Or do you mean they'll end up with 35 - 50 after the next election?
With 319 needed to govern, people not enthralled with Brown ...
This could get interesting.
I felt that the 63 seats at the last election was a high water mark.
To push on from that they really needed a new leader who was dynamic and able to command the media. But sadly they decided that would be too exciting and so chose Menzies Campbell; who promptly crumbled into inconsequence and the party more or less vanished from view for about 18 months. Realizing this was a bad thing, they replaced him with Nick Clegg, seemingly on the basis that, if the electorate cannot tell him and David Cameron apart, they might get some tory votes by mistake.
Most would conclude that the Lib Dems are gonna struggle to make 50 seats and that 35 would be a good result given their anonimity. keep to the Fen Causeway
That's probably the best possible outcome, considering.
But I wouldn't write off an historic Tory landslide. The headbanger shock troops are so very, very angry they're much more motivated than the normal people, and turning out in their tens or hundreds may be enough to swing the key marginals, especially if they can take Mr & Ms Protest Vote with them.
I still think that the important vote with a small electoral turnout will be the UKIP vote. that has a possibility to throw a spanner in the Tory works. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Have to find where those headbangers are. If they are all concentrated in Tory-anyway seats it don't mean much. Winning seats by 8% is a waste; need to truck some of those voters to other districts. ;-)
This is, in fact, exactly where national polls fall down for predictive purposes.
