The Poke guide to the Labour leadership election

Poke Staff. Updated July 22nd, 2015

So, farewell Ed Miliband, you weaving gonk, begone! Cast into the outer darkness, no more to torment us with your face like a startled broom peering up from the bottom of a haunted well.

We can do better than an Opposition leader who looks like a prefect at a school for worms! We don’t need to be honked at by a goose doing a Leslie Phillips impression any more!

We’ve got tons of new candidates!

Exciting, vibrant candidates with radical policy suggestions and household name recognition. They will lead us forward by doing the same things as the other ones, but maybe being slightly less-despicable as they do.

What’s extra-exciting about the Labour leadership election this time around is that you can get involved even if you’re not a party member. In an attempt to engage voters, and get leadership candidates with real popular appeal, Labour has opened up the process so that anyone can vote (but you still have to choose from amongst Labour MPs, it’s much like a choice of which fish you’d most like to kiss).

So, how should you use your new-found electoral power? Never fear, The Poke’s here to tell you in our Guide to the Labour leadership election! By Nathaniel Tapley.

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