12 Things Ed Miliband Wants You To Forget

Parliament has been dissolved, there are no longer technically any MPs and the six-week General Election campaigns have started - all in anticipation of the British public going to the ballot box on May 7 to vote for who they wish to be the leader of the next government. The man who is looking to wrestle control of the Houses of Commons back into Labour hands and take-up his first term as Prime Minister in the process is 45-year-old Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband - who has served as Leader of the Opposition throughout almost the entirety of David Cameron's stay at Number 10 Downing Street to date. Miliband was a somewhat surprise choice to be Labour leader back in September 2010, but since his election he has attempted to push the party back towards the left and to establish himself as a credible alternative to Prime Minister Cameron. Unfortunately for Ed Miliband, his attempts to position himself as Prime-Minister-in-waiting have achieved mixed results at best. For this is a man who hardly endeared himself the British public when he stabbed his own brother in the back in order to become Labour leader, who made himself appear completely out of touch with society when he claimed he spent just £70 on his weekly shop for his family of four, and someone who cannot even eat a bacon sandwich without appearing ridiculous... So here are 12 things the Labour leader Ed Miliband wants you to forget when you go to the polls on May 7...