Bacon sandwich solidarity trends on Twitter on eve of UK vote

[WorldNews]

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A humorous social media trend declaring solidarity with Labour leader Ed Miliband went viral on the eve of Thursday's election, which will decide whether he becomes British prime minister. Supporters of Miliband, whose awkward manner was definingly captured in a much re-produced photo of him eating a bacon sandwich, uploaded pictures of themselves messily eating food in solidarity. "I will never vote based on how a candidate eats food," wrote physics and maths student Henry Legg with a photo of himself with a banana. Many users expressed anger that the bacon sandwich image had been put on the front page of The Sun, a newspaper owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, the day before the vote.

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