I was looking forward to Gordon Brown taking over Labour. In an overly-simplified, and perhaps optimistic view, I imagined that during his time under Tony Blair he was thinking of ways to "re-invent" or at least progress, and revamp, the Labour party. This initially seemed to be the case, when the rhetoric about the Iraq war was somewhat retreated on by David Milliband (if I remember correctly), however after that it just seemed to be more and more issues suggesting incompetence.
On the other hand, I've never really trusted the Tory party - somehow I've constantly felt that behind Cameron's modernisation, pseudo-liberalisation and apparent departure from "old Tory politics", it's the same party in disguise - but then given the string of Labour failings, I suppose maybe it's time another party "had a chance" (although that sort of makes light the whole point of politics and progressive change). I would have fewer problems with the Tories in power had the proposed coalition between the Tories and Lib Dems gone through