Family Values Or Else

One of the country's main problems these days, as we all know, is an ongoing demographic crisis caused by an idle public's disinclination to breed sufficient numbers of new Britons. Andrea Leadsom even hinted once, during her glittering campaign for the top job, that Tumbledown Tessie's lack of reproductive capacity might limit her potential as a saviour of the nation. In this the gormless Leadsom may well have been correct for once: a teenager rebelling against a May upbringing would undoubtedly be strong, stable, responsible, considerate, decent, truthful, thoughtful and tolerant to a degree largely unheard-of outside American family entertainment. Meanwhile, the Government's policy on reproductive shirkers appears uncharacteristically joined-up: the childless are over-represented among LGBT people, carers and the disabled, all favourite targets for Conservative Party kickings and all likely to suffer in their declining years because of their failure to ensure the presence of an heir and a spare the way real people do.