48 hours: Desperate Tories beg Ukip voters (who they previously slurred) to vote Tory
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...cide-note.html
Iain Duncan Smith: Voting for Ukip and Nigel Farage is like writing Britain's 'suicide note'
The Work and Pensions Secretary says voting Ukip in the general election is “unfathomable” and people "will not be forgiven" for ruining the chances of holding an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
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Voting for UKIP is like writing a “suicide note” which will “not be forgiven” if it denies Britain the chance to vote on whether to remain a member of the EU, Iain Duncan Smith warns today. In a heartfelt intervention just 48 hours before polling day, the former Conservative leader urges those considering voting UKIP not to jeopardise a decades-long campaign he has waged to change Britain’s relationship with Brussels.
The Work and Pensions Secretary describes a vote for Ukip as “unfathomable” as it risks allowing a weak minority Labour government – backed by the SNP – to seize control of Downing Street. Mr Duncan Smith’s comments, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, come as senior Conservative figures prepare to fan out across Britain today and tomorrow in a last ditch attempt to win around voters.
With the opinion polls largely deadlocked, David Cameron believes that personal heartfelt pleas to relatively small groups of voters could yet help secure a Conservative majority in Thursday’s general election. Opinion polls have in recent weeks shown that Ukip’s vote is being squeezed in key marginal constituencies across the country - but the vote has not yet collapsed as many Conservatives had forecast. Senior Tory strategists are still concerned that people will vote Ukip in sufficient numbers to split the Conservative vote in some areas and allow Labour to prosper.
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Nigel Farage today launches a national advertising campaign in a bid to stop potential Ukip voters returning to the Tory fold.
Mr Duncan Smith is one of the Conservative Party’s leading Eurosceptics who came to prominence leading the rebellions against John Major over the Maastricht Treaty. He has so far played a relatively low-key role in the election campaign but today urges potential Ukip voters to “stop and think” about the consequences of supporting Mr Farage. “I would simply appeal to them to say, honestly this is a risk that is no longer a protest, but it’s like a suicide note,” he says “The last thing I always say to Ukip people on the doorstep - and it’s very simple – is that for 24 years I have campaigned for a referendum on the European Union.
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“And the British people have wanted one. And they should stop and think because if they do not vote for the Conservatives then basically they will have taken away that referendum from the British people for which they will not be forgiven. And I certainly won’t forgive them.”
Mr Cameron will today begin a 36-hour tour of the country ahead of Thursday’s vote designed to galvanise Tory support in dozens of constituencies that could give his party victory in the election. In a rally on Tuesday, he will urge people considering voting Ukip or for the Liberal Democrats to vote Tory to avoid the “chaos” of a Labour government reliant on “back-room deals, bribes and ransom notes”.
The Prime Minister will say: “So I say to voters in Lib Dem seats, the only way to avoid Miliband-SNP and economic chaos is to vote Conservative this time. And I say to UKIP voters, the only way to avoid Milliband and the SNP is to vote Conservative this time. “Nigel Farage is the back door to a Labour Government. And I say to previous Conservative voters, who may be thinking twice about turning out, turn out because if the nation is to avoid Miliband-SNP and economic chaos you must vote.”
Mr Cameron’s tour will take in a dozen stops in London, the Midlands, the South West, North West, Wales and Scotland. George Osborne, the Chancellor, will also spend 24 hours travelling to target constituencies ahead of Thursday’s vote.
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Mr Duncan Smith’s appeal to Ukip supporters is the most forthright by a senior Conservative since the beginning of the general election campaign. He says that he “understands people’s frustrations” and that many voters were “hurt during the recession and they lost their faith in mainstream politics”. “Europe, immigration and the issue about low pay - that was the problem,” he says. “But that’s changing. I mean, look around. If we stay in power for another 10 years, all I would say is with the welfare reforms to complete, with the economic changes that we’re making, I actually am more optimistic about the future for Britain than I have been in 24 years in politics.” “My appeal is stop before you put your cross on the paper. Ask yourself this very simple question: If I care about my country so much, why would I risk the chance of a Labour Party being in government with the Scottish nationalists?”
The former Tory leader adds: “I just think if people just lifted their heads up and we could look at the horizon, it looks fantastic. But we’ve got to get there. If you don’t do it, then the horizon disappears and we end up in this never-never land of France. “Monsieur Hollande as French president has taken France in the direction Mr Miliband would. So you don’t need to think what will it be like – just have a good look at France. Unemployment at over double ours. Economic inactivity – dramatic. You’ve got youth unemployment much higher than ours.”
In his interview, Mr Duncan Smith also warns that the Coalition’s flagship reforms to the benefits system would “hit the buffers” if Labour and the SNP get into power this week. “[The reforms] will all go and what will be replaced is back to where we were. And that’s the real threat of Labour on welfare - they are still trapped in a time warp.”
Too late losers.
Years of insults: fruitcakes, loonies, closet racists, gadflys, sex with vaccum cleaners - and now they want our voters? Take a walk. In any case, they're misunderstanding that a huge - bigger - chunk of Ukip support comes from ex-Labour voters and non-voters. So it's not clear cut.
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"Iain Duncan Smith: Voting for Ukip and Nigel Farage is like writing Britain's 'suicide note"
No it's like writing the Tory party's death warrant.
The panic is palpable.
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"“The last thing I always say to Ukip people on the doorstep - and it’s very simple – is that for 24 years I have campaigned for a referendum on the European Union."
Yeah? And where have your herculean efforts got us exactly Ian? In that same period of time, the EU has increased its powers immeasurably. If I fought for something for 24 years to no avail, I would start reworking my strategy.
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It's quite simple IDS. Get stuffed. I'm voting UKIP along with millions of others. You arrogant twit, you say UKIP voters "won't be forgiven". By whom, exactly? The idiots in the Tory party who sold out their core voters, and the country? Cretin.
My family all mostly have been lifelong Tory voters. No more.
Just watch what happens when the Tories realise they've now failed to win their 5th General Election in a row. Civil war. :D
Thoughts?
