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It's funny isn't it. In some ways this coalition has been more coherent than some of Tony Blair's when he was having significant back bench revolts.
I thought it would fall apart in the first year but they have managed to be fairly effective (they have done stuff as opposed to the stuff they have done having a positive effect).
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If your aim is to keep a certain party out of government then it's a tactic to vote for the candidate most likely to beat that party's candidate - even if they are not the candidate that you favour for any other reason.
Nobody ever gets the government they want because even one-party governments, internally, are coalitions. Tory leaders, and Prime Ministers, have been struggling for 30 years to keep their internal coalition together when it comes to Europe, for example.