Milifandom

English

Etymology

Blend of Miliband +‎ fandom.

Noun

Milifandom (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, UK politics) An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party.
   • 2015 April 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband”, in The Guardian‎:

     Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”.

   • 2015 June 25, Sara Malm, Daily Mail‎:

     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.

   • 2015, Iain Watson, Five Million Conversations: How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots‎:

     That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom.

   • 2016, Robert Colvile, The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster‎:

     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).

   • 2016 January 12, Dan Bloom, “Milifandom taken to whole new level as teen fan gets Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh”, in The Mirror‎:

     A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh.

   • 2016 June 22, Paul Waugh, “How The ‘Ground War’, And Digital Targeting, Will Decide The EU Referendum Result”, in The Huffington Post‎:

     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’.

Related terms

• Milifan

Further reading

• Milifandom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia