Or they might wait for it all to end with a whimper. Things go wrong, disillusion and boredom are dangerous. Workable new ideas get thin on the ground. The ennui of the press creates an overpowering destructive urge. The New Deal may have rescued a lost generation of the unemployable, but problems solved are quickly problems forgotten.
Great good achieved is never as newsworthy as lesser things left undone.
Weariness, cynicism and short memories about the Tory past may all offer a flicker of encouragement to forlorn Conservatives in exile. But frankly, if I was their friend, I'd recommend they go away and get a proper job. There will be no change of government in their political lifetime. There is no inevitable swing of the pendulum, no good reason why this Labour government might not last indefinitely. Consider how badly we were governed 10 years ago by inferior people of largely ill-intent.