Reckless Self-Destructs. Seen It Yet?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I think he's just cost UKIP its second seat. What do you think?

[sandyRoe]

I do hope so. It's about time the UKIP bandwagon shuddered to a halt and the real politics resumed centre stage.

[jomifl]

do you have a link?

[Bazile]

no ,no , sandyRoe - we want them to pinch votes fronm the tories at the next election

[Peter Pedant]

I heard Farage doing standard politician damage control

and thought - how like the rest of them

[Jomlett]

Ukip under siege over Mark Reckless comments on repatriation of EU migrants http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-under-siege-over-mark-reckless-comments-on-migrants-9870660.html

[vetuste_ennemi]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2840189/Ukip-candidate-jeered-hinting-EU-arrivals-repatriated.html
Older than I thought. I only just heard it on tonight's 6.00 News.
Sorry about the DM link, it was the first one I hit on Google.
I'm a knuckle-dragging bigot who nreads The Spectator tather than the Mail.

[sp1814]

vetuste_ennemi

Don't know about costing them votes (might even attract a few!)

I saw this on the BBC News earlier tonight and the one thing that struck me is that far from being a 'breath of fresh air' as UKIP are so commonly described by their supporters, it all reeks of 'more of the same'. Politicians saying one thing, then doubling back, trying to say they mean the exact opposite when questioned.

Farage' excuse that Reckless had been tired after 'being on the hustings for two long gruelling months' was particularly odd, because this is what politicians do.

It's like trying to excuse a tailor who sews a pocket upside down on a jacket because he'd been busy making so many suits over the past two months.

A bit weak.

[Svejk]

Lol, will they never learn. The Marxists at the BBC trying to turn this into the political scandal of the year. We'll just have to wait and see tomorrow whether the electorate in Rochester are 'buying it'.

[ToraToraTora]

" do hope so. It's about time the UKIP bandwagon shuddered to a halt and the real politics resumed centre stage. " - quite right Sandy, can't have people off message can we? Sooner they return to "correct thinking" the better eh?

[Svejk]

The 'right' to stay here is a legitimate topic that needs addressing before we leave the EU.

[mikey4444]

UKIP putting their foot in it...again ! No no no...I can't possibly believe it !

[glenbar]

Think they are going a bit too far now. Lost interest in them.

[agchristie]

Whatever amount of votes his comments may have lost him wont matter too much here. If the Tories' defeat is minimised to less than 10% that will be an achievement in itself.

[jourdain2]

I don't think that he will have lost a lot of votes. Most people will have made their minds up by now.

[ichkeria]

I can't see this derailing UKIP in the short term. They're still getting the protest vote as "they aren't like the other parties" and the xenophobe vote is unlikely to be turned off by those comments, on the contrary.
Longer term though it shows the problem they have got: their "message" is unlikely to appeal to more than about 25% of the electorate at best, or to younger voters. The other parties would be best advised to batten down the hatches and wait for the fad to pass, as it will

[Svejk]

25%? They'll be delighted to hear that.

[sp1814]

Funny how UKIP acolytes are attempting to play this as a BBC story - when literally every major news aggregator has picked up on it.

Some people might unfairly accuse the Kippers of deflection.

... 'fairly'.

Who can say?

[ChillDoubt]

Funny how UKIP acolytes are attempting to play this as a BBC story - when literally every major news aggregator has picked up on it.
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For some inexplicable reason it was an almost cataclysmic event at lefty HQ(The Beeb) yet barely got a mention elsewhere.
Nick Robinson attempting to tackle Farage was like watching someone being savaged by a tortoise.
His reply was taken completely out of context and Farage made the aprty's stance clear.
Due to a lack of a credible link to the story I'll even provide the thread-maker with an actual link to what he said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30111694

[andy-hughes]

It is a poor example of trying to deal with a horse / stable door interface from Mr Farage - next he'll be saying that Mr Wreckless was 'tired and emotional'!

The point is, party policy or not, Mark Reckless clearly thinks that repatriation - aside from those 'looked at sympathetically' - is a policy idea that he thinks is a vote winner - and in the case of his own by-election, he will probably be proved right.

However, such right-wing stupidity does UKIP's cause no favours, and plays straight into the hands of the other parties who can spend the next couple of days wringing their hands metaphorically and literally about what a dreadful person Mr Wreckless is.

That will be deliciously ironic from Mr Cameron, given that Mr Wreckless was one of his MP's only a few weeks ago, and doubtless thought this way about immigrants even then.

Hard for Call-Me-Dave to get the juice out of this one - but it won't stop him trying.