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  You don't need to be in power to have a decisive impact on the political landscape. I think Farage focused the nation's attention on Europe and took a lot of labour votes away in marginal constituencies while at the last minute a lot of disaffected Tories had second thoughts and "came home".
  
  Any kind of PR would strengthen the grip of the established parties over the political process. The basic problem with the political party model is that there is a tendency for policy to be dictated by the party oligarchy rather than being formulated from grass roots upwards. To my mind that's undemocratic.
  
  Taxpayer funding of political parties is unacceptable. Funding of individual candidates' limited and clearly defined election campaign expenses would be acceptable and much fairer, coupled with a (low) legal cap on campaign spend. We should not have a situation where some candidates can influence the outcome by spending lots of money. Elections should be fought on ideas and issues, not the size of your advertising budget.

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