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Rochester: Farage looks to more UKIP gains after success
BBC News ^ | 11/21/2014 | BBC

Posted on 11/21/2014 5:31:44 AM PST by Nextrush

UKIP's Mark Reckless says the Conservatives have been a "cosy cartel for too long"

Nigel Farage has said UKIP can become a major force in Parliament at next year's election after its victory in the Rochester and Strood by-election......

Mr. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than Conservative Kelly Tolhurst's 13,947, with Labour's Naushabah Khan on 6,713-ahead of the Green Party....

In his acceptance speech on Friday morning, Mr. Reckless said Rochester and Strood had been UKIP's 271st most winnable seat and "if UKIP can win here, we can win across the country."......

UKIP leader Nigel Farage denied the result was simply a protest vote against the government, or that voters would return to the larger parties in the general election.

He said the message of Rochester and Strood was: "If you vote UKIP, you get UKIP" and "people out there who vote UKIP intend to stay UKIP."

He said he believed the number of seats that UKIP could win in May had "probably doubled".....

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: gop; illegals; rochester; teaparty; ukip
UKIP continues it rise with Farage seeing hope of winning dozens of seats and holding the balance of power after the May 7th General Election.

I suspect the two big parties may even end up forming a unity government to keep UKIP out of government since it wants to get the UK out of the EU and out from under EU immigration rules that have flooded the country with cheap labor.

1 posted on 11/21/2014 5:31:44 AM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush
I am a big fan of Nigel Farage.

I've watched dozens of his speeches on YouTube over the last three years.

UKIP is roughly the equivalent of the USA's Tea Party. Very similar outlooks.

I encourage all FReepers to watch some of his speeches on YouTube. The ominous power grab of the European Parliament will chill you--it's Pure Evil. We're closer to the End Times than people realize.

At it's core, it's completely anti-democratic. There's little the common man can do to influence candidate selection at the highest levels.

2 posted on 11/21/2014 5:54:35 AM PST by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: Nextrush

The UKIP is giving us a chance to make the GOP into what us TP want it to be.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 6:08:14 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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4 posted on 11/21/2014 6:42:33 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: ExCTCitizen

Farage for PM! he can’t screw up anything worse than the others! Imagine LePen, of France, Farage of UK and Ted Cruz of the USA,—what a world they would make.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 11:34:32 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

And Steven Harper in Canada, too.


6 posted on 11/22/2014 7:16:29 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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