Ed Miliband announced today that he has commissioned a giant 8′ 6” limestone slab bearing Labour’s “six election pledges” that is to be installed in the Downing Street Rose Garden if he becomes prime minister. He has promised, or perhaps one should say “pledged,” that the stone will be visible from offices inside Number 10 to remind him to keep his electoral promises.
It seems the height of hubris to have commissioned the massive monument before he has won the election.
When the pledges were first announced in March there were only five, as shown on his pledge card:
To these, Mr Miliband has now added as something of an afterthought: “Homes to buy and action on rent.”
Be that as it may – and arithmetic has never been Mr Miliband’s favourite subject – there are a large number of legal problems which suggest that installation of the Miliband Menhir will never happen. Continue reading “If Miliband erects his pillar in the Rose Garden he may be sent to prison”