Aug 5, 2013
Family values suffer from the Not-the-Conservative-Party
Posted by Melanie Phillips
With truly eye-watering illiberalism, the Government is once again trying to hammer family life into a shape that millions of us would reject.
It is expected to announce today that it will introduce an on-line voucher system that will subsidise up to one-fifth of childcare costs.
By one of those remarkable coincidences that brings a smile to a minister’s face, the day this happy news was judiciously leaked also brought a report that more than two million women are their family’s main bread-winner, equivalent to one in three of those who work.
With the cost of childcare going up and up, some might therefore hail the announcement of the voucher as an inspiring example of how ministerial hearts beat as one with the interests of the nation.
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