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Mark Reckless Was Called a Liar, Traitor, Turncoat and Even the Prime Minister Poked Fun at His Backside, but After a Night of Drama 7am SPECIAL EDITION FREE WITH TODAY’S MEDWAY MESSENGER MEDWAYELECTION kmfmMESSENGER 107.9 100.4 www.kentonline.co.uk/medway Friday, November 21, 2014 Mark Reckless was called a liar, traitor, turncoat and even the Prime Minister poked fun at his backside, but after a night of drama... UKIP HAS THE LAST LAUGH THE WINNERS ■ THE LOSERS ■ FULL RESULT ■ THE CAMPAIGN 2 Friday, November 21, 2014 Election Special TIMELINE: SEPTEMBER 26 SEPTEMBER 27 ►► Channel 4’s Krisnan Guru-Murthy tweets Mark Reckless after Reckless announces defection at Ukip vote on airstrikes: Your language seems quite Ukippy? conference in Doncaster, sparking by-election ELECTION 2014 RESULT SPECIAL UKIP GAIN Out at the count PAGE 4 MARK RECKLESS MAJORITY 2,920 40,113 VOTES CAST Turnout 50.67% Council win for Ukip The number of ballot papers rejected was 48 PAGE 5 MARK RECKLESS (UKIP) 16,867 42.10% Election in numbers KELLY TOLHURST (CONSERVATIVE) 13,947 34.81% PAGE 6 Medway on the map NAUSHABAH KHAN (LABOUR) 6,713 16.76% PAGES 6 & 7 CLIVE GREGORY (GREEN) 1,692 4.22% On the campaign trail GEOFF JUBY (LIBERAL DEMOCRAT) 349 0.87% PAGES 8 & 9 HAIRY KNORM DAVIDSON (MRLP) 151 0.38% Profile: Kelly Tolhurst PAGE 10 STEPHEN GOLDSBOROUGH (INDEPENDENT) 69 0.17% Profile: Mark Reckless NICK LONG (PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT) 69 0.17% PAGE 11 JAYDA KALEIGH FRANSEN (VOTE BRITISH!) 56 0.14% How local businesses fared MIKE BARKER (INDEPENDENT) 54 0.13% PAGE 12 Paul Francis’ campaign diary CHARLOTTE ROSE (INDEPENDENT) 43 0.11% PAGE 13 DAVE OSBORNE (PATRIOTIC SOCIAL PARTY) 33 0.08% Hairy Knorm from the Official Monster Raving Loony Protest marches CHRISTOPHER CHALLIS (INDEPENDENT) 22 0.05% Party and Charlotte Rose from the Sexual Freedom PAGE 14 Party congratulate the winner of the Rochester and Strood by-election, Mark Reckless FM3521453 A Codger’s view PAGE 15 ...and finally PAGE 16 Labour’s Naushabah Khan puts a brave face on defeat, while Ukip leader Nigel Farage has plenty to laugh about with the Official Monster Raving Loony Party Your Pictures: Andy Payton election FM3521418/FM3521401 team Medway Messenger editor: BOB BOUNDS News editor: SARAH CLARKE KM Group political editor: PAUL FRANCIS Reporters: LIZZIE MASSEY GRAHAM STODHART Photographer: ANDY PAYTON Graphics: ASHLEY AUSTEN Designers/subs LISA DANIELS, STEVE CONSTABLE Defeated Kelly Tolhurst and Andrew Mackness, chairman of Rochester and Strood Conservatives, are downcast, while winner Mark Reckless is centre of attention for the media FM3521401/FM3521462 Friday, November 21, 2014 Election Special 3 SEPTEMBER 28 ►► OCTOBER 8 ►► Nigel Farage joins Mark Reckless on a walkabout Tories announce they will hold an open around Rochester, including The Crown pub postal primary to select their candidate The candidates line up for the announcement of the results, with Ukip leader Nigel Farage waiting to celebrate his party’s victory Pictures: Andy Payton FM3521439/FM3521438 Mark reckleSS’ victory Speech “Politics is not a popular Now we can take seats career, it takes real grit to put yourself forward for election. “Yet politics is the alternative to anarchy or despotism. We are blessed here to take it for granted. “Thank you to first time anywhere, says Reckless voters in their 70s and to the Labour voters who switched to Ukip in such numbers. kip scored a “It is the tradition of remarkable second taking the power away from by-election victory the elites and spreading it and says it is amongst the people. heading for more “It is the tradition of Usuccess after Mark Reckless levellers, charters and emerged victorious in the suffragettes. It is the tradition battle for Rochester and Strood. which gave us appointment On a long night of drama on merit, Gladstonian that followed weeks of bitter finance, universal suffrage, campaigning, Mr Reckless religious freedom and racial was eventually declared the tolerance.” winner at 4.15am. He took “The working class has the seat for which he had found a new home with Ukip. been Conservative MP since It is not Ed Miliband but 2010 with a majority of more Ukip which represents the than 3,000. His majority as concerns of most working a Conservative at the last people. election was more than 10,000. “Thank you to the The margin of his victory Mark Reckless and his wife Catriona Brown arrive thousands from Ukip who this time was not as great at Medway Park for the count, with a huge media gave up their time to as polls throughout the presence awaiting them FM3521352/FM3521348 campaign for me, I wish I had campaign had suggested and the words to express how the Conservatives took some grateful I am, this is your consolation