Probably no purpose at all for you - they were aimed at the (very significant) number of people who now see the Tories through rose-tinted spectacles, mainly because they are "not Labour", and who have no direct recollection of just how bad Thatcherism was ...Thanks for those words of comfort DB – not exactly sure what purpose they serve;

No matter how shite Gordon Brown is turning out to be, I suspect the country would have crawled over broken glass to get him at the depths of Thatcherism ...