tories

The difficulty is that there was just a general election where the Tories won a majority of seats and got the largest share of the popular vote.

If the Tories come back with the same draft or worse, it will have a very hard time.

As an example: The Tories now has a majority in parliament despite gaining only 36.9% of the vote.

Scotland is basically irrelevant for the Tories today - they won't ever win many seats there any more.

So because the Tories ran on this, it massively curtails what the Lords can do unless they break from tradition (which is highly unlikely).

The Tories have a slimmer majority now than they had in the coalition, and a Lords which isn't all roses and flowers about this.

It was the least-worst system we could talk the Tories into voting for a referendum on.

London always votes against the Tories and we have still ended up with a Tory government.

I'm not politically inclined to Tories but this fact can't be distorted.

(Murdoch's plans won't work, of course, but that won't stop the Tories pushing through harmful laws).

The Tories got a larger proportion of the total vote than Labour did in 2005 (35.2%), and I don't remember hearing much uproar about that.

So while the Tories will be better than Labour in some ways, they're sure to be worse in other ways: meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Obviously the UK can't "run out of money", the Tories missed their own immigration target by a factor of 10, and joining the Euro was always a Conservative ambition (remember Black Wednesday?).

However this will never happen because: 1) it involves borrowing money for the "poor" 2) it involves planning for something longer than two years 3) it will lower house prices for the very voters that got the tories into government.

Similarly, it also overstates the Tories' success in England — actually only 41% of the vote.

Tories now have majority rule in the house of commons for 5 years, which means they can push whatever they want as long as they're aligned without being reigned in.

Tories scare the life out of me, they have a history of being self-serving.