Clegg says LD won't join with Cameron if UKIP or SNP is in there too, but it looks like he'll be out as LD leader when he loses his own seat. Unless the Conservatives wrap up a little on the high side from that sweet spot in the middle of that chart, it will be a three-party coalition, at least. Unless...
The biggest potential surprise in recent political history in the UK would be if SNP was willing to about-face and join the Tories; it would shatter Miliband's hold on Labour leadership. Sturgeon and the SNP screwing Miliband and Labour wouldn't be all that surprising though, now, would it? That Tories-SNP coalition possibility would have to be #6 on the above list. ;')
- > Conservative-Lib-Dem coalition
- Labour-SNP pact
- > Labour-Lib Dem
- Labour/Lib Dem/SNP pact
- > Conservative-led multi-party pact (UKIP & Democratic Unionists)
- > Conservative-SNP pact (Euroskepticism out, more of SNP's social spending, same immigration policies as before; Tories screw UKIP, SNP screws Labour, everybody screws the LD; Miliband out, Clegg out)