Analysis of the Henley by-election result shows a haemoraging of votes from Labour as Richard McKenzie came a poor fifth in the Henley by-election behind the Greens and the BNP.

McKenzie's plans to surround Henley with CCTV cameras simply did not strike a chord with the voters. "The Conservatives and Lib Dems have lost the plot on law and order," he told us. "People will just not be safe until your Labour government has installed cameras in every home, tracking devices in every car and computer chips in every person. After all if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to tax. And it's ridiculous to say that there are too many CCTVs, you can never have enough. You never know what you might find trawling through the hours of non-evidential quality footage. Hang on, I can see the net curtains twitching. I wonder if that is maximum zoom?"

His failed campaign had been masterminded by Reading West MP Martin Salter. "It's a grim result." he said. Our vote was squeezed very, very badly by the BNP. Obviously 42 days for holding Muslims without charge isn't enough and I shall be urging Gordon Brown to increase the limit to 180 days to shore up our vote as soon as possible."