A serious commitment to marriage or a triviality?

[Zeuhl]

Does tax relief of £150 a year for an estimated four million married couples represent a serious commitment to the institution of marriage or is it a meaningless triviality?

[DrFilth]

it is great if you like wedding cake

[askyourgran]

That's all it would pay for if it's a small cake without the bride and groom on top.

[lotsafun]

WOW not a whole £150, just think what you can do with that eh?????????

[Zeuhl]

Yeah I like wedding cake.

Though the last wedding i went to, the cake alone cost more than £150!!!

[Zeuhl]

6 take-aways?
or
3 fill-ups at the petrol station?
or
an annual trip to the theatre?

[DrFilth]

if you get married a few times it all adds up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8446723.stm

[trt]

I bought my daughters wedding cake and it cost £200, silly I know but it made her happy.

[jno]

undoubtedly a factor for this woman

http://www.telegraph....ould-marry-again.html

But to anyone else it might seem like a bribe.

[Mr Veritas]

Do they think £3.00 a week will say anyone?

[Oneeyedvic]

weird isn't it - every opinion so far has intimated that this is a trivial am mount and not really worth anything.

Now say, we are going to tax people £3 a week for something (£156 per year) and there will be uproar - just look at what happened with the 50p broadband tax.

Nowt as weird as folk

[Quizmonster]

It's barely enough to buy a pint a week...so, as for being any sort of "serious commitment" to anything at all, forget it!

[modeller]

This £150 is to be added to the personal allowance therefore it is taxable, which makes it worth in real terms £120. The old abolished marriage allowance was worth about £600.

[R1Geezer]

This is not relevant econonomically, it is a social statement by the tories recognising the significance of marraige. The other parties hate marraige and this is one of the few areas where there is a clear diference in the main parties.

[Everhelpful]

Meaningless triviality.!!

[Zeuhl]

///The other parties hate marraige (sic) ///

and your evidence and rationale for this ludicrously sweeping statement is what exactly?

[R1Geezer]

30 years of liberal thinking, don't tell me you haven't noticed!

[caslass]

My husband and I lived together before we married. When he asked me to marry him i said no. Bad experience in the past is why I said no. He said he wanted commitment, if I wasn't prepared for it there was no point in going on. We have now been married for 30 years. It takes more than £3 a week to get you to walk up the aisle.

[Oneeyedvic]

R1 - ///30 years of liberal thinking/// - calling Thatcher a liberal? Blimey, wouldn't want to see a right wing government in!

[woofgang]

well yes but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick which seems to be all the others are offering