IDS marriage

[LegoStuckinmyhoover]

He says it isn't "absurd and damaging" in voicing support for marriage and it doesn't stigmatise single people and cohabitees.

Absolutely gobsmackingly amazed at just how thick people like him must think we are. He is, in the same breath, blaming single parent households and their children for, seemingly, all the anti-social behaviour etc [again] in the UK.

So, whilst giving married couples with kids a financial incentive, they are making divorced/seperated couples pay to recieve maintenance from NRP through the CSA. Thereby pushing more one parent households into poverty. Something, isn't adding up here MR.Smith...

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/08/iain-duncan-smith-tax-breaks-married-couples

But Lego,

Didn't you know that marriage is the cure for everything? Including the common cold?

Personally I think that IDS is bonkers - I don't see how he can possibly justify making person A pay tax X because they are single/divorced/cohabiting and making person B (same job, same workplace) pay tx minus £10/week because they are married.

And all the time it is perfectly possible for person A to be an exemplary parent committed to their partner whilst person B is sleeping around and beating up their kids.

But then the Tories have always been a bit mad on this subject.

Only 4 years and 3 months to go until the next elections, let's hope enough people see sense.

Not only is he "blaming single parent households and their children for, seemingly, all the anti-social behaviour etc [again] in the UK", he's expecting them to cough up for the marrieds as well.

Not read teh link but presume (!?) that childless marrieds don't get a tax break? Or do they?

He can fuck off. And I don't usually swear.

As if a crappy £10 a week tax break would have stopped my husband cheating on me for three years then destroying our family by moving out to shack up with his mistress. Who apparently he will marry when the divorce comes through thereby benefitting from said tax break despite the fact he is now better off than he was before. Because he clearly deserves to be rewarded by the state while I am a feckless single mother who deserves to be punished for my failure to keep a man.

I really thought the Tories had changed [naive emoticon]. But no...wankers