00:00Make some noise, we're done for Redskins!
00:07Party leaders don't normally hit the Kent coast twice in one week.
00:12But then again, it's not every day the Green Party turns the tides on a Reform UK stronghold.
00:20Full Cliftonville, Rob Yates!
00:26As Zach Polanski joined new Kent County Councillor Rob Yates in Thanet to celebrate victory in a heavily contested by
00:35-election.
00:36It was just days before that Polanski was rallying the troops in the light of a Margate sunset on the
00:44eve of polling day.
00:46We are rejecting the politics of hate and division.
00:49Last year the Green Party only got 576 votes in Cliftonville.
00:55This time around they secured more than 2,000.
00:58A new day perhaps for the left-wing party's chances in future elections across Kent.
01:05I think it's huge for the Green Party in Kent but most importantly for the people of Kent.
01:10Because actually what I think this is showing is that there's nowhere where the Green Party can't win.
01:14And far too often places in Kent were written off as reform territory or places that felt, well they didn't
01:19feel left behind, they had been left behind.
01:21And actually what Cliftonville have just got is someone who will support people in Kent whether they voted for him
01:26or not.
01:28And I think that's a message that will resonate right across Kent that there's nowhere we're going to be leaving
01:32behind.
01:32The Green Party are going to be campaigning in all corners of Kent.
01:35Not everyone was as happy with the result.
01:38Reform UK KCC leader Lyndon Kemkaren was keen to make a quick exit from the count.
01:45Her party lost by more than 300 votes.
01:50In their view this was all about the anti-reform vote coming together rather than their base of support falling
01:58apart.
01:59Look at our vote, we dropped from 1900 to 1700 so we obviously dropped a slight bit but no I
02:04think at the moment this is a protest vote.
02:06Though they may have gained one more member in the council chamber, the Greens will still be the fourth largest
02:13party in County Hall.
02:15But with a big win under their belts, Polanski could be back here in Kent sooner than his critics may
02:23like.
02:23Olly Leader in Margate.
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