ewx | Iain Dunkin' Donuts returns to the fray

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Her bum! Wait, wrong joke.

Are you sure? "Does my bum look big in this"...

But I think getting my husband to marry you would annoy both my parents and the Tories even more :-)

I think I'd need more than 20 pounds a week to marry anyone for a tax break.

It's not clear whether it's L20/week each or for the couple. They say it'd cost £3.2 billion/year, but even if it's per couple then the 10.3 million married couples in England and Wales reported here (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1090) would imply about £10 billion/year.

So unless marriage has collapsed over the last few years (and I know it's not doing well, but even so) I think the figures quoted are rubbish and the actual size of the tax break in reality might well turn out lower so that they could actually afford it.

Ah, it's about the government! I assumed it was the most shy proposal ever :)

I thought the hyperlink was a clue. Who did you think I was proposing to?

Oh, well, I didn't really bother paying any attention :)

Who did you think I was proposing to?

I had no idea. If I knew, it wouldn't be so subtle, would it? :)

Now, see, this is where I'd impose a partial ordering over the set of people who expressed interest in marrying you, and then see if anybody comes out as an obvious choice for a proposal...

It's clear that the £20 tax break is intended for couples where only one is going out to work—the reporting then confusingly says "if applied to all married couples".