some members of my family voted for lib dem and were pissed off to find they had voted tory in the election before last. n fact the liberals used to be quite strong in south west, but they've lost out big time.

seems like the tories are going to be in power for evermore.

Blair should have reformed the electoral system to avoid the Thatcher syndrome. Thatcher ruled and served her little cabal of tame constituencies and sent the rest of the country to hell.

Cameron has an even smaller moral right to be screwing up the country.

the fault lies with Blair. he could have changed things - he didn't. hard to believe that the answer lies with another Blairite government.
a lib dem/ labour compact with the primary concern of electoral reform is the only real hope to deliver us from these extremist governments.