I woder why Dave Cameron recieved of his rich - very rich merchant banker father, just the maximum he could receive before paying death duties.

Now if Labour had pressed on why his other fortune from hid father and not declared, surely they would be on a far bigger winner.

Seems Dave Cameron makes Starbucks look honourable tax avoiders.

Oh how the Nazis blamed their allies when the fighting on the Eastern Front went against them.
Without these allies the German Forces could no more have advanced and held Soviet territory than a middle-weight boxer could take on and win against an opponent two weight-divisions above his own.
The Tories are just a blown-up political middle-weight depending on low turn-out and other political parties to boost them into office.
Of course the Labour Party has some fifth-columnists in the ranks but hopefully nobody on the left will listen to those defeatist voices.

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Oh how the Nazis blamed their allies when the fighting on the Eastern Front went against them.
Without these allies the German Forces could no more have advanced and held Soviet territory than a middle-weight boxer could take on and win against an opponent two weight-divisions above his own.
The Tories are just a blown-up political middle-weight depending on low turn-out and other political parties to boost them into office.
Of course the Labour Party has some fifth-columnists in the ranks but hopefully nobody on the left will listen to those defeatist voices.

Auxiliaries ( Cannon Fodder )

i wonder what would have happened if there had been an unpopular tory government, not a coalition, and the lib dems were another party in opposition.

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Who cares? There wasn't. Accidents of history are important, and the Tories fell 20 seats short. end of.
The left-wing vote has been badly split for 30 years. It looks like that split will not be there to a significant degree in 2014-15. Many of those who voted Libdem in London are horrified, that much I know from anecdote. If it's similar elsewhere, they are toast.

However, an as yet barely mentioned phenomenon is the split in the right-wing vote. I refer to the Tories/UKIP.

Thatcher won two re-elections partly because of the southern economic boom - she did not need the votes of northerners and the unemployed - and partly because of the split from Labour of the SDP, which became allied to the Liberals and later became LibDems. The split ensured Tory victories from Britain's luckiest PM (she also got most of the North Sea oil); the mirror-effect could do the same for Miliband. If it does, I hope he shows some of her radical brio. But nothing else of her....