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From the Torygraph..Earlier this month it emerged that a polling company had been making calls in Mr Reckless's constituency.
They asked people if they would be more likely to vote for Mr Reckless, a Eurosceptic MP and friend of Mr Carswell, if he were a member of Ukip.
Mr Reckless's announcement came after it emerged that a number of Tory MPs have been approached to defect to Ukip by a senior Ukip official working in the office of a member of the Lords.
Matthew Richardson, a barrister and Ukip's legal officer, has approached a series of Tory backbenchers on the terrace at the Palace of Westminster.
He is thought to have triggered panic in Tory ranks after boasting to targets of the number of Conservative MPs he had lined up to follow Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, in quitting.
They asked people if they would be more likely to vote for Mr Reckless, a Eurosceptic MP and friend of Mr Carswell, if he were a member of Ukip.
Mr Reckless's announcement came after it emerged that a number of Tory MPs have been approached to defect to Ukip by a senior Ukip official working in the office of a member of the Lords.
Matthew Richardson, a barrister and Ukip's legal officer, has approached a series of Tory backbenchers on the terrace at the Palace of Westminster.
He is thought to have triggered panic in Tory ranks after boasting to targets of the number of Conservative MPs he had lined up to follow Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, in quitting.
I see no reason for Tory panic.
Someone whom the rest of the country has barely heard of has switched allegience, grumbling about how their previous party treated them.
He would probably be a "back bencher for life", with the Tories. He stands a chance of a more senior position within a UKIP parliamentary opposition.
So he's just another self-serving MP with ambitions hitherto frustrated.
Unless the Tories had something special in mind for him (in the Cabinet) then I don't see why they should shed any tears or agonise over this.
Disloyal; easily bribed away; best got rid of, no?
Someone whom the rest of the country has barely heard of has switched allegience, grumbling about how their previous party treated them.
He would probably be a "back bencher for life", with the Tories. He stands a chance of a more senior position within a UKIP parliamentary opposition.
So he's just another self-serving MP with ambitions hitherto frustrated.
Unless the Tories had something special in mind for him (in the Cabinet) then I don't see why they should shed any tears or agonise over this.
Disloyal; easily bribed away; best got rid of, no?
I think the tories gave up on him 4 years ago, after he was found in the house too drunk to vote!
"He denied claims that he fell asleep on the terrace or got a taxi back to his constituency."
He added: "I remember someone asking me to vote and not thinking it was appropriate, given how I was at the time.
"If I was in the sort of situation generally where I thought I was drunk I tend to go home.
"Westminster is a very special situation and all I can say... is given this very embarrassing experience I don't intend to drink at Westminster again."
"He denied claims that he fell asleep on the terrace or got a taxi back to his constituency."
He added: "I remember someone asking me to vote and not thinking it was appropriate, given how I was at the time.
"If I was in the sort of situation generally where I thought I was drunk I tend to go home.
"Westminster is a very special situation and all I can say... is given this very embarrassing experience I don't intend to drink at Westminster again."
Look out for the Labour defectors. UKIP seem to be going down well in Doncaster. After the damp squid of a Labour conference and the figures not adding up I think they are getting wise. I went back to my roots in a Northern town in Lancashire in May after the Euro elections and everyone i spoke to who I would have expected to vote Labour had voted UKIP. Mind you it didn't help when their Labour MP went to jail after the expenses scandal!!!
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