That's true, but anyone who is labouring under the illusion that Labour could ever again (at least in my lifetime) get a majority double the current Tory one (which is what Blair did twice), which would need bags of Scottish seats (as likely as a duff bottle of Hirondelle), is whistling in the dark. The landscape has changed irrevocably. I'm all for informal case-by-case alliances, but the plain fact is that anything formal can only work if no party has an overall majority, and, as I said, I want it to be my choice to vote tactically or not. If Labour declines to put up a candidate in North Cornwall in an attempt to get a LibDem elected, I would feel disenfranchised and I would leave the party. I see the LibDems as a despicable bunch of unprincipled, lightweight opportunists. And last time that smaller party threw their hat in the ring with the Tories they were punished almost to extinction in the next election. For me that was the only highlight of the 2015 election. And let's not forget what happened to the SDP. No-vision chancers who helped to keep Thatcher in power. One day Labour will win again. The party was a basket case in the mid-80s and twelve years later got in with a massive majority. Who'd have thought it (or is that me whistling in the dark...). We play to win and we must do it on our own. In m'humble, of course.