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Did anyone see Ed Milliband rescue the fallen cyclist?


"Suave." Milliband to the rescue.
“Suave.” Milliband to the rescue.

Today, we read in the Camden New Journal that Labour leader and high profile Kentishtowner Ed Milliband jumped to the rescue when cyclist Ella Phillips flipped over her handlebars outside Kentish Town tube station.

Ella, an education coordinator at the October Gallery in Holborn, was full of praise and thanks for Milliband’s heroic actions, whisking her away onto the pavement from the traffic. He “looked very concerned,” she said, blinking her eyes open.

Ella Phillips. Photo: October Gallery
Ella Phillips. Photo: October Gallery
In fact, it looks like Ella was quite taken with her hero, who appeared “suave. What added to the confusion was that he was actually attractive and not geeky at all.”

Cripes, was it love at first sight then? Not quite, but “he was dressed casually and had style.” And, inevitably, she’ll “definitely be voting for him now”.


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The incident was all confirmed by Milliband’s spokesman, but we simply want to know: did anyone actually witness it? What was Ed wearing? And where had he been – to pick up a whole salmon from Harry’s, perhaps? Or, in his valiant rescue attempt, did he spill a hastily-clutched cappuccino from Bean About Town? We need to learn the minutiae.

And, on another note, how the devil didn’t we hear about the incident until today?


5 thoughts on “Did anyone see Ed Milliband rescue the fallen cyclist?”

  1. I didn’t witness this incident but as he lives around the corner I did see him helping one of his kids with an umbrella around Christmas time, which was very gentlemanly of him… Actually, they looked very sweet.

  2. If a suave, attractive, stylish yet casually dressed Party leader ‘saves’ someone in a busy, built-up area, and no one saw it, tweeted about it, or told anyone they know…did it really happen?

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5 thoughts on “Did anyone see Ed Milliband rescue the fallen cyclist?”

  1. I didn’t witness this incident but as he lives around the corner I did see him helping one of his kids with an umbrella around Christmas time, which was very gentlemanly of him… Actually, they looked very sweet.

  2. If a suave, attractive, stylish yet casually dressed Party leader ‘saves’ someone in a busy, built-up area, and no one saw it, tweeted about it, or told anyone they know…did it really happen?

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