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Originally Posted by Zee

Makes perfect sense if they've agreed upon a strategy to undermine Labour's return to government. They know that they are highly unpopular regardless of what they've actually done with their time in power, because things were already bad before they stepped in and made them worse. If they can get things to be so bad for the next government then they can hope that they'll get into power 4 years later and take it from there. Might sound ludicrous but it's a perfectly logical strategy in my opinion. Cameron probably isn't expecting to still be in charge, he knows that when his time is up, that'll be him finished.

Ehh I don't think so, I'd actually say the Tories have every chance of being re-elected (though I doubt with a majority); the economy has picked up considerably the last few months and it's only going to get better, and they are currently up against one of the weakest opposition leaders in recent times. Even when things were really bad Miliband couldn't gain a big lead in the polls and most of them showed that a lot of people still don't consider him to be Prime Minister material. And as unpopular as Osborne is lots of people also find it very hard to trust Balls. Like people say, just a week is a long time in politics, in 2 years everything could have changed.

I just can't imagine they have this grand plan where they are purely planning for the 2020 election now, what's the point of Cameron, Osborne etc. doing that when it would cost them their jobs? I can't see why they would accept this strategy when there is no personal benefit to them