Of course, I doubt things will get much better replacing Labour with non-Thatcherite Tories. The new London Mayor Boris Johnson is certainly not much of a prize so far. The UK badly needs leadership with real balls... balls enough to start running the Dark Age hordes out of the country before it truly is too late.
I think there is still hope. I spent a lot of time in England and still miss it, and have been reading the papers for years. I have never seen so much fury from the Real People as in the last year or so, or so much abuse from a Government there.
A few more years of this without some kind of correction, and their "leadership" should fear for their very lives.