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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: UKIP wins second Parliamentary seat (Rochester & Strood)
UKIP: 16,867 (42%)
Conservative: 13,947 (35%)
Labour: 6,713 (17%)
Green: 1,692 (4%)
Liberal Democrats: 349
Monster Raving Loony: 151
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BREAKING: UKIP wins second Parliamentary seat (Rochester & Strood) (Original Post)
brooklynite
Nov 2014
OP
In fairness, they did beat (so to speak) the former Dominatrix who was running
brooklynite
Nov 2014
#6
shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Damn shame
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2. Disgusting!
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)3. Lib/Dems got absolutely crushed....
Nick Clegg has got to go if they want to stand any chance at the next GE.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)4. Labour had better start caring about the poor and working class
because UKIPs strength comes from working class people who feel forgotten, and the demagogues are blaming immigrants.
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)7. I think this sums up how far up their own arses Labour have become.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30139832
Labour's Emily Thornberry has resigned from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by-election campaign.
The shadow attorney general apologised for the tweet, which showed a terraced house with three England flags, and a white van parked outside. Alongside the picture, she wrote: "Image from Rochester".
She said she had not meant to cause offence, but Labour backbencher John Mann accused her of "snobbery".
And the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said on Friday that the tweet "plays to a very, very dangerous theme" for Labour, namely the concern "that they are somehow dismissive, patronising, contemptuous of their own core voters".
The shadow attorney general apologised for the tweet, which showed a terraced house with three England flags, and a white van parked outside. Alongside the picture, she wrote: "Image from Rochester".
She said she had not meant to cause offence, but Labour backbencher John Mann accused her of "snobbery".
And the BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said on Friday that the tweet "plays to a very, very dangerous theme" for Labour, namely the concern "that they are somehow dismissive, patronising, contemptuous of their own core voters".
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)5. Lib Dems barely registered. In 2010, they took 16.3% in the district.
brooklynite
(94,738 posts)6. In fairness, they did beat (so to speak) the former Dominatrix who was running