Social amnesia also seems to have wiped out of the national memory the inflation rate of 21.9%, and the billions of pounds owed to the International Monetary Fund, in 1979 under the same smiling Jim Callaghan. Two problems that Maggie DID manage to solve in a remarkably short time, albeit with a severe rise in unemployment.
It should be remembered that Tony inherited the current inflation rate, which had already been stable for some time, as a direct result of Maggie's policies. Hasn't done much with that head start, has he?
I suspect that, if Maggie Thatcher had stepped down in '88, when her policies began to come unglued, we might have had an acceptable Tory party now, either as a good opposition, or more likely as a moderate government.
Food for thought? Perhaps Tony should think about that.