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What endeared me most to my current MP David Lammy was reading about his first job at KFC and how it prepared him for the world of politics. It reminded me that Labour does have a history of folk from working backgrounds (funny that, what with their name and everything), and in the likes of Lammy and Alan Johnson—the former Tesco shelf stacker and postman—I see a party fit to call itself an alternative to the Tories.While they might be a party for the culturally regressive and financially fortunate, at least the Conservatives have never really attempted to disguise their position as such. Labour, on the other hand, have traditionally claimed to represent the working man, so their social ignorance is that little bit more insulting.After five years of brutal austerity and betrayal at the hands of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition—in which the NHS has been totally gutted, university fees have been raised to an unsustainable level and thousands of working families have been forced to resort to food banks to survive—Labour, in theory, should be a shoo-in. But underlying Miliband's lack of coherent policy is a total absence of any recognisable human traits. If he does win in next year's general election, it'll be as the lesser of four evils; the party's hollowest victory in generations.Ed Miliband is that most creepy of beings: a career politician. It sounds like an unfair thing to protest, but—as Wikipedia helpfully informs me—politics means "of, for, or relating to citizens." Miliband—like David Cameron—went straight from university into this world, his entire life as detached from that of a regular citizen as it's possible to get. He doesn't know what being a normal human feels like, and it's this that makes him such an unappealing prospect.I firmly believe that doing low paid service work for part of your life makes you a better person. I got my first weekend job when I was 14, selling fruit and veg on a market stall in my hometown. It's a cliché, but it really did teach me more about the world than anything else I've done to date. While the vast majority of my regular customers were brilliant, it doesn't take long in any retail job to realize that no matter your personality or individual merits, there are people who will always treat you like shit because of their perceived superiority—because they've never had to do this work themselves. I'm not saying Ed Miliband would treat fast food workers like pieces of human detritus, but he has the same level of ignorance to that kind of life as those who do—and that's not a man you want leading the workers.Here's the thing about jobs: jobs are shit. Not all of them and not all of the time, but most jobs are inherently, and objectively, completely fucking terrible. If the people running this country were forced to understand this—the fact that most people's lives are arduous enough without disastrous policies making everything even worse—perhaps they'd have a population happy to vote them into power.Follow Jack Urwin on Twitter"IF MILIBAND DOES WIN AT NEXT YEAR'S GENERAL ELECTION, IT'LL BE LABOUR'S HOLLOWEST VICTORY IN GENERATIONS"