What price marriage?
The Conservatives have come up with the idea that families are good and better if they’re married. In their attempt to promote marriage, they have suggested a £20 a week tax break, effectively putting a price on what should be a contract you enter into for love and not financial reward or other convenience.
Aside from putting a value of £1040 a year on marriage, which according to the Church of England’s form for the solemnization of matrimony, “no one should enter into … lightly or selfishly”, there is at least one large, logical flaw. If you accept the (frankly preposterous) idea that £20 a week will secure a relationship, you have to ask why that extra help is going to the people that the Conservatives think are already in a more stable relationship than to those who are in a less stable relationship.
I would add that the Conservatives can’t really complain about social engineering anymore…
xD.
