Well, when a party has lost an election, what's supposed to happen is they spend the next several years figuring out what the people actually want. (Or, more c

Well, when a party has lost an election, what's supposed to happen is they spend the next several years figuring out what the people actually want. (Or, more cynically, at least what the people want to hear.) That's where the feedback gets listened to - when they're out of power.