Ed Miliband has awful personal ratings in the polls, yet Labour are still points ahead of the Tories.
I think I know why this is.
When we all look at Ed Miliband, no-one can imagine him going to America to stand side by side with President Obama, or going to the G7 Summit and looking like he's come to fix the computer, and accidentally sat in on their photo.
Whereas his brother, David Miliband, would have slotted in quite nicely.
In fact, David Miliband would have made a meal of David Cameron and Nick Clegg (although, Nick is doing a good enough job on his own).
I'm also pretty sure, that had David Miliband won the leadership, he wouldn't have been photographed holing a copy of The Sun:
Multiple times:
People seem slightly confused with the current government, a lot of people like their policies such as the cap on benefits, the promise of a referendum on the EU, and seeing Theresa May get rid of terrorists such as Abu Hamza.
At the same time, they like hearing about Ed's energy cap proposal (despite it raising costs), reckoning with the banks (despite it giving the banks a near £2b loss in shares, and his bankers bonus tax (which seems to be a never ending pot of money).
So I believe Labour are in the lead because of their promises (most of which won't see the light of day), but can't stand the man who is promising them.
Ed only got in because of his nickname 'Red'Ed, and the unions having blind faith in a nickname, with people having blind faith in the unions and following suit.
Next year will be an interesting election, as they prefer David Cameron, but with Labour's policies.
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