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Election campaign launched with a bang
Friday, 19th March 2010
More than 500 cheering delegates attended the UKIP Spring Conference in Milton Keynes today to hear Nigel Farage and Lord Pearson deliver rousing speeches as the Party launched its election campaign.
A packed conference hall also watched as MEP David Campbell Bannerman launched UKIP's most detailed manifesto ever, and Campaign Director James Pryor outlined the Party's tactics for the assault on the general election.
Speaking at the end of the conference, Lord Pearson explained clearly how voters are running out of time to save the country from disaster.
"After five more years it may be very difficult to escape," he said. "We will no longer be enmeshed on every side in the tentacles of the corrupt octopus, as we are today; we will be in its belly.
"So whatever the doubts about a hung Parliament, a Conservative victory would be an absolutely certain disaster, just as bad as Labour. It would be the final extinction of what millions of our forebears have died for over hundreds of years.
"We must not let it happen."
Conference delegates - many of them parliamentary candidates in the coming election - earlier heard from Nigel Farage, UKIP's candidate in Buckingham, where he intends to unseat Commons Speaker John Bercow.
"I think that this constituency above all others offers people the opportunity to send a message to the entire political class," said Farage in a typically crowd-pleasing and charismatic speech.
"I think this speaker is a symbol of that political class and all that is wrong in politics today."
Some of the day's loudest cheers came as Campbell Bannerman outlined policies that will help the UK out of its economic turmoil, reclaim British culture, and confirm Britain's status as a global power.
"UKIP is no longer a single issue party," explained Campbell Bannerman as he explained the common sense decision making behind UKIP's new manifesto.
Campaign Director James Pryor says the campaign launch was a roaring success
"We've been gearing up for this event for a long time," he said. "We now need to take the success of today and translate it into crosses on the ballot papers."
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