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Ed stone: Miliband courts career death with ‘commandments’

WITH three days to go things are veering from the absurd into the totally ridiculous.What on earth were Ed Miliband and Labour thinking, going all biblical with their monolithic “10 commandments” style slab of rock?

What’s next? Setting fire to the shrubbery?

You kept hoping it was a gag but sadly it proved to be all too real.

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