text:  It certainly didn't help that you had this split on the right, which ate terribly into their vote. I mean, historically in Britain, there has only really been one important party of the right, and that's the Conservatives, whereas the parties of the left have been split between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats in particular. Well, this time there was a major party of the right, which took 14% of the vote and did untold damage to the Conservative Party.