Louis Tomlinson might be far from your favourite member of One Direction, but voters have rated him as more powerful than Ed Miliband, who is his MP (or at least his family’s MP, as he’s on the road a lot).
Ed might have won his seat as an MP for Doncaster North with a 26% majority in 2010, but in the Doncaster ‘Power List’ from* The Doncaster Free Press*, Ed Miliband appeared lower than Louis, 23.
Funnily enough, Louis, for all his worldwide fame and Doncaster influence (remember when he tried to buy the Rovers, his fave football team? That didn't end very well but the local paper still thinks he's more powerful than Miliband) only came in third, behind Mayor Ros Jones and council chief executive Jo Miller.
It reminds us a lot of when we looked at how celebrities’ allegiances to parties and politicians can affect our perceptions of them. We mean, for now, Ed Miliband’s faced a bit of an embarrassment.
But if we’re looking ahead, with 60 days to go until the election, the power list could completely re-arrange, we think, especially if Louis were to confess an allegiance to Labour’s leader.
That said, a former mayor, Martin Winter, has been telling local press some embarrassing stories about Miliband which aren't really working in his favour. In the nine week run-up to Miliband’s fight for the Doncaster seat in 2005, he allegedly almost set himself alight and bought a prayer mat to cover the burn marks on his carpet.
In another moment of pure Mr Beanery, Miliband allegedly got locked into Winter’s house and had to climb out of the window to escape. Miliband later joked, reports The Telegraph: ‘I was the first person ever to make a break for freedom to get closer to Gordon Brown.’
But will he find a way to break away in time for the election? Labour and the Conservatives are both polling at 36%.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.