To think how ed miliband looks or eats is not going to effect how he runs the country

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It really annoys me why does it matter if he has two kitchens or eats a bacon sandwich wrong. Why do people scrutinise him so much and not Cameron.

I'm Not even a labour voter but it just brings politics so far down.

Tbh i will never like this man after what he did to be brother! How many kitchens, what he eats etc doesnt matter after how he treated his brother.

I think DC gets scrutinised too. I agree that it is awful that so much of the British campaigning has come down to insulting each other instead of promoting each party's own policies.

well at least that's a genuine reason to dislike him (whether right or wrong)

I agree op. I am 100% sure though at ballott box people wont be ticking thinking of mental pics of who can eat the sarnie with more grace

I don't like him, but it's pathetic that the only way parties seem to be campaigning is to insult each other, if your party was that good, you'd be doing well on your own merit, rather than because you've pointed out that so and so has a silly haircut or that that one eats funny!

The eating is irrelevant. The two kitchens is an indication of how wealthy he is, and the gulf that lies between his wealth and that of the people he purports to represent.

But most politicians, in the US as well as in the UK, are wealthier than the vast majority of their constituents. Running for national-level political office (here at least) is expensive and time-consuming, most non-rich people couldn't afford to do it.

What did he do to his brother? Was one more entitled to the job than the other?

Genuine question, too busy to follow ins and outs.

Agree OP

It may sound naïve of me (and actually Agent, I agree that it was a bit hypocritical regarding how it was put about) but I don't think there's anything wrong with having an expensive house and championing the little guy or the lower classes. It bothers me that he specifically is another posh boy lying his way through elections, but the general premise, I'd have no problem with someone who used to be a hard working gardener becoming a politician, having a £2m house and trying to help others who are where they were before.

I don't even see what's so weird about the way he eats the bacon sandwich.

He's the party leader I'd most happily spend an evening in the pub with. He'd come in handy on the quiz I bet, and would definitely know more about pop music than DC.

He sort of pulled the rug from under his brother's feet. He surprised him by running for leader at the same time as him without prior warning. Nothing awful really, but some people saw it as putting his career above his brother's feelings.

Eds the fall guy, the stooge, never going to win. His brother will be leader after another Tory led coalition.

On the one hand I think it's ridiculous, and on the other it shows what an utterly talentless politician he is - it should have occurred to him that he'd be found out for having two kitchens and as a labour pm, this is exactly the sort of tripe the media love as it's a little bit personal and people feel they can judge it when really it's trivial. The bullingdon club stuff is similar for dc - who cares what he did when he was a very young adult? All lowest common denominator politics.

I think people need to ignore the spin and listen to what the policies are

Ed Milliband is not a bad man - he has compassion, he is interested in people and what they have to say, he is motivate by a really strong moral stance on poverty and inequality and I couldn't care what he looks like eating

I am voting for a party and it's policies though - not it's leader

I wish he would sound the 't' at the ends of words that have a 't' at the end.

Ed Milliband is a rich, career politician who tried to fool the electorate into thinking he was like them by pretending his kitchen is like ordinary peoples. I am a Labour supporter but there is no way on God's green earth I'll ever vote for him.

Im really conflicted about this election they all seem to be rich boys who have no idea about how the majority of people they think its all benefits Britain fgs

I can't say I really had an opinion on him before

And this kitchen business doesn't make me change that lack of opinion

But

I'm fed up of people thinking I'm stupid, that obviously wasn't his "proper" kitchen...we all know that in his lovely big fuck off house he has a lovely big fuck off kitchen

And yes I'm taking it personally

Oooh and I agree with joni

No-one would know he had 2 kitchens if he had been filmed in the proper one. He didn't because it would not look 'man of the people'. I have no problem with him being rich, but with him continually going on about DC being rich and therfore out of touch.

I'm with joni too.

I don't care that he has two kitchens, but I do care that he chose to be photographed in the grotty one with the intention of misleading the public into thinking he's the same as us!

You've gotta hand it to Sarah Vine and her DH. They really know how to dominate the narrative. And people think that Gove is courteous!

He sold out his brother by getting into bed with the unions. Not the people, the unions, who have way too much power and abuse it. So everything he will do will be to follow the union line....not all the people in the country, but the unions, and then only those who make a loud noise, not all their members.

Ultimately I think its very easy to sling mud at the opponents if you really don't have a realistic plan of how to run the country.

Ive seen labour headline kvetching on about the tories, but nothing really concrete from them, other than wildly popular plans without any financial consideration about how they will pay for all these schemes.

YABU, if Cameron was an equal buffoon he would be equally discussed.