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[webofevil]

How many prospective husbands did I ever meet, when I was the single mother of a baby, unable to work, stuck inside my flat, night after night, with barely enough money for life’s necessities? Should I have proposed to the youth who broke in through my kitchen window at 3am? Half a billion pounds, to send a message — would it not be more cost-effective, more personal, to send all the lower-income married people flowers?

Bloody hell. JK Rowling on the Tories’ plans to bung married couples 150 quid—fantastic.

Comments

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Cor, that's brilliant.

[strictlytrue.livejournal.com]

If she weren't already married, I would send her a proposal for writing this.

The first comment on the article is priceless, BTW. The absolute epitome of the futility of the have-your-say function.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Ooh, isn't she lovely?

[uitlander]

Very nicely put. I am particularly enjoying it having had someone try to suggest that I am a child hater that is willfully attempting to destroy our species by expressing my displeasure at the proposed bung for married couples.

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

My word, those words just about redeem her.

[ozgirlabroad.livejournal.com]

Just ace.