Shouldn't the Tories be expecting a landslide?

[LaTrucha]

And what does it mean that they're not?

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I would have thought thet after 13 years of Labour government and the difficult economic times we're living through, the Conservatives would be expecting a very comfortable majority, maybe even a landslide. Firstly, people just get fed up of parties in government and decide to try the other lot. Secondly, this might be expected to happen even more when the economy is going badly (whoever's fault it is).

And yet no one is predicting it as a dead cert or even an almost cert. They weren't even before The Nick Clegg / debate thing began.

I do expect the Conservaties to win, although I'm not happy about it, but if I were David Cameron, I'd be really concerned, at the least puzzled.

My question is not really of whether the Toreis are good or bad, although obviously I have expressed my opinion, but more about why they aren't predicted to do much better than they are predicted to do.

Client state under Labour?

Well, ScaryTeacher, good for you. I wasn't personally affected by negative equity, but thousands were trapped, unable to move, or sell, and the reposessions tore many families apart. It went on for about 4 years.

I'm not saying it's good now, I'm not going to defend Labour economy that enabled house prices to balloon, but crisis and recession certainly isn't a phenomenum restricted to Labour governments.