Sans familles, sans enfants, une société suicidaire

The language used by Zahawi captures a swelling theme of the election – dividing the "taxpayer" from the "benefit taker" – with this: "Many couples take the decision to delay having a third or fourth child until they are sure they can afford it." The comments that followed were heavily anti-child: "If you can't afford kids why expect the state to keep them?" and "It's a parent's responsibility to provide, not the government". There lies the great dividing line: why should the state support children at all?

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So if cleaners, carers, teaching assistants, security guards and shop assistants had to wait until they knew beyond doubt they could keep a child for 18 years without state help, the half of the population now drawing credits would be childless – many more if you include every parent ever down on their luck from divorce, illness or job loss. But then there was always a eugenic undercurrent in Tory thinking: stop the lower classes breeding.

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