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I'll believe it when I see it. We've managed to keep these idiots in power for 14 years longer than we should have - I still have plenty of doubts.
Yeah, there's plenty of 'shy' Tories. By rights, after all they've done, they should be reduced to double figures but I am braced for them to only lose a hundred odd seats.
To be honest the dream result for me would them to lose just the right amount for labour to need to form a coalition with the Lib Dems and for the Lib Dems to demand PR as this price.
PR would destroy the Tories for good as the collection of interests that make them up would cause them to split into multiple parties.
Under PR the UK would almost always elect a centre left coalition. The only reason the Tories and the right seem to have so much power is that anyone who wants to vote right pretty much has one option. Whereas left of centre splits between labour, green, lib dem.
It wouldn't surprise me if the liberals just prop up the tories with a coalition again.