Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Sorry, I know we're supposed to be back on Homeland but I really need to say this.

David Cameron is just wrong to incentivise commitment to the family unit by financial carrot dangling. Suggesting the way to strong relationship is through pound signs in the eyes is so, so misleading. Building family like that–both locally and nationally–will only breed a culture of bloodhounds, and the social problems we currently face will only become more severe because young people will grow up believing avarice is the only way forward. Advocating family because of the money it earns you is a rotten seed to cultivate.

And no, Mr. Cameron, Britain will not win, as you claim. It will lose, very slowly and irreversibly, as the effects of these ideas stream down from generation to generation.

I know the 'family' buzzword is not new in party conference world, and I know they're all as bad as each other. But it makes me sad that yet again, here are supposedly fresh ideas promising change, but actually there is absolutely nothing radical about them, and were we to say 'yes' to this we would just rub more salt in our existing cultural wounds.

I know it's boring being skint, and that having cash really helps, but money does not make the world go round. Only love can do that, ultimately.


{Today's soundtrack: Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise}