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Watch: Screaming, selfie-crazed hen party mobs Ed Miliband

“SELFIE! SELFIE! SELFIE!”

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BRITISH LABOUR PARTY leader Ed Miliband was mobbed by a screaming hen party while canvassing for the upcoming general election.

During a visit to Chester in Cheshire over the weekend, the Labour’s battle bus was descended upon by two-dozen screaming women.

The Chester Chronicle reports that one of the hens spotted the bus when she popped out of the group’s hotel for a cigarette. The entire entourage soon followed.

As he attempted to step off the bus, he faced chants of ‘selfie’. It all became a bit too much for the Labour leader, and he retreated.

The bride-to-be was let on to the bus for a chat and photo with Miliband.

Labour has been overtaken by the Tories in the most recent opinion poll in the United Kingdom, the Guardian reports.

Its currently looking like yet another hung parliament for Westminster as the election campaigns enter their final two weeks.

The Conservatives stand at 36%, Labour at 32%, Ukip at 13%, the Scottish National Party at 8%, and Greens at 5%.

Read: David Cameron didn’t show up for a debate – and it might cost him dearly >

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    Mute Skipper Mac
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:21 AM

    Course the media over there bear no responsibility for this mess. Purer than driven snow they are. Impartiality and accuracy………

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    Mute Mushy Peas
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:24 AM

    @Skipper Mac: and do the Irish media take responsibility for our current political landscape?

    It’s almost a big a mess as it is over there in terms of Health, Housing, Economy, the list goes on…

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    Mute Tomás O'Loughlin
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:33 AM

    @Skipper Mac: If course they don’t. You think the Irish media has a hand in this defeat? Nonsense, this is 100% the Tories fault. May’s stupid red lines leading to a deal that pleases no one. The fault is all in Westminster.

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Mar 13th 2019, 11:04 AM

    @Skipper Mac: Well the media along with the Brexiteers have to share the blame for a no vote in the referendum in 2016.

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    Mute John R
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    Mar 13th 2019, 11:16 AM

    @Mushy Peas: Hardly the point. The Irish media have not recommended that our nation jump off a cliff in the expectation of a miracle. Many in the U.K. media have done just that and lied through their teeth.

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    Mute Larry Roe
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:20 AM

    i have great respect for theresa may,there

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    Mute John Quill
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    Mar 13th 2019, 10:55 AM

    @Larry Roe: I respect her tenacity but shes’s made a series of disastrous mistakes since taking office that has landed her where she is now. for example, calling a GE, getting into bed with the DUP, doing solo runs with the EU, pandering to the ERG and so on. Time for her to go now.

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    Mute Jane
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:26 AM

    I was watching last night just after the result and she was getting up to speak and I was thinking wouldn’t it be great if she said
    right…f*ck ye all….I’m going home

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    Mute Patricia Mcnamara
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:58 AM

    @Jane: that would have been fantastic. I’m not a Brit gov fan but I think Theresa may is a great woman. She took on an impossible task from Blair. No one could solve the mess

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    Mute Nigel o'Neill
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:12 AM

    @Patricia Mcnamara: from Blair?? David Cameron, was the Tory PM she took over from when he lost the referendum he foolishly called to put the Euro sceptics in his party to bed..

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    Mute Patricia Mcnamara
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:43 AM

    @Nigel o’Neill: sorry, you are right of course.

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    Mute Tony Harris
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    Mar 13th 2019, 11:21 AM

    @Jane: literaly laughed out loud! That would have been my course of action…

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    Mute Terry McClatchey
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    Mar 13th 2019, 12:28 PM

    @Patricia Mcnamara: He was right and also kind enough to not mention that there was also another Prime Minister between Blair and Cameron – Gordon Brown.

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    Mute Patricia Mcnamara
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    Mar 13th 2019, 12:59 PM

    @Terry McClatchey: true.l am not informed enough.

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    Mute Connor Saváge
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:37 AM

    ….The British, a sound group of lads.
    Is there anything to be said for another mass?

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    Mute Daniel Finucane
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:52 AM

    @Connor Saváge: hi dude

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    Mute David A. Murray
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:17 AM

    If I were May I think I’d go on a foul-mouthed rant in Parliament then storm out and go on a year long sabbatical in India.

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    Mute ted hagan
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    Mar 13th 2019, 1:57 PM

    @David A. Murray: What did India ever do to you?

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    Mute Padraig Salah
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:28 AM

    I get the feeling we are all being hood winked by the brits and we are watching a deliberate pantomine.

    In england right now on billboards signs on bus stops etc theres all sorts of advice about what to do now for leaving eu. In the background the new post eu rules r being implemented rapidly.

    Its like whats happening in parliament is all a fugazi.

    Its a remarkable situation.

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    Mute Pip
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:40 AM

    She must be getting paid a fortune! It’s a no win and all they’re doing is playing games with her and those who elected them. Yer man Mogg had made 17,000,000 pounds out of brexit investments already. She would actually be better off this morning by simply saying, see you all later!

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    Mute 2thFairy
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    Mar 13th 2019, 8:01 AM

    The journalists and media outlets are as useless as that lot in Westminster. They are just as guilty for this whole mess due to sensational journalism. They have absolutely no idea what’s going on either or how to report what’s going on so they just resort to mud-slinging.
    The UK have no intelligence with those that have a voice on their behalf.

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    Mute John R
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    Mar 13th 2019, 11:19 AM

    @2thFairy: Except that some in the U.K. media have been resolute in opposing Brexit by reference to facts and the much derided “expert”. However, your point holds largely true for many in the media and the BBC now derided as the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 4 by contrast have engaged in factual reporting. We live in a strange age to be sure.

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    Mute ted hagan
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    Mar 13th 2019, 2:00 PM

    @2thFairy:
    All journalists or do you mean some journalists?

    As for: ‘The UK have no intelligence with those that have a voice on their behalf’.
    I don’t know what it means, but it’s priceless all the same.

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    Mute Nigel o'Neill
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:11 AM

    Big Media and especially the Print Media in the UK are so partisan, that they are a huge part of the overall problem that has led everything to this ridiculous point

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    Mute ⚡ Seánie ⚡
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    Mar 13th 2019, 7:23 AM

    So….. What’s happening????

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    Mute Patricia Mcnamara
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:02 AM

    @⚡ Seánie ⚡: go back to sleep seanie. Nothin has happened in 2 years no exit
    EU is constipated.they can’t shit the UK out.

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    Mute Garreth Byrne
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:47 AM

    BANNER HEADLINE WRITERS WORKING OVERTIME.
    SEVERAL HEADLINE WRITERS ON VERGE OF SUICIDE
    HEADLINE WRITERS UNION THREATENS STRIKE
    I’M SICK OF THIS – LET’S GO FOR A PINT

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    Mute Patricia Mcnamara
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    Mar 13th 2019, 10:05 AM

    Cut the umbilical EU cord the baby who, will be born will be very handicapped. Let there be an end to brexit.

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    Mute Fergal Pigat
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    Mar 13th 2019, 12:11 PM

    Great Article, to see an Helicopter view of how the Horror show is being reported :-( I don’t envy our neighbors and also ourselves in how it will impact us

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    Mute David cotter
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    Mar 13th 2019, 9:45 PM

    The whole world is watching Westminster and it’s beyond an incompetent embarrassment
    These careerist politicians just don’t care about the public just their pensions,expenses,reelection prospect and some obscure delusion of empire….
    Just leave the EU
    France me old mate ..block up Calais and see how they like a 60 mile tailback

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