JeffB, I think you're missing the point. Yes, the Tories will be in power until 2020, and yes, they'll be aiming to shove all kinds of poisonous legislation down our throats. So nothing new there.

However, we now appear to have a Labour leadership which is in tune with the activist grassroots. Which means that the battle against EG., anti-trade union legislation will take place both inside parliament and outside. In other words, direct action is about to come into its own, and that is something which the Tories have not had to face in a very long time.

Remember Ed Miliband decrying the fact that local government workers went on strike to oppose Tory imposed cuts in their pensions? I think that Cameron and co will find it much more difficult to get their own way quite as easily in future.