Do you get the idea that the Conservative Party have yet to work out what they are doing? On the one hand they introduce an idea, cutting child benefit for higher tax payers, that isn’t designed to impact the poor. Yet they manage to manage to mess it up by making it means tested against single parents rather than a family household, giving Labour an easy target to attack.
And where did this idea come from? Not their manifesto, where there isn’t a sign of it, nor from their coalition partners, who seem to be quite surprised by it.
Then, they bring back their married couple tax break, universally disliked by all the other parties (the LibDems going so far as to specifically exempting themselves from having to vote for it in the coalition agreement), whilst also talking about completely overhauling the welfare system in the future.
Why not stop announcing all the ill thought out, half baked ideas now and wait to produce the complete new system when they’ve worked it out?
Is it because if they keep quiet it’ll start to look like all the good ideas from this government have been coming from the Liberal Democrat ?