{"id":1031,"date":"2010-04-10T20:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-04-12T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:21:29","slug":"1031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Married Couples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether the latest Tory tax break for married couples will attract other than their core voters is open to question. On the wider point I do think it is unfortunate, when there are such huge cuts causing a really noticeable diminution in public services and significant numbers of public sector job losses, waiting to be announced by whoever wins\u00a0 the election,\u00a0 campaigning is centered on these tiny sums. I suppose the Tories can be praised for getting a grip on their campaign and taking the initiative, but we really do need to start talking real.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile a point on this tax break for the marrieds. It is also available for civil partnerships. In fact civil partnerships can only be for same sex couples. I know more than one heterosexual couple who dislike marriage but would like to have a civil partnership, but cannot. I think if money is to be available, opposite sex couples will have to be allowed to enter into CP&#8217;s. If not I am fairly sure the tax break\u00a0will be discriminatory and against the law.\u00a0Times are very different now and laws are there to protect the rights of people to live\u00a0 equally without becoming victims of\u00a0discrimination. Even by the tax man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Married Couples Whether the latest Tory tax break for married couples will attract other than their core voters is open to question. On the wider point I do think it is unfortunate, when there are such huge cuts causing a really noticeable diminution in public services and significant numbers of public sector job losses, waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}