So the Lib Dems have given David Cameron what he has long dreamed of, and what he could never quite achieve on his own: an entrenched leftward shift of the Conservative centre of gravity.
The bedrock of the Conservative party, though, the quiet heartbeat of the Tory shirearchy, will wake up this morning with the terrible realisation that their worst fears about Cameron were justified. He isn't really one of them. Cameron has swept their party out from under their feet.
And the Lib Dems find that their bad dream about finding themselves accidentally in bed with their worst enemy isn't a nightmare at all. It is real.
The Lib Dems will get used to this. It's easier to be a vegetarian among carnivores than a carnivore among vegetarians.
The quiet Conservatives of the Shires, the people who saw in Ian Duncan Smith a reflection of themselves, are going to find it a whole lot harder. They are the ones with the real nightmare.
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