Things that you are optimistic about with the new Tory government

Soutra

Definitely better weather, or possibly worse.

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

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

And that's why referenda are scary!

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 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

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

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

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

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

I thought we already had that Act, petra

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...

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

That honeymoons don't last for ever

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

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

That the economy will continue to slowly recover.

Nothing.