""Villan, you must have a short memory indeed. The purpose of conservatism is to prevent change and to entrench power and privilege. It is what its name means. The present lot, who have hardly a true socialist among them, are babes in arms beside the conservatives when it comes to evil.""

With the evidence to the contrary staring you right in the face, you still can't see the inherent fallacy of your expressed viewpoint Richard.

Over the last thirteen years (not ten), we have had a government which calls itself labour, and is a complete and total perversion of eveything the labour movement stands for. Look at the achievements (or lack of achievement) of those years, and one simple fact becomes very clear.

There are so many parallels, that the Blair/Brown regime is exposed as being more Thatcherite than Cameron could ever hope to be.

My point is this. Given the change in labour party, to win in 1997, is it really so unbelievable that Cameron and Co may also have changed from the Tories of Thatcher's time.

I know you have this reverse snobbery attitude to Etonians, Richard, but Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, hardly a member of that group.

Don T.