The next five years ?...By joining with the Lib/Dems, Cameron has brought the Tories from right wing reactionaries (in spite of Eton lot and the toff brigade) to centre left at a stroke thus elbowing 'New Labour' out of that role as they grapple with their leadership issue. The Tories are not by nature a progressive, all encompassing party so the diehards will drag them back to the right as the coalition breaks down.
We all know we're getting coshed for the next two or three years, right ? So what then ? I'll give it twelve months, at best, before the cracks begin to appear in this 'progressive' alliance. If I'm wrong and by a miracle this coalition goes the full five years, Cameron can't lose. If things come good in time for the next election, which would be May 2015, Cameron takes the credit - Tories win election. If things don't recover Cameron blames Lib/Dems and its a two horse contest between Tories and Labour, by then rejuvenated with a new leader. Either way Lib/Dems lose out and disappear for another seventy years whilst we, joe public, (it goes without saying).. get shafted
