Years of fighting the bastards first from a position on the real left and then in the we're-not-really-all-that-left party and then - yay! - here come the socialists and you're in a proper lefty party again but you're still the irrelevant pathetic party that all the comedians joke about because the damn fool voters are too thick to see that you have the answers and deserve to be in government and then your impossible dream becomes reality and your team is in government I mean actually oh my god! in government even if it is with those bastards and blimey! you're a Secretary of bloody State no less with actual power and you're having real meetings with all the important people around the real Cabinet Table in the real Cabinet Room actually inside Number Ten Downing Street and people are listening to you well some of the time anyway and you completely forget that your parliamentary seat is no longer safe and you might be out of a job in four years' time because for now there is a real job to do and you are being allowed to do it well some of it some of the time but then it comes back to you washing over you in a horrible wave how vulnerable you are and then you realise that the people calling the shots are those two bastards across the table and they're the epitome of everything you hate and have spent your adult life fighting against and now your project to change the voting system little by little and get to full PR which will spatchcock the bastards once and for all and incidentally see you safe in government until retirement is crumbling because the campaign is going more and more their way with every poll and your lot are going to get pretty much wiped out and those bastards will have won and they will smirk all the way to the next election when you will probably lose your seat and it will all come crashing down and you'll have to crawl back into banking if they'll have you after all the banker-bashing or you could go to Brussels but you'll have to pull something really big between now and 2015 but those bastards are making you sick really sick and it's almost referendum day and it's all going terribly terribly wrong and the red mist descends and you forget about decorum and about there's a time and place and about your responsibilities as a Secretary of State and that this is a meeting of the full Cabinet of the people who actually govern the country and are running several real shooting wars and Clegg is fucking useless to the party now he's DPM and I'll have his job too the turncoat bastard he should just join the Bastard Party and have done with it yes I'll have his job and what the hell do or die now or never tell it like it is right in their bastard faces and now you are glaring and pointing and shouting and waving bits of paper and everyone is looking at you strangely but you don't stop and you're threatening to...
Yes, you can see how it could happen.
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