Family

Just discovered that the Whigs have been unable to stop the Tory plan to reward marriage with £150 in tax breaks.

Despite the various anomalies, such as the fact that it will punish widows and widowers for negligently allowing their partners to die of cancer or get run over by cunts, or cause a quandary for quite a lot of people who quote statistics that show that women tend to feel less fulfilled after they get married, the LibDems best response is to abstain.

This means that without a serious rebellion for the members of the Conservative Party who aren't still living in the 19th century it's pretty much certain that in the middle of an economic crisis we're going to spend millions of pounds on the lamest behavioural engineering experiment since my mum offered me 20p to tidy my room.

No wonder the pound is plummeting. Which will make £150 even more pathetic.

11 May 2010