General election, 2015!

It puzzles me when the media speculate about how Tories and Lib Dem are going to campaign for the 2015 election with their current coalition position, some suggesting that there will be joint campaign where Tories and LD candidates will concede seats for each other. It seems to me that the British media's over-active reporting is the result of under-active imagination.

Naturally, there are too many variables as to what will happen in over 4 years time. The coalition might not last until then. The public poll might swing many times before the actual election. There may even be change of leadership as history suggests. Some MPs might be have been prosecuted with their expense claim scandal. It seems absurd for journalists and broadcasters to be asking politicians now how the coalition will work out for the election results when wars, terrorist attacks, climate change could have bigger impact on our lives between now and then.

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