"If the image of the company is not satisfactorily strong in the public sentiment's mind it's easy for agents to whip up community outrage through the Internet through e mail, what have you, so the newspapers pick it up and say the foreign company is out to take advantage of Korea,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Maybe the subtle mind of the government Chief Whip, Sir George Young, will find a way to induce the minor parties to side with the Conservatives, but it seems to me that the main impact of the vote will be to poison Coalition relations.

BBC: Week ahead