Final poll puts Cameron and Miliband neck and neck in race for Downing Street General Election 2015: Ukip candidate has excrement posted through office door as vandals try to wreck campaign

Final poll puts Cameron and Miliband neck and neck in race for Downing Street

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Adam Withnall

Wednesday 06 May 2015

There have been ugly scenes on the final day of general election campaigning in Ramsgate, Kent, where Nigel Farage is trying to muster some last-ditch support for his bid to become an MP.
Video showed the Ukip leader arguing with a member of the public at a building site, after which one of Mr Farage's entourage told the voter: "This isn't about you."
In a separate incident, a man claimed he was punched in the face by a Ukip supporter after he called Mr Farage a "nasty fascist".
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David Cameron finishes his mammoth 36-hour tour of the UK with a rally in the Conservative-held marginal constituency of Carlisle – a symbolic location on the border of England and Scotland where he will make a final warning of Scottish nationalists holding English voters to ransom.
It is likely to be a futile last-minute visit to the seat however as polls have shown a strong swing over to Labour.
Ed Miliband has been focussing on a cluster of marginal seats in Yorkshire today and will end his campaign with a rally in the county.
But before anyone gets excited that Labour might have been stupid enough to arrange their rally in Sheffield – bringing back memories of Neil Kinnock’s disastrous and hubristic election rally when he repeatedly shouted “We're Alright" – the Labour leader will hold the rally in Leeds, which contains a mixture of Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem-held constituencies.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg ends his marathon 1,000 mile journey from Land’s End to John o’Groats tonight, passing through key Lib Dem Scottish seats the party is desperately trying to hang on to.

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They include Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, who is facing the humiliation of being booted out of his Inverness seat by the SNP. He is the Lib Dem seen as closest to the Tories having spent five years as George Osborne’s right-hand man at the Treasury overseeing the government’s austerity cuts.
Defeat for Mr Alexander makes a second Coalition between the two parties less likely as they would have lost one of the four “Quad” members of the Cabinet that bound the two parties together – the other three being Mr Clegg, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne.
They will then wait nervously for the results, while trying to get as much rest as possible, before the long night that will determine the rest of their political careers.

General Election 2015: Ukip candidate has excrement posted through office door as vandals try to wreck campaign

The incident follows six ‘attacks on democracy’ in its Wearside Branch in recent weeks by people who 'describe themselves as left wing'

Adam Leyland

Wednesday 06 May 2015

A Ukip candidate for the party’s Wearside Branch has hit out at vandals after a bag filled with excrement was posted through a campaign office door.

The incident – where a carrier bag containing faeces and urine was posted while the group were out campaigning on 4 May - comes after what the party describes as six ‘attacks on democracy’ were reported to police within a week last month in East Rainton, Newbottle, Hetton and Houghton.

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 On 14 April a Ukip election poster was stolen from a residential garden in the Sunderland constituency. The following Saturday a house was attacked by vandals who also tore down a large Ukip campaign board. On 19 April, a Ukip board on private land was sawn down – with a replacement lasting only a day before being chopped down again.

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Ukip Wearside Branch Chairman and former parish councillor Richard Elvin, who is standing for the safe Labour seat of Houghton and Sunderland South, had referred to the vandals as people who ‘describe themselves as left-wing’, in an interview with the Sunderland Echo.
“Words fail me as to what goes through people’s minds’ sometimes”, he told the newspaper after the most recent incident.
Ukip candidate Richard Elvin pictured with leader Nigel Farage (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images News)
“I’m astounded that anyone can show so much hatred towards a political party that stands up for hard-working men and women and simply wants to regain control of our country from Brussels.”

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Northumbria Police confirmed the incident on 4 May. A spokeswoman said: “Between 6pm and 8pm on Monday, May 4, a carrier bag containing excrement was posted through a door on Newbottle Street in Houghton.”
Elvin is campaigning against Labour’s Bridget Phillipson, an aide to Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, who comfortably won the Houghton and Sunderland South seat with 50 per cent of the vote in 2010.
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