get back in with 300 or 400 votes i and there s a reform candidate who takes your votes away, - that s going to have a real impact. so it s certainly a headache . the conservatives don t want. i don t think there s anything they can do about it. - mary, are these by elections useful for the labour party as a springboard or an inconvenience and a waste of money when the party would rather be focusing on the general election? well, they are a huge. well, i say as a springboard, assuming labour does well in them, which they might not, but they have in many other by elections. we had absolutely extraordinary results. i was out in both tamworth and in mid bedfordshire, sort of looking at the streets and the doors and the thatched cottages that we were knocking on in mid bedfordshire. and it s a part of the world i know quite well from my work at cranfield university, but you know, it was literally amazing to see mid bedfordshire coming to us from nadine dorries, from the conservatives. i th
<p>Third parties can temporarily capture the public if they meet a moment of discontent with resources and a compelling personality; building for the long-term is something very different. </p>
i do think it will happen someday, i really do. sadly, i don t think any of us will be alive for it. that is what you need to do. our system is catered to benefit a democrat or republican to winning, not a libertarian, not a green party candidate, not a reform candidate. the duopoly. there s the presidential debate and they will never let outside voices come in and challenge the status quo, unfortunately. republicans don t want to get behind the prudential debate commission. they are opposed to it as well. go to. let the libertarians. we have had different hearty start history. now we don t have parties, we have factions. and there something to that. decent people and i love the notion. the two pillars are reinvigorate a fair and flourishing economy and to give americans more choices in elections and confidence in a government that works and more