[Gayle]

I think it's a daft idea.

Just one point though - I think it's £120 not £200 as was reported earlier.

Any mother who is eating healthily will do so with or without that money. Anyone else will see it as a windfall and buy more fags and booze. I do not believe