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Is the Haltemprice and Howden by-election a case of pure democracy?
Is the Haltemprice and Howden by-election a case of pure democracy?
Last Modified: 08 Jul 2008
By:
Andrew Thomas
More4 News unravels this week's Haltemprice and Howden by-election; the one caused by the resignation of David Davis.
He's a candidate for re-election, along with 25 others, none of whom are from the Labour or Liberal Democrat parties.
The absence of the main parties has caused the mainstream political establishment and, for that matter, the mainstream political lobby in the press, to give the election a wide berth.
So if you're one of those people who complain that political parties wield too much power, then this is surely one of the purest forms of politics: just 41,000 voters, the ballot box, and 26 candidates, as Andrew Thomas reports.
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