Very cool, if true

Of course the alternative to the coalition was a Conservative majority government. It would (most likely) have been a repeat of 1974, with the newly-elected minority government calling fresh elections after a few months and winning a majority. The great achievement of the Lib Dems in the coalition was the Fixed Term Parliament Act preventing Cameron from doing this, and ensuring that the brakes were kept on the Tories for five years instead of six months.