Good News, but should be better
A relief but not by a margin large enough to leave me comfortable.
Once again Ian Duncan Smith establishes himself as a useless imbecile by declaring that his proposal is
“It’s just pure common sense.”
A standard line used by the Tories when lacking in evidence. All of the studies {y’know, with empirical evidence and the stuff conservatives traditionally used to rely on back in the day?} have shown none of the “Need” proclaimed by this shoddy example of a Conservative and this rather leaves me with the impression that the entire thing was nonsense on stilts, an unsubstantiated proposal reliant upon pure prejudice to sustain it. That it was not thrashed more thoroughly is something I consider to be a consequence of the ascendancy of idiocy and something we must recall will increase along with the rise of the right.
Best quote comes from Tory MP Patrick Cormack, who says:
We should not, out of a misguided concept of equality or fairness, pretend that there is an automatic right for anyone to have a child, regardless of sex.
Whether it is the male or female sex he considers to be lacking this automatic right is not made clear.
