Spot the difference

Emmet Sweeney

Mr Cameron is about to hand Labour its fourth consecutive term in office.

Watt Tyler

The Conservatives themselves coined the phrase Broken Britain. They must, then, recognise that there is only one kind of social unit that will fix society. This unit, the family, is Mother, Father, and children. The fact that they make equivalence between all types of "family" shows that they don't have the cahoonas to face down the Marxists - or that they are Marxists themselves.

Peter from Maidstone

Indeed, what is the difference? On this and a great many policies.

Natasha

Are you suggesting that households with single parents are not families? Weird. There is nothing objectionable about Cameron's statement, as far as I can see. Presumably you would prefer the Tories to antagonise single parent families and lose their votes?

Oflife

Pity Mrs T's son didn't turn out like her, he could have carried on the tradition of common sense values.

Daniel Lionsden

Even the BBC- on a report I saw this morning on Labour's complete failure to tackle teen pregnancies- admitted by comparison with Holland, the high levels here are due to family breakdown.
Now the 'conservatives' are to the left of even the BBC?

Oflife

As a general observation, fatherless youth are way more likely to get into trouble. Whilst the stereotypical strict female school teacher may be able to control her class, that is because she will often be considerable older than her pupils and can pull it off. Alas, the sham strict mother will be unable to instil such respect, no matter how hard she screams or how much vodka she downs whilst watching X Factor to deaden the stress of dystopian hopelessness.

Re the Conservatives, the bald guy was the best hope. Come back and run, your country needs you!

GaryO

I just cannot bring myself to like Mr Cameron and his bunch merry men. they will say anything to win votes.

The vitriol and accusations flung at Mr Brown from all directions is unbelievable. It is ugly and it makes me feel, not sorry, but sympathetic for him.

THX1138

According to Telegraph, Tory voting couples are less likely to be married than labour voting couples.

It's you bunch of dinosaurs that are totally out of touch with modern Britain.

Watt Tyler

THX80085

Because something is new, it doesn't mean that it is correct. It is better to be in touch with the absolute truth. You call me a dinosaur, I say you are flotsam and a pipsqueek.

john east

I consider myself a natural conservative, and until about six months ago I was looking forwards to a pleasant 2010 election night watching "my team" sweep the board.

Now, I wouldn't vote for Cameron's trendy liberals if they were the only party on the ballot paper.

At least you know where you are with Labour, bullying, thieving, control freaks, just like all socialists the world over, but to have the Tories slowly reveal themselves as no different has come as a bit of a shock to me.

Now I'll vote UKIP or BNP, and probably have a miserable election night watching the bullying, thieving, control freaks share the election spoils between them.

arnoldo

So John East is thinking of voting BNP.

John, what a relief it must be to find a political party free of bullying, thieving and control-freakery.

James Hodson

@ John East: You said "Now I'll vote UKIP or BNP..."

UKIP fine: BNP not fine.

Daniel Lionsden

Sadly I'm with John East on this. I hate Labour with a passion and was looking forward to seeing them out of office.
But what's the point? If the Tories get in, they'll only continue the same policies and be demonised via popular culture for it, which will make it even harder for a true conservative government to get in.

Molotov

"...we reject the false claim that helping lone parents undermines marriage."

I think that one's aimed at you, Mel.

Tom Durkin

Watt Tyler,

What on earth do Marxists have to do with this??

@ Arnando - very witty! (spectator needs a 'like' button as on cif...)

Daibhidh from Scotland

It's all about the continuing normalisation and equalising of every strand of lifestyle, a necessary process of the socially corrosive 'multicultural' experiment. Gingerbread is just one of the experiment's many willing movers. Meanwhile the Centre Policy Studies produced a report that echos what most of us know already - please note Natasha - that single mothers - not those who have been widowed or left high and dry by feckless males - choose to live on benefits. In other words, and in keeping with the normalisation and equalisaton process, it's a selfish lifestyle choice that leeches off the bent back of the weary taxpayer. In supporting the continuity of this parasitical burden, it is clear that Cameron has surrendered his ethics and become just another mover of the socially toxic 'multicultural' experiment. Shame on him.

Harold

As a single, childless man who has no intention to marry or father children who should I vote for at the next election?

I get sick to the back teeth of hearing about 'hard-working families'. How about hard-working singletons?

Neil Saunders

Whom should cheerfully childless "Harold" vote for at the next election?

That rather depends on whether he thinks the purpose of politics is to promote his own particular wellbeing as an (electively) individualistic social atom, or that of the wider society, including the now-beleaguered majority who do choose to form real (as distinct from politically-correct, pretend) families.