Political revolution creeps up quietly on British voters

There's a political revolution going on in Britain that seems to have crept up on an unsuspecting British population. It has now become pretty certain that the comfortable days of this country's democracy being dominated by two political parties are gone; the Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband, was so sure of victory in the general election of May this year that vans were readied to move Miliband and his family into 10 Downing Street.

The wheels had in fact started to fall off the Labour Party's electoral bandwagon when Nicola Sturgeon was elected leader of a resurgent Scottish Nationalist Party, which began showing a massive lead over Labour in Scotland, previously regarded as being solidly behind Labour.

Miliband, already faced with a hostile press, refused to agree to any coalition or agreement with the SNP, a move which could have kept the Conservatives out of power in the British parliament.