from closing the ‘Many come to Britain because of the victory. gap and will feel they can “If we can win here, we can regain the seat at the General opportunities we offer as we create win across the country. Election in May. “People feel patriotic to more jobs than the rest of the EU’ their adoptive country, people Signalled attracted by our strong Watched by Nigel Farage, economy, our open society his party leader, Mr Reckless The six-week campaign, yesterday. important though it is, perhaps disappointing night for Labour and better future. Many come said his win signalled that which saw the Prime Minister Mr Farage said: “This what Nicolas Sarkozy has said but its candidate Naushabah to Britain because of the Ukip could win in other areas. “throw the kitchen sink” at election was Ukip against the in the last 24 hours is even more Khan was bullish in the face of opportunities we offer as we “If we can win here, we can the constituency in a desperate government. If we can win our significant, the Franco-German coming third. She said Labour create more jobs than the win across the country,” he bid to halt Nigel Farage’s 271st target seat I don’t think axis that has been at the heart needed to get its message rest of the EU put together. said in his acceptance speech. bandwagon, all came down anybody now can intelligently of the European project for the across more clearly to those They are now here as part of “You are the boss and you to list of 13 names read out by predict anything for the general last 60 years is in the process of supporters who had moved our community and they will must not let me forget it.” In returning officer Hugo Fenwick election next year. This throws breaking.” over to Ukip this time. always be welcome. a pointed comment following followed by the votes they had the whole thing up in the air. A visibly upset Kelly Tolhurst, For Medway, the “If you believe in people the row about his remarks over each polled. They ranged from “But I think Britain is on the the Conservative candidate, political drama provided a power, if you believe that the immigration, he said: “I had 22 to Mr Reckless’s 16,867 – a way out of the European Union, said Ukip’s victory would unprecedented branding world is bigger than Europe more than a dash of support 42% share of the overall vote, it’s just a question of how long only mean that Labour could opportunity and the council and believe in an independent from people who have come with just over half the number really. form the next government and did not miss the chance to Britain then come with us.” here from other nations.” of voters going to the polls “Whatever’s happened here, lead to higher taxes. It was a showcase the area. 4 Friday, November 21, 2014 Election Special OCTOBER 9 ►► OCTOBER 11 ►► OCTOBER 12 ►► Douglas Carswell wins Clacton by-election, Victorious Carswell joins Farage and Reckless Labour plays down claims it by 12,404 votes, becoming first Ukip MP to campaign in Rochester High Street has already given up on the seat Vote Clooney? When Mark Reckless entered Medway Park for the count, the sports hall became a scrum. KMTV journalist Graham Stothard was in the crush and said: “Somebody fell over and people were shouting ‘stop, stop stop’. It was like George Clooney had turned up. There were points I was squashed up against the wall. Security Above and below, the result was finally announced just after 4am today stopped people coming in and people were running through the corridors. In the end they had to usher him through ‘Exciting and exhilarating’ another door.” The Rochester and Strood by-election made history from the off, when Mark Reckless defected from the Conservatives and sided with Ukip. He immediately announced he was resigning as an MP, triggering one of the most highly-publicised by-elections of recent years. But while his actions caused a storm of publicity, it was less than convenient for Medway Council, which had a third of Join the club the normal time to organise While other candidates turned 50 polling stations, the voting up to Medway Park in dribs and count. and drabs throughout the night Chief executive Neil Davies for the count, one of them said: “It is an exciting and pointblank refused to leave a exhilarating event but has nightclub. Christopher Challis, taken a huge amount of pictured, tweeted to say: “I’ll preparation. Picture: Andy Payton be at #CasinoRooms night “We would normally have FM3521379 club having fun! C u later.” He in excess of three months added: “The UKIP fruitcakes to plan an election. But the are out on Twitter tonight.” nature of this one, because of the resignation of Mark Where’s the sleigh? Reckless, meant we only had Going bananas a window of around 21 to 27 Hairy Knorm from the Official days.
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