss is caused by members moving house, and are redoubling their efforts to persuade people to pay by direct debit.

The proportion doing so rose from 34 per cent to 39 per cent last year.. When you knock on doors, people renew and that is what we must now do.”Labour’s national membership dropped from 405,200 to 391,700 in the 12 months to December, although retention had risen. He was confident that “99 per cent” of the membership would renew their subscriptions. “We are guilty of resting on our laurels; we have got to get out fingers out,” he said “But there has been no mass exodus. Phil Wilson, the membership secretary, was so successful that he was promoted to national headquarters.John Burton, Mr Blair’s constituency agent and a close ally, said yesterday that membership had dropped to 1,800, but said this was partly due to boundary changes, which took effect at the 1997 general election. People think they did their bit by getting rid of the Tories,” one official said.The fall in Sedgefield’s membership is an embarrassment because, after Mr Blair became the local MP in 1983, it became the new model constituency party. Membership soared from 600 to more than 2,000 after long- winded debates about socialism were replaced by social events.

In an attempt to spare his blushes, a door-to-door recruitment blitz is to be launched urgently.
Labour sources denied that people were resigning because they disapproved of the Government’s policies and said Sedgefield’s experience was repeated across the country.”The main problem is apathy. Officials in Labour’s north-east region say that up to one-third of the members in Mr Blair’s constituency could find their membership has lapsed unless they pay their pounds 15 annual fee soon. His Sedgefield constituency party, which attracted more than 2,000 members after replacing boring meetings with barbecues, is struggling to persuade many of them to renew their subscriptions. LABOUR PARTY membership is falling in Tony Blair’s back yard. Last month more than a thousand local and international lawyers signed a petition calling for an investigation into his death.. We have hundreds of people who have been widowed, who have been made orphans, because of this policy of collusion.”The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party dismissed the claims as “sheer unadulterated nonsense”, saying that the RUC had been put “under even greater threat as a result of these senseless and stupid remarks”.David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party, and himself a former loyalist prisoner, said Mr Philpott’s comments were “something of a Walter Mitty-style statement”.Mr Ervine added: “At best it’s a massive exaggeration and I fear it feeds into the republican mentality that loyalism can only exist at the acquiescence of the SAS.”Alex Attwood of the nationalist SDLP said: “I don’t think nationalists will draw any great conclusions from what Bobby Philpott says but I do think it places an onus on the Government to respond to the Pat Finucane affair.”This was a reference to the 1989 loyalist killing of a Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams called for a full independent inquiry into Mr Philpott’s claims, saying he had raised such issues with Tony Blair.He said: “The issue of collusion is an open secret Everybody knows it.