According to the Conservative Party website the Conservative Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: A strong and stable family provides children with the security and affection they need. By supporting the family, we can increase opportunity and ensure everyone has the best possible start in […]
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This is for the promotion of marriage and the family unit.
Broken Britain was a term first used by William Hague to describe the breakdown of the traditional family unit and the rise of single parent households and loss of respect and discipline.
The married man’s tax allowance was abolished by Labour and a more generous benefit system made it easier for married couples to part (instead of working at their marriage) and single parent households to spawn.
“Money worries can put a huge strain on relationships – so we will end the couple penalty in the benefits system and recognise marriage in the tax and benefits system”
I think it is also aimed to help those couples where the wife stays at home to look after children and forgoes her own tax allowance. I suppose if more women stayed at home (if they could afford to) then that could perhaps free up some jobs for the unemployed!
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I agree that promoting families in britain is the way forward but I think that any married tax relief should be able to be claimed by either partner as many women now have higher paid positions making it more financially feasible for the man to stay at home rather than the women, after all this party is trying to promote equality between men and women.
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To be honest i think that the policies of teh conservitives are rubbish, how do you expect people of the working class to live !! when immagrents are takihng our jobs and homes they are living like royalty as we are living like pesents!!.
I am 62 years Old my pension is worth