Milifandom

English Etymology en Miliband fandom. Noun - en colloquial UK politics An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party. en The Guardian Rebecca Ratcliffe 21 April 2015 Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/22/milifandom-soars-with-twitter-backing-for-labour-leader-ed-miliband Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013152434/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/22/milifandom-soars-with-twitter-backing-for-labour-leader-ed-miliband 13 October 2026 en Daily Mail Sara Malm 25 June 2015 The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3139808/At-loves-Ed-Former-Labour-leader-Miliband-meets-17-year-old-founder-Milifandom-movement.html https://web.archive.org/web/20251202072942/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3139808/At-loves-Ed-Former-Labour-leader-Miliband-meets-17-year-old-founder-Milifandom-movement.html 2 December 2025 en Five Million Conversations: How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots Iain Watson 2015 That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom. https://books.google.com/books?id=uhi6CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT150&dq=%22Milifandom%22&pg=PT150#v=onepage&q=%22Milifandom%22&f=false en The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster Robert Colvile 2016 So I jokingly suggested to an excolleague at BuzzFeed via Twitter that this could be her next piece, since she'd been the first to uncover the 'Milifandom' (the band of teenage girls who had developed swooning, semiironic crushes on Labour leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 eelection campaign). https://books.google.com/books?id=PpHKCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT107&dq=%22Milifandom%22&pg=PT107#v=onepage&q=%22Milifandom%22&f=false en The Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/milifandom-taken-whole-new-level-7164231 Milifandom taken to whole new level as teen fan gets Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh Dan Bloom A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh. 12 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20250127000607/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/milifandom-taken-whole-new-level-7164231 27 January 2025 en http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eu-referendum-ground-war-battle-between-vote-leave-and-britain-stronger-in-europe_uk_576a78b7e4b0bd8c923bd20e The Huffington Post How The ‘Ground War’, And Digital Targeting, Will Decide The EU Referendum Result 22 June 2016 And after Milifandom signally failed to shift votes in places like Nuneaton, the PM told last year’s post-election party conference ‘Britain and Twitter are not the same thing’. Paul Waugh https://web.archive.org/web/20241013111823/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eu-referendum-ground-war-battle-between-vote-leave-and-britain-stronger-in-europe_uk_576a78b7e4b0bd8c923bd20e 13 October 2024 Related terms en Milifan Further reading en eponyms en Fandom