The Tories have declared plans to give a tax break (and a miserly one at that) to married couples and civil partners and in doing so have unveiled just how committed to short-sighted social engineering they are.
Domestic social units of more than one person would be better encouraged, and maintained, by teaching relationship skills (including parenting) at school and after, rather than trying to cement people together via a financial bribe which, without such skills, can make for misery and trap individuals in abusive relationships.
It is endemic bullying in the form of wilful emotional abuse, in each and every walk of life, that damages the so-called “fabric of society” and not any lack of financial incentive or absence of "message" that the Tories maintain would be sent via such a policy. Tackling this issue is what is fundamental; the deliberate diversion from it: of attempting to manipulate the citizens of this country to dwell in numbers that conform to some cynical ideal of “family values”, is not only futile, but is as outdated as it is sinister.
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