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Ed ‘lawnmower man’ Miliband pictured cutting a constituent’s lawn in bizarre election ploy

The former Labour leader was getting the vote out in Arksey - in his constituency of Doncaster North

    

Ed Miliband pictured getting his fingers green as he helped out mowing a constituent's lawn

WE thought you were opposed to cuts, Ed Miliband?

Now the former Labour leader is back on the campaign trail again in Doncaster, it seems he’ll do anything for a vote.

Yesterday afternoon the politician was pictured getting his fingers green as he helped out mowing a constituent’s lawn.
He tweeted: “Following instructions for grassroots strategy in Doncaster North.”
Mr Miliband was canvassing with Doncaster Council Labour councillors standing for re-election in local elections this coming Thursday.

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And he will stand for re-election as an MP in his Doncaster North constituency in the snap General Election on June 8.

  

  

   

Mr Miliband was mocked as a journalist pointed out that he’d saved a space for the legendary Ed Stone.
And he tweeted back: “Yep. There’s always some smart-arse that has to spoil it.”
Today marks two years since he unveiled an eight-foot high stone with Labour’s 2015 election promises in.
The eight-foot stone plinth was known as Ed Miliband’s electoral tombstone when it was unveiled to widespread mockery.
The tablet, inscribed with meaningless pledges by the Labour leader, was supposed to be placed in the Downing Street rose garden if he had won the election.
The party spent £8,000 on the slab of marble.

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Labour’s disastrous ‘EdStone’ has caused the party one final humiliation

But after a calamitous defeat to David Cameron’s Tories it was hidden in a warehouse and allegedly smashed to bits, after journalists tried to track it down.
The stone handed the party another humiliation at the end of last year when the Electoral Commission fined them £20,000 for failing to declare it properly.

And yesterday he poked fun at Theresa May awkwardly eating chips while she was out campaigning.
The PM slowly munched the treats while on the campaign trail in Mevagissey, Cornwall.
She was careful not to repeat Ed Miliband’s infamous bacon buttie disaster from the 2015 General Election.
He yesterday tweeted the PM: “We should talk.”

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The PM was snapped munching on the campaign trail in Mevagissey, Cornwall

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But her enthusiasm for the seaside treat seemed to wane

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The PM was careful not to repeat Ed Miliband’s infamous bacon buttie disaster from the 2015 General Election

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But he still tweeted her after the incident