Everyone's a winner with Dave Cameron

From a delightfully garbled article in The Soaraway Sun:

DAVID Cameron yesterday denied he was out to clobber single mums by offering tax breaks to married couples. The Tory leader was heckled as he outlined his plans to supporters of lone parents' charity Gingerbread.

Angry mums accused him of discriminating against 4.5million kids. Mr Cameron vowed that a future Tory government would never ignore problems faced by single parents. But he insisted his party was not "neutral" on the issue and wants to encourage marriage by loading the tax system in favour of couples.

So with typical Nulabour gusto, he's going to "do more" for married couples and "do more" for single parents at the same time. Hooray! The irony in all this is that:

1. Even the Tories suggested tax-break will amount to about ten pounds a week, once you do the maths, nowhere near enough to combat the £200-per-week couple penalty embedded in the tax/benefits system. See e.g. Shannon Matthew's mum's former partner's sister's benefit fraud.

2. The real villains of the piece are single-mothers-on-welfare, and not single mothers in work, but as they don't pay income tax, they won't be affected by changes to the tax system; the largest single group who'd lose out will be single, working adults who don't have children, and cohabiting couples will lose twice as much.

But the best bit is this, perhaps somebody can explain it to me:

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has branded his idea a "philanderer's charter", allowing men who walk out on their wives to benefit from pro-marriage tax reforms.

PS, Gingerbread is a fakecharity, of course.