Twitter goes in search of Gareth and Ed Miliband’s Mili-Clan – Labour party conference

Ed Miliband really likes normal people. He likes them so much, he mentioned a bunch of them in his big speech at the Labour conference in Manchester yesterday. Name-dropping celebs is so last year, it’s all about ordinary folk – Ed’s Mili-Clan. 

 

Gareth was the stand out Mili-Clan member – within minutes of Ed talking about him #gareth was trending on Twitter. Gareths all over the place were coming forward as the real Gareth. Ed had said he “worked for a software company”. It was eventually identified as Softwire, which tweeted photos of Ed’s visit. 

 

https://twitter.com/SoftwireUK/status/514422122039750656

 

Next it was the turn of two girls who mistook Ed for Benedict Cumberbatch in the park and spoke of their generation “falling into a black hole”. “We were just quoted by Ed Miliband! Cumberbatch-fanciers… that was us, right? #goodlord” tweeted Beatrice Bazell to her friend Helen Goodman. 

 

https://twitter.com/beatricebazell/status/514428703292813312

 

Let’s not forget Josephine the cleaner, Xiomara the bartender, there was Colin in his 80s whom Miliband met in hospital (now sadly departed) and Elizabeth the auto-electrician (who starred in Ed’s second ever Instagram post). Yep, Ed is Mr Normal.

 

Just don’t ask him to eat another bleeding bacon butty.