Only the Ethnics will vote Labour and Liberal!!!

Why do the people keep voting the same rubbish back in to power, do they enjoy being treated like fools and ---- upon from a great height..

The reality is it means little , the party holding the seat retained it , it is a safe Labour seat in any event; the turnout was half what would be expected at a general election ; the next general election is 3 years away , some 50 seats will have vanished ( mostly currently Labour held as it happens ) and new electoral boundaries wil be in place and more equally sized electorates of 70- 80 thousands voters per constituency - so one could conclude nothing of significance even if the Tories had won - now if UKIP had one you might draw a different conclusion of some significance but they didn't

I suspect that Cameron is pleased that he did not win this seat...he will not have to visit it, and be mugged!!!

What this election said to anyone who is listening, is that more than 70% of the electorate did not even bother to vote at all. They left it to a small minority who were bothered enough to vote. This follows the long-term voting trend which is down, as people walk away from politics.

Seem to be missing the point here.
They did NOT win they already held the position they merely retained their hold on Feltham&Heston.

All that means is that people do not like losing benefits or jobs.

I really can't believe the British public are still voting for 3 main parties?. UKIP would have had my support! How the heck labour won is beyond me, U've got Milliband who wants us in the heart of the EU and would join the euro tmw if he could! Another thing I find amazing is obvs the good old british public don't mind all 3 parties remaining us in the EU and paying £50 million a day to be in! What I would say to those who do vote for any of the 3 main is.... dont moan services are being cut, dont moan about immigration out of control and europeans coming in whenever they like and taking what jobs and benefits we do have.

Basically that there are still some nutcases out there prepared to vote for the monster raving loony party otherwise known as New Labour. Then again I can understand it given the sheer desperation of having absolutely no one worth voting for, but surely you could just have not voted at all. We dont matter to parliament anyway!

What does this by election mean? It means that we are suffering with an incompetent government that does not live in the real world and lord help us if labour get back in because they proved over the last 13 years that they were no better, if not worse. All hope is gone.

Another piece of England lost forever, I sense another Tower Hamlets coming on.

The link from AOL what does this by-election win mean for Labour should read what does the by-election mean for the British political system.
The turn out was 29% the lowest for 11 years, the last general election did have an increased turn out after years of Labour, but after seeing the Tories in action again we are back to hearing people say “they are only in for themselves and their buddies” and why both they don’t listen any way, I am not pointing the finger at any one party but the political system as a whole.
One area that has to cleaned up is lobbying, a person with enough money in their bank to afford lobbying companies as more sway then a million constituents, on the other side the unions lobby to push their political agenda through. They should have no more access to our politicians than the person in the street, MPs surgeries and letters.
Lobbying needs to be regulated more closely with lobbyist clients, amount of money paid, advantages to that client and MP’s and ministers that have been approach reviled and made easily available to the general public and the process take out of the shade.
Stop lobbying and we will see corruption and back handers in politics fall and the people entering politics to feather their own nest think twice about it and open the way for people who want to represent the majority.