Led, the Revenge

It's a big part of it. Labour had been dropping in the polls for some time now, especially after Blair had left, but there had never been a viable alternative, and when Cameron initially took over the conservatives he tried to be a Blair lite, which went down like a **** sandwich. Although I think people here are now very jaded to either party, they are looking to the tories to bring back a sense of law and order, a sense of national pride and maybe stop the social decay that has been escalating under Labour. For a while now, the saddest part of Labour running rough shod over the populace is that far right groups have been getting protest votes and seats in local council because the average Brit is so sick of being marginalised for interest groups or political correctness and see the BNP as the only people willing to worry about them. Middle England is too tolerant and fair minded as a whole for a party such as that to ever gain power beyond a few council seats, but that's the state of this country and how unhappy people are right now with the liberal agenda.

Perhaps a more recent, and bigger part of the recent voting results is that Brown recently scrapped what's called the 10p tax band, and by doing so has truly screwed the very poor and the elderly. He's trying to compensate by promising more benefits from welfare for these people, but that IMO is what's wrong with a liberal government - they've made it harder for people to make it on their own with their own money and become ever more reliant on government handouts that will effectively keep them down forever. An opinion backed up by financial experts and many in Labours backbench.

Add to that a collapsing economy and house market, which includes wildly escaltaing food prices, and what a lot of people see as a blase attitude towards islamic radicals (NOT what people feel of the military and intelligence services, there is too much evidence of their continuing fight) and immigration (which is totally out of control and encouraged by Labour), a total failure of the legal and justice system, a recent agreement to joining the farce of an EU consitution after promising a referendum of the people and then denying it, and the unparalleled invasion of our privacy and camera surveilance unmatched in ANY Western country. Oh, and we're being taxed through the teeth only to be given failing public services and transport.....

Labour is not coming back IMO. People are finally sick of their self serving ways and arrogance and erosion of the British way of life. Those in Middle England (financially and geographically) as well as the traditional working classes have finally had enough and are now voting, much to the shock of the left and the glee of the tories. A governing party has never been so thoroughly drubbed in local elections in over 40 years.

Of course, it has to be seen whether the tories can reverse the damage, or ultimately have the inclination. Personally, too much damage has been done for a total turn around, but the tories should hopefully bring Britain a ways back to being what she once was.

A long winded answer to your reply perhaps RK, but so much has happened to this country that the reason for political change couldn't be answered simply. What I've seen happen is also why I shifted from the more left wing leanings of my latter teen years through Labours step into power, to my now more right wing beliefs and my dislike for liberals.