Nick Clegg said exactly that on Andrew Marr yesterday. Balls should come up with his own ideas.
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I didn't ask whether it was a MARRIED couples allowance or a PARENTS allowance, I asked whether it was moral. You may think that irrelevant, as it happens I think it is relevant because Cameron presents that as being the point of it.Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
Yes I quoted someone else (though not from this morning). Is it like homework, where it doesn't count if I didn't think it up all by myself?Step outside posh boyComment
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"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Ah, it was Nick Clegg then.Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View Post
In answer to your original question. No, it's not moral, but neither does it have any bearing on whether a married couples allowance will increase morality in the UK.
You really should have recognised it as standard politician issue avoidance - raising a side issue to distract the (sheeplike) audience from what the substantive point is. Nick Clegg seized on the "moral" argument. Cameron should have stayed away from that, and simply used the "fairness" argument. I.e.
"It's not fair that a married couple with only one working partner pays more tax than an unmarried couple in the same situation".Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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You should apply for a job at the Daily Mail......Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostThat'll include all the lesbian & gay married couples. I am so looking forward to the Daily Mail headline about that!
"Straight tax to pay for queer goings on!"
or maybe better...
"Government announces tax relief for hand relief"
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Eh? could you just explain how being married makes you pay more tax?Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostComment
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I usually switch off when Nick Clegg turns up. He's an irrelevance when it comes to the election...Originally posted by VectraMan View PostNick Clegg said exactly that on Andrew Marr yesterday. Balls should come up with his own ideas.Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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If the wife (or husband - we're all modern here) is not working, you "lose" her (or his) personal allowance without a married couples allowance.Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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FTFY.Originally posted by ratewhore View Post"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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