"... more Tories literally died than switched to Labour..."

-- Doesn't surprise me in the least. One of the electorate's most damaging idiocies is the way millions of them vote for sweatshirts rather than their contents, and switching from a blue one to a red one is for many a literally unthinkable act. On top of which there is the drag-anchor of information resistance: it will take 'normal' people literally 40 years to notice a meaningful change like the Labour Party turning totally Tory: for (again) millions of them, 'Labour' remains what they heard it was 40 years ago.

M.