World Politics

In Italy last week, conservative Silvio Berlusconi was returned to office with big margins. What was even more significant was that, in a country where MPs are elected by proportional representation, where 3 soft-core porn actresses have held seats, the Italian Communist party and their close personal friends, the Greens failed to win a single seat.
Yesterday, in England, the socialist Labor party suffered a defeat that could be compared to "national thermonuclear devastation". Even in the left-leaning bastion of London the mayor, "Red" Ken Livingstone, has been turned out.

With pro-capitalist, conservative governments now in power in Germany, France, and now England, is it too much to expect that the same could happen here?