{"id":7823,"date":"2014-11-21T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2014-11-25T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:41:05","slug":"comfortable-ukip-win-at-rochester-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/politics-2\/2014\/11\/comfortable-ukip-win-at-rochester-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfortable UKIP Win At Rochester By- Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n<p>Last night <strong>Mark Reckless<\/strong> became the United Kingdom Independence Party&#8217;s second member of Parliament defeating the <strong>Conservatives<\/strong> in their once safe seat of <strong>Rochester and Strood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Nigel Farage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>David Cameron<\/strong> poured everything he had got. Yet he was no match for UKIP&#8217;s leader <strong>Nigel Farage<\/strong> whose reputation of telling the voters the truth is paying huge dividends where it matters the most-at the the polls.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrats lost their deposit after gaining only 349 votes, The winner, UKIP&#8217;s <strong>Reckless<\/strong> got 16,867 giving him a majority of 2,920.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Clegg should resign<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Surely the Lib Dem \u00a0leader Deputy Prime Minister <strong>Nick Clegg<\/strong> has lost all right to his ministerial perks? Years of hard work building up the Lib Dems have been thrown away to provide the current leadership with a few gongs. In some other countries an outraged party activist would have finished him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Tories\u00a0<\/strong>have missed the point entirely over immigration. It&#8217;s not about benefits. It&#8217;s about English people losing their jobs to immigrants and having to beg. It&#8217;s about waiting in queues while the new foreign masters swagger in front.<\/p>\n<p>David Cameron&#8217;s party is losing its working class vote to<strong> UKIP.\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s losing the middle and upper classes too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Labour\u00a0<\/strong>would have been so much better off under Ed&#8217;s older brother <strong>David Milliband.\u00a0<\/strong>It is ironic that the trade union movement should see its choice of leader of the <strong>Labour Party<\/strong>, <strong>Ed Milliband<\/strong> become dubbed\u00a0as part of&#8221;the wealthy Islington set&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Given the state of its opponents <strong>UKIP<\/strong> is going to rise and rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,103],"tags":[1197,298,115,1241,1242,633],"class_list":["post-7823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics-2","tag-conservatives","tag-david-cameron","tag-labour","tag-mark-reckless-mp","tag-nick-clegg","tag-nigel-farage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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