Well it seems that there are 11.
I was at the filming of the mayoral debate for ITV, each party was allowed 12 supporters for the audience. Across the whole of London the Lib Dems could only manage to drum up 11 supporters. To fill the numbers the TV people had to draft in an "extra".
When you watch it spare a thought for the young man sitting next to me at the back. When he arrived the conversation went something like this:
Floor manager: Hi, can you show your rosette please?
Extra: OK, how about that?
FM: Bit more please.
E: OK?
FM: No I still can't see it. I need to see it.
E. Better?
FM: Look, either put the rosette on the jacket or take the jacket off.
E: OK, there you go.
Poor guy, by this time everyone was looking at him. He sat quietly throughout the event doing his best to look like a Lib Dem.
He rather blew his cover at the end when he took his Lib Dem rosette (the one he had tried so hard to hide) and walked up to Boris and asked him to sign it.
Oooooooooooooooooops!
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not quite right on this, though you're close...
Cleverly spotted!
I have read about this in other places. In reality, I doubt that there aren't even a dozen LibDem supporters in the whole of London, but it makes a good story, and does remind us that their support is rather patchy...
It just means that when people drop out at the last minute (like I did) they struggle to find replacements at the last minute . . .
How Conservatives supporters were selected any idea?
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