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Corbyn has caused a massive spike in Labour membership, but has not been able to translate that into a great deal of activism outside of campaigning for Corbyn in internal leadership contests.
Labour has an enormous paper membership, but really struggles to get the best out of it. And on this score Labour actually compare really badly with rival parties.
As an example, we have county council elections due in a few weeks. The Tories have heavily targeted the ward where I live, bringing in activists from further afield. But for Labour it still seems to be the same husband & wife couple (one of whom is the incumbent councillor) doing all the leafleting. This is one of the big reasons why it looks very likely that we will lose a very good Labour councillor.
It gets worse when you look at Momentum, who are more interested with protesting against the New Statesman for not offering 30 pages of uncritical pro-Corbyn coverage or calling for Tom Watson to be replaced as Labour's deputy leader by Emily Thornberry of all people. 
In fact the more you look at Momentum, the more angry you get about the way that all that energy Corbyn and his followers originally brought to the table is being wasted on petty infighting rather than working to avoid an electoral bloodbath.
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