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.

Mind you, nothing should surprise us anymore and Labour is far from the only runner in the lunacy stakes.

We’ve seen David Cameron continuing to pretend he’s travelling around the country on his battle bus when everyone knows he gets flown or ferried first-class by train and then hops on the bus for the last few miles.

It’s a bit like Jimmy Savile running a marathon.

And Cameron yet again showed his yellow streak yesterday by ducking a Westminster hustings addressed by Miliband and Clegg.

Instead he scurried off to a Tory rally in south-west England to tell voters that they face an “inescapable choice” between him and Mr Miliband.

Was that really supposed to win them over?Someone else who seems unclear on the concept of electioneering is Nigel Farage, who this week took a break from decrying the BBC as closet Bolsheviks to tell a radio phone-in caller that he was out of touch and read the Daily Mail too much. That pretty much sums up Ukip’s entire electorate — at least those who can read.

And then we have the party political broadcasts.Did I really see the Lib Dems’ risible green cross code-inspired offering where we are seriously asked to believe that a young woman is intently listening to Nick Clegg on her headphones while walking the streets, or was I hallucinating?

So engrossed is she in the turgid rhetoric she almost gets run over — twice — presumably the second time because she’d lost the will to live. I know how she feels.Then as if all that wasn’t bad enough we’ve had the spectre of a second election raised.

If that doesn’t fall under the category of cruel and unusual punishment I don’t know what does.