Fancy a spot of John Bull?

David Lodge (Yes! David Lodge!) has a nice little précis of the current election hubbub across the pond in today's New York Times:

The Labor Party under Tony Blair has occupied much of the center-right territory formerly held by the Conservatives, while the Liberal Democrats, who used to offer a wishy-washy compromise between those two, have moved to the left of Labor. So, as the columnist Simon Jenkins put it in The Times of London the other day, if you want a Conservative government vote Labor, if you want a Labor government vote Liberal Democrat, and if you want a Liberal government vote Conservative. Got that?

Worth a looksee.