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Just when you think their moral waterline had been holed so frequently that they could not submerge any further they go and add another few tonnes of cargo to ensure the process of plumbing the depths continues unabated.

Cue the Tories’ latest election wheeze, which has to be one of the most cynical, deplorable and spectacularly ill-judged in recent times.

Thus we were presented in eye-watering technicolour with a picture of David Cameron choking a baby sheep to death for its milk bottle on the front page of every rag in the country.

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