The Conservative Party

[Vic]

I am not considering the last handful of years when our society’s social fabric has barely changed, I am looking at divorce rates over the past few hundred years.

The rates were considerably lower when a considerable amount of people lived in worse poverty than anybody does today.

It’s a culture and legal change that has caused it.

So divorce has increased since the time when you needed an act of parliament to get divorced... How could the poor afford that?

I sometimes think you must be cultivating this persona (aka wumming).

 

[Didsbury Dave]

So divorce has increased since the time when you needed an act of parliament to get divorced... How could the poor afford that?

I sometimes think you must be cultivating this persona (aka wumming).

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[Ban-jani]

So divorce has increased since the time when you needed an act of parliament to get divorced... How could the poor afford that?

I sometimes think you must be cultivating this persona (aka wumming).

I’m going to ignore your last line, it’s a pathetic response when we were having a civil discussion.

That’s exactly why I said “legal”.

The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, which I think you must be referring to, wasn’t the turning point in divorce rates snowballing and a 100 years later, divorce was still very rare.

The biggest change was the sexual revolution and the 1969 act, from the Guardian:

The big change came in 1969, when the Divorce Reform Act was passed, allowing couples to divorce after they had been separated for two years (or five years if only one of them wanted a divorce). A marriage could be ended if it had irretrievably broken down, and neither partner no longer had to prove "fault".

So taking us back to the point on poverty, I don’t believe poverty causes divorce at all, I believe cultural changes during the 60s and 70s and the 1969 reform, are to blame in the main.

 

[Ban-jani]

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A young gammon is an oxymoron.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

A young gammon is an oxymoron.

And you were pulling people up for having no sense of humour.

Chill out mate. You need a break from here. You're raging at everyone ;-)

 

[Ban-jani]

And you were pulling people up for having no sense of humour.

Chill out mate. You need a break from here. You're raging at everyone ;-)

I was making a joke ha!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

A young gammon is an oxymoron.

Piglet?

 

[Ban-jani]

Piglet?

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Bleeding hell mate, there’s vegans on here!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Bleeding hell mate, there’s vegans on here!

It’s okay they can have a leaf of the herbs. They will probably be eating something like this soon anyway.

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[mat]

I imagine the vast majority of students wouldn’t even be interested anyway

I was only bothered about getting shitfaced and shagging.