Things that you are optimistic about with the new Tory government

Nothing.

That the economy will continue to slowly recover.

And that the benefits will trickle down to all the poor and disadvantaged before they die of old age.

That it gives a few years space for the left to reflect, regroup, rise and win the next election

That honeymoons don't last for ever

That when all the Tory bashing threads on Gransnet have run out of steam we'll talk about something else?

A Re wrighting of the HR act so that a murderer, rapist who came to this country illegally, got himself a cat and is given leave to stay.

That could take a long time, merlot! (about 5 years?)

Mind you, if Labour had won the triumphal threads would probably have gone on for that long too...

I thought we already had that Act, petra

Ah but would the Tory 'losers' have gone on and on and on about it?

Of course not. Bite the bullet and be stoical about it merlot!

Petra <sigh> do you really still believe that story?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-politics-15171980

And Petra you should be careful about calling someone a murderer and a rapist especially when he was a student who had only overstayed his visa

The trouble is that many people don't have the time (or sometimes inclination) to read /research widely enough to clarify facts or to challenge their prejudices. I know that I can take things at face value in the media sometimes and get the wrong information. And let's be honest there is more right of centre controlled media pumping out the 'news' than left of centre. The Morning Star is the one newspaper with a really alternative perspective to mainstream and that is not in many newsagents just to pick up and browse! Media is extremely powerful and although we like to think we are not influenced by it I believe we all are!

And that's why referenda are scary!

Optimistic that Cameron will not be PM in five years time.

Well that's a given - he'll have to go before 2020 to give Boris the chance to settle in before the GE

Definitely better weather, or possibly worse.

Soutra

That after 10 years the Conservatives will finally take responsibility for what they have done /will do and not blame the last Labour government or the fact that the coalition "didn't let them".

please please please can we stop the left-leaners whinging incessantly and constantly posting links to rabid articles in the leftist papers and blogs that lots of us do not want to read
it is massively boring and I have been ignoring the previous threads only for the posters to pop up on this thread like a persistant irritant.
I am optimistic that they will do something about the welfare system we cannot afford without hurting those who are really in need (unselfish mode on)
I am optimistic because we have escaped 5 years of Ed Milliband in charge
I am optimistic because I hope we have a referendum on the EU
and finally I am optimistic that Scotland will be given the independence we are ALL hoping for

Incessantly whinging?
Rabid?
Scottish independence "we are All hoping for"?

That being PC rather than really thinking about stuff will go out of fashion.

That people will come to understand what freedom of speech actually means.

I think there's more of a chance of these things coming to pass under a Tory government than under the Labour Party as led by EM.

I've never voted Tory btw but Tony Blair and Ed Miliband wrecked Labour for me.