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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot

#JeSuisEd hashtag backs Ed Miliband over Sun front page

Ed Miliband showing how it's done, tucking into a bacon sandwich.
Ed Miliband showing how it’s done, tucking into a bacon sandwich. Photograph: Ben Cawthra/REX

In case you missed Wednesday’s Sun front page, and practically every derogatory piece that’s ever been printed about Ed Miliband, the Labour leader’s main weakness is his poor sandwich-eating technique.

With just over 12 hours until polls open, and with mounting public feeling, the Sun’s pig-themed front page has inspired the hashtag #JeSuisEd.

The messy-eater selfies are intended to give the Labour leader some comfort that none of us look exactly prime ministerial when eating a breakfast buttie.

For most tweeters, a #solidaritysandwich was the obvious choice.

But carb-conscious folk didn’t let themselves be limited...

After all, even supermodels don’t look great with a big mouthful of lunch...

And awkward-eating straddles the political spectrum...

It even affects multi-millionaire media moguls...

And if you try to avoid it by eating a hot dog with a knife and fork (which is probably in contravention of some kind of US law), you’ll still definitely look silly.

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