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| UKIP parking its tanks on Labour's lawn - Farage | UKIP parking its tanks on Labour's lawn - Farage |
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| Nigel Farage has issued a pre-election warning to Ed Miliband that UKIP is targeting voters in Labour's traditional heartlands. | Nigel Farage has issued a pre-election warning to Ed Miliband that UKIP is targeting voters in Labour's traditional heartlands. |
| Speaking at UKIP's annual conference in Doncaster, where the Labour leader is an MP, he said: "It's no coincidence that we're holding our conference here. | |
| "We are now parking our tanks on the Labour Party's lawn." | "We are now parking our tanks on the Labour Party's lawn." |
| He said the Eurosceptic party was "tearing vast chunks" out of the Labour vote in the north of England and Wales. | |
| Labour responded by calling Mr Farage's party "more Tory than the Tories." | Labour responded by calling Mr Farage's party "more Tory than the Tories." |
| UKIP has been portrayed as more of a threat to the Conservatives than to Labour by the media, Mr Farage said. | UKIP has been portrayed as more of a threat to the Conservatives than to Labour by the media, Mr Farage said. |
| "They [the mainstream media] would have you believe that we pose a mortal threat to David Cameron's Conservative Party," Mr Farage said. | |
| "They're wrong. The reason the Conservative Party will not get a majority at the next general election has nothing to do with us - they've done the job themselves." | |
| 'Sick and tired' | 'Sick and tired' |
| Mr Farage said his party "posed a threat to the entire British political class", not just the Conservatives as the "establishment believed". | Mr Farage said his party "posed a threat to the entire British political class", not just the Conservatives as the "establishment believed". |
| Referring to two forthcoming by-elections, where UKIP candidates will challenge previously Conservative and Labour seats, Mr Farage said: "We've now got the Labour Party as worried in Heywood and Middleton as we've got the Conservatives in Clacton. | |
| "This party is not about left and right - it's about right and wrong." | "This party is not about left and right - it's about right and wrong." |
| Mr Farage also told delegates he was "sick and tired" of hearing that a vote for UKIP would let Labour in. | Mr Farage also told delegates he was "sick and tired" of hearing that a vote for UKIP would let Labour in. |
| "The message that needs to come out from this conference is that actually, in our target seats next year, in the by-elections and in the general election, if you vote UKIP you will get UKIP," he said. | "The message that needs to come out from this conference is that actually, in our target seats next year, in the by-elections and in the general election, if you vote UKIP you will get UKIP," he said. |
| Labour's shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Dugher, said: "The ex-banker, ex-Tory boy Farage is a politician trying to fool the public with weasel words - but working people will see through his act." |