#Milifandom explained
Last year Ed Miliband gave a speech about image, and photoshoots and looks.
He was basically decrying the whole image-obsessed political landscape and attempting to paint himself as the serious politician who cared more about creating the right policies than posing with huskies, (which David Cameron famously did as leader of the opposition).
So Mr Miliband, the self-confessed geek who struggled so publicly to eat a bacon sandwich, must have been surprised as the rest of us at the source of his new found support network: teenage girls on Twitter.
Young Labour supporting women have seen one too many sneering commentaries on their beloved leader and have decided enough is enough.
In a tribal show of support they have turned their attentions, and their selfies, on to Mr Miliband creating a fandom support network normally focused on teenage pop groups. And it looks like its working.
In true teenage fandom style the #Cameronettes are hitting back with pictures of the Conservative leader and One Direction. I wonder if both leaders are wishing they’d given 16-year-olds the vote?
Although they also have their heads firmly screwed on.
But Twitter clearly doesn’t.