The little-spoken secret here in the UK is that the Tory's have a lock on power for, at least, the next ten years. To take power the Labour party would have to win back 106 seats, which probably isn't going to happen unless somebody slips Dave a hardon pill at the bacon factory on prime-time TV.
This also explains why a) the current Tory party, with a majority of 12, is acting like it shat gold bricks at the last election and b) the Labour party has gone 'weird', in a political mainstream sense, as it tries to work out a survival strategy for the next decade that wasn't immensely stupid - such as persuading people to vote for them because they were actually like Tories, but not quite like the Tories.
The little-spoken secret here in the UK is that the Tory's have a lock on power for, at least, the next ten years. To take power the Labour party would have to win back 106 seats, which probably isn't going to happen unless somebody slips Dave a hardon pill at the bacon factory on prime-time TV.
This also explains why a) the current Tory party, with a majority of 12, is acting like it shat gold bricks at the last election and b) the Labour party has gone 'weird', in a political mainstream sense, as it tries to work out a survival strategy for the next decade that wasn't immensely stupid - such as persuading people to vote for them because they were actually like Tories, but not quite like the Tories.