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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Labour Party Let This Cat Vote In Its Leadership Election
Source: BuzzfeedHow tough are Labours internal checks for new members? BuzzFeed News registered a cat to find out.
Amid growing concerns about outsiders infilitrating the Labour leadership race, BuzzFeed News managed to get a vote for this cat.
BuzzFeed News registered Ned, a three-year-old tabby belonging to one of our journalists, as a Labour party supporter earlier this month and he has since been sent a ballot paper, enabling us to vote in the contest for the partys next leader in the name of a cat.
This is despite Labours pledge to ensure that the hundreds of thousands of applications it received over the summer from new supporters were actually from real people who appear on the electoral roll.
Ned does not appear on the electoral roll because Ned is a cat.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/cats-always-need-better-vetting-procedures#.yq1O1mdBg
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The Labour Party Let This Cat Vote In Its Leadership Election (Original Post)
Little Tich
Aug 2015
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Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)1. Is the cat a Corbyn supporter
anti-NATO, anti-war, supporter of nationalisation?
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)5. If he's not been purged I would suspect not
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)2. Hey..don't laugh, he's probably got more on the ball than the average American voter.
840high
(17,196 posts)3. Only if he still has his balls.