Latham’s lure

Those pundits who have questioned whether it would be good for us to have Mark Latham join the Liberal Democrats might be interested to know that when I logged into our database on the weekend after it was announced, we had just gained about 50 new members.

Some of our new members may have joined after being disappointed with the government’s Labor-lite budget, but there’s no doubt that Mark’s announcement encouraged people to have a closer look at us and got them talking about our policies.