The plain truth here is most of the electorate voted for left or centre-left parties:

Labour won 29% of the vote, the Lib Dems 23% - 52% of the vote excluding the smaller parties which are virtually all left of centre with the exception of the DUP.

This means 52% of the voting electorate believe in socially democratic politics, as opposed to the 36% of Tory voters still clinging to the outdated politics of self. That is a mandate for a Lib-Lab coalition and I'm hoping that's how it will pan out. The utter rejection of right-wing politics is heartening, and I hope Clegg has the wisdom to see the time for a new progressive political system is here and he could never achieve that with the Conservative party.