A bad policy

[jug]

a whopping great £20 a week. better than a kick in the teeth, but its all swings and roundabouts. a few losses here, a few savings there, i'd rather see real change, fiddling a few figures hardly makes a difference to life. its all about headlines and votes.

 

[T14086]

However, this morning brings good news. Married couples income is going to increase

Do bigamists get extra?

 

[custard]

i dont understand the logic of married couples getting that?

 

[jug]

i dont understand the logic of married couples getting that?

married couples are more likely to vote than single people, so a little £20 sweetener in the headlines could work out as a very cheap bribe. lots of little bribes win elections. the key is to bend over people who dont vote and reward those who do.

 

[custard]

and the couples living together dont vote?

 

[jug]

and the couples living together dont vote?

i assume the evil spies want to know what relationship everyone is to each other when you register on the electoral role (i wouldnt know, not been on it ) so it would be possible to calcualte the percetange of couples who vote. assuming they could, and they havent offered the £20 to couples, it suggests couples dont vote as much as married couples. alternatively it could also mean this would be easily taken advantage of because you cant prove you're a couple in the same way a married couple can produce a wedding cert, so in theory if they did give this £20 to couples everyone in the country would suddenly be "living with a partner as if they are married". last thing we need is yet more easily abused hand outs.