Although Buzzfeed managed to successfully register a cat to vote in the Labour leadership election, the party remains insistent that they are successfully weeding out ‘supporters’ who are not genuine.
However, in a sign that they may not have quite as good a grasp on these checks as claimed, it turns out that they are asking school children to help by acting as whistleblowers on fellow pupils.
Writing in the Guardian, Tim Dowling claims that his 17-year-old son — whose six-month membership means he is ‘considered something of a senior figure in the party’ — has been contacted by Labour to offer the inside scoop on his classmates who have applied to vote in the election:
‘It’s not about his application – he joined six months ago, and appears to be considered something of a senior figure in the party – but about those of two boys in his year at school.
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