@Tea, I just don't see all that - I think that's a fairly widely-held misperception that is one of the great rewritings of 1980s history. Cameron is, on opinion polls, way more popular than Thatcher was at this point in his premiership, is the horrible truth. Take away the Falklands weighting, and his economic policies seem to be more widely accepted. From the 1981 figures, there were more Tories at that time who were genuinely upset by Thatcher's policies than there are now upset by Cameron's policies. I've head more people than I care to have heard, support him generally, always using the words 'but what about the deficit?'.
taking your point about such things as forests, but I think those are secondary to issues on which most Tory supporters (and others perhaps) think he is getting things right. I'm not sure about the libraries thing, as as is shown re the Hillingdon libraries, they'll just incorporate elements of privatisation to survive. Also, I dont' think the Tory leadership is stupid as regards its own popularity - it knows what would throw lots of trad supporters off-side, and it won't do it unless it's keeping them onside with other policies (possibly learning from thatcher's experiences).
Re the 1 per cent: yep, i think it is considerably greater than that. I as a fairly secure employed middle class person haven't seen my standard of living drop appreciably, even if I know the job market is tougher than it was. The cuts have hit a certain sector of society; until the realities around the NHS etc become clearer, then that's probably going to be the way it will continue. for people above a certain amount of thousands per year, nothing is gonna make much difference economically anyway, as they already earn more than they need.
It's also relative well-offness that is always going to matter to some degree. And then there's psychology - a lot of people are scared about losing int he same way as those worse-off have lost; but instead of fighting the oppressor, they'll cling closer as if that will save them somehow (illogically, of course). Not explained it very well, but I think that kind of self-defeating psychology is prevalent (was just discussing Doreen Lawrence taking an OBE and thanking the police last week, which led me to think along these lines, and she's obviously been through unimaginably worse things than most people).