Its a total myth that only tory voters are turning to UKIP, or that a vote for UKIP is a vote for Labour.
Last night Labour scraped home in its own heartland, thanks to massive activist involvement over the past week including almost 200 running around like lunatics yesterday banging on about how the tories weren't active in the area.
The victorious labour candidate suffered howls of derision as she began her prepared speech, obviously written by spin doctors expecting a resounding victory, and went on to deride the tories even though her closest rival was UKIP.
Milliband is claiming a victory, banging out a speech about tories being crap and labour being good whilst totally ignoring that UKIP pushed them within 600 votes, refusing to answer any media questions about people who want out of europe and controlled immigration and pretty much hiding behind the bookshelves in the library.
Speaking of the prepared speech from Heywood...check out the comment from the returning officer at 2.16
Currently the Labour party is dead in the water..they will lose the scottish contingent and every single northern seat will be up for grabs by UKIP next year....expect a U turn on immigration and Europe.