So. CaMoron, it seems, has decided to go with the family. How lovely! Great idea: a good family is the basis for a good society. Wonderful, Mr CaMoron will solve all our ills by ensuring we all have good upbringings in good families.

Oh come on! Just how retarded can you get? Yes, we would all like to live in the good stable environs of a middle class family, but many families aren’t like that people aren’t like that. The family, if you look at the sociological research, can be destructive, brutal, leaving women and children open to abuse. The traditional view of the family is sexist – women are supposed to be housewives, men the breadwinners. Moreover, times have changed since the 1890s – many people don’t want to be held down by family units; it makes society more fkexible annd dynamic. Thus, for all his display of ‘forward thinking’, CaMoron has once again showed himself for be an outdated anachronism. Compassionate conservatism – what bullshit?