>>>>So who voted this bunch in, despite the warnings from their past Thatcher government,
People voted "this lot" in because yet again Labour managed to nearly bankrupt the country.
And Thatcher was voted in (3 times) because people remmeber the "winter of discontent" when the country was brough to its knees by the unions and the Labour government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent
And the only reason Blair and Brown were able to get into power with a strong stable economy was because of the great way Thatcher ran the country. We were the laughing stock of Europe before she came to power.
But even then Blair and Brown (and Labour) managed to take it from a strong economy to a bankrupt one.
I would rather have a few "rich tories" running the country than the labour party who are happy to let anyone in the country who wants to come here, and pay them huge benefits for sitting on their backside doing nothing.