The Spoof Ed Miliband Tinder Account Is Genius

Could this be (almost) exactly what Nev and Max from Catfish are after when they ask for high profile Catfishers?

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by Sophie Wilkinson |
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Labour leader Ed Miliband is married to Justine Thornton and, as far as we're made aware of through various well-timed photocalls, they're very happy together. However, that hasn't stopped some prankster (albeit one with the time to change their Facebook name to Ed and their profile photo to one of Ed Miliband) from pretending to be the Labour leader on dating app Tinder.

His bio reads: 'One nation kind of guy. Strained relationship with my brother. WLTM like-minded voters.' And the pretence doesn't stop there, as one user, who right-swiped him, presumably for a lol, screengrabbed their chats. Some of stuff he comes out with is straight from the party's manifesto and the real Ed Miliband's speeches: 'Each one of us has a part to play, and only by uniting will we build the better, fairer country that Britain deserves to be.'

But most of it is un-PC innuendo, the likes of which we'll never hear actual Ed say, such as, 'The red flag is rising as we speak', 'I'd probably start with your squeezed middle' and 'You want to see my poll?' Buzzfeed has all the screengrabs of the conversation, and they're pretty funny.

But we must pass our commiserations over to Nev and Max from Catfish. See, their dream scenario is to see someone politically affiliated or 'high-born' catfishing someone in order to find a real-deal relationship not predicated on their fame or power.

In an exclusive clip from the show shared by MTV, Max said: 'There is one situation that we keep hoping for… which is that someone — a royal or an aristocrat or someone very high-born — is going online and… essentially slumming it.'

Nev continued: '…In the hopes of finding someone who loves them for them, not their fame or money or status. If Malia Obama had a fake profile so she could meet boys… and we get the guy and he’s like, "Yeah, I’ve been talking to this girl. Her name’s Jackie, she seems great, she lives in D.C.." And we go there and the address is, like, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! [The White House]'

Well, just in case it's impossible to find a famous person going incognito as a normal person to find love, they can definitely find a non-famous person going incognito as a famous person to take the piss out of them/spread their political message in a lolsy way. If that's any consolation.

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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.

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