Ukip's Mark Reckless wins Rochester and Strood by-election

Telegraph ^ | 7:39AM GMT 21 Nov 2014

[Perdogg]

UK Independence Party candidate Mark Reckless, who defected from the Tories, has beaten his former party to win the Rochester and Strood by-election by a majority of 2,920.

[Russ]

What, no recount?

[Excellence]

Yahoo!

[VanDeKoik]

Was this the one that would trigger some Con MPs to defect to UKIP?

[Blennos]

This is great news. The UK version of the Tea Party is making significant strides. We may see Farage as PM someday.

[Dr. Sivana]

"As Labour represents those comfortable at the top of the public sector, it is not Ed Miliband but Ukip that represents the concerns of most working men and women," he declared from the stage after a six-hour count.

He is showing the way. The Republican Party can only get a bigger tent by jettisoning the Romney wing that scares away so many.

[PapaBear3625]

UKIP now has two seats in the House of Commons.

[ExCTCitizen]

If he defected from Conservative to the UKIP, I hope he won’t be a UINO (UKIP in name only)!

[Bogey78O]

It’s a real risk when you’re the rising star to get the castoffs you beat tagging along.

I realized as a teen back when I worked retail. A new manager at the store I worked was a manager at the old store that was run out of town by my store. Success can be the seeds of destruction if you don’t plan carefully.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

This is the start of a big wave—that will sweep over the UK. Change is coming—painful change but like a good bowl movement—needed to purge the Liberal Muliculturalism that took England down the wrong road.