So, how concerned should we be?

Well, it's been less than a week and things are getting worrying.  Let's leave the economy to one side, shall we?  That's been the main agenda for the entirety of the election (second to immigration), and there are more issues besides.

So, let me list some things that are currently worrying me:

1: Our Health Minister (who has been pro-homeopathy, and also wrote a book on successfully dismantling the NHS), has now been joined by a junior Health Minister, Ben Gummer.  He has been quoted as saying he's against abortion, both "personally and in principle".

It could be construed as "a concern" for women, when their bodily autonomy is in the hands of a MAN who doesn't believe that they should have any.

2: Our Equalties Minister is the second consecutive one to have voted against equal marriage.

3: The government are starting to make the Freedom Of Information Act easier to veto, while at the same time, issuing statements like this:

"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone',"

This is a hugely worrying statement, in terms of its wording, and could be a potential encroaching of our rights as people.  And it's not the first time a British Prime Minister has used terrorism as an excuse to do something questionable, is it?

4: Our new Justice Secretary, the erstwhile education CHAMP Michael Gove, is not only tasked with repealing the Human Rights Act (with a British Bill Of Rights), but has also written in defence of the Death Penalty.  It's not known if he still holds this view, but the new Employment Secretary has also been known to want to bring back hanging.

Gove, meanwhile, also has no interest in investigating the widely-reported Westminster Paedophile Ring.  Now, I might be wrong, but if allegations of this sort of corruption were floating around, you'd want that looked into, right?

5: Plans to repeal the Hunting Ban.  Of what benefit is it that some people miss shooting things or having a pack of dogs rip foxes apart?

So.  This is all stuff from the last five days.  Some of the most ill-advised postings one could ever imagine, and decisions that you wouldn't make by accident.  Combined with incoming austerity cuts that will be affecting the most vulnerable people in society, is all this worth simply getting the economy back on track?

I don't know about you, but I'm finding this first week deeply unsettling.