AIBU to hope that there might be something (anything?) good to come out of a new Tory Government?

[Rainbunny]

Or are we doomed?

The point we'll know we're truly doomed is when Gove is brought out of mothballs.

The BBC news chaps would have us believe that Gove is being unpacked as we speak

I think there will be positive constitutional change. The SNP are right that the Tories have no mandate in Scotland now and I think the government are already signalling that will take action to create a looser and more federal UK in recognition of this. Which in turn should solve the West Lothian Question and about bloody time. If we'd ended up with a minority Labour administration with Sturgeon holding Milipede by the short and curries the situation would have just dragged and dragged with catastrophic co sequences.

YABU. Unless you're rich, married and never ill of course

Yes labour will start to listen to it's core voters and fucking sort themselves out.

Ooh no, don't panic, the reshuffle has finished for tonight. As you were!

You can hope...it's all you have.

If you're minted then all is well. Carry on as usual.

So... What do we take from the fact that the BNP polled a total of 1667 votes yesterday - more than a 99% drop from 2010? Has UKIP provided a more respectable home for racism?

Yup, we'll all be so horrified by the changes and impact on the country that we'll be galvanised into revolution.

Reshuffle - looks like key people are staying put, with LD posts being the ones up for grabs

Gove as DPM, anyone?

The stock market went up 2.5% today. On the assumption you've got a million invested (like most people) you made £25,000 today.

No, the plagues of egypt have been unleashed...due to Miliband pretending he was moses. The biblical gods are not happy.

Of course something good will come out of it. I am hoping Labour really take a look at themselves, stop blaming everyone else for this shitstorm and really look at why they did so badly.

I think its good that a lot of 'big names' were ousted. I think some people were just generally too cocky about their chances while not putting the work in. Locally Ed Balls is known as Invisible Ed, its so difficult to see him and even when you do he fails on his promises. He needed to leave and people in this area voted tory as they could not take another 5 years of him.

He only won by 1100 in 2010 (Tories coming second) he could have spent the last 5 years really showing us why we should vote him again and he didn't. He just assumed he would get in again. I would like to see an end to this attitude from MPs and actually work for their constituents.

Murdoch might have made another bob or two. All else, no hope.

We might get an actual socialist to lead the Labour Party. Someone who says "we take care of poor, sick, elderly and young people, and we do it because it is the right thing to do". Or maybe I'm just dreaming.

The tax-free allowance will increase from £10,600 to £12,500.
Minimum wage up to £8 per hour within 5 years.
Some help for first-time buyers.
The changes that have allowed people to access their pensions will stay (Labour might have changed that back).
Double the amount paid for weekly childcare if your children are 3-4 years old.
A freeze on commuter fares for 5 years.
Just trying to pick up on some things that might be encouraging for lower earning working people. Probably waste of time.

This is a good question, what is the outcome that Tory voters are hoping for? Why did they vote for them?

FOOD BANKS. More of them. Is this hope?

I would say the poor, the vulnerable and the sick are fucked. The NHS is also fucked. Can't believe there are so many people in this Country who don't give a toss about all those.

Esther McVey is no longer in the House of Commons

We've seen the back of Farage

Doomed unless you are super wealthy

Farage isn't gone. He's just gone to polish his toenails and play around with his pedi pro till September when he will coyly accept the leadership once more after a unanimous vote.

Asshole.

Nigel Farage said he might stand again in September. So he might be back. I heard another non UKIP politician say he was a breath of fresh air and would be good in the commons.

If applied fairly and reasonably as opposed to punitively, then the "bedroom tax" actually has potential to help out a lot of low-income families.

I didn't vote for them mind. Just saying.

I think there'll be some fundamental changes to the Labour party and we'll see new new Labour. I hope they set themselves up as a proper opposition patty because I honestly think that if they do then they will get in next time. They need to choose a leader who is charismatic and likeable as well as competent. I feel bad for Ed Miliband, he really seemed to want the win more than the others.

I'd like to dream that the minimum wage will be replaced by a living wage, especially if tax credits and other income top up benefits get cut. I'm not an economist or a mathematician but increase the minimum wage to a living wage and it should be possible to cut those benefits without plunging families into poverty. It's puts the onus onto businesses to support their workers rather than the state and would make work pay more than benefits (then does that have a trickle down effect on the economy with people spending more in shops and things because they're earning more?)

I think capping CHB at two children is a bad idea as it's going to compound existing child poverty but, if cuts must be made, I can sort of agree with it being means tested. At least then those that need it will still get it.

Well if you think withdrawing from the EUropean Convention on Human Rights, finishing off emasculating the Trade Unions, leaving the EU, implementing the boundary changes, and further fucking the poor and disabled are good things, then no YANBU