naomi...thanks for your honest answer. I understand why you did what you did, although I obviously don't share your view.
But I am unsure about your assertion regards Conservative to Labour. A lot is said about floating voters but in actual fact they are not really a huge number. But floating voters alone cannot alone be held responsible for the landslide of 1997. People deserted the Tories in droves, and voted for Labour. No other explanation is possible to explain the results that May.
Those same voters stayed with Labour again in 2001, where Labour again held a huge majority. It was only in 2005 that we saw the Tories begin to fight back.
So where did all those Labour votes come from in 1997, if it wasn't from the Tories ? It can't be that more people voted in 1997, as the popular vote
actually went down.
See this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1997
In 1992 the popular vote amongst the 3 main parties was 31,652,875. But in 1997, it dropped to 28,362,051. So it can't have been "new" voters that made the difference in 1997, ie ones that didn't vote in 1992, so therefore the Labour victory was largely achieved by Tory voters changing to Labour.
The maths don't lie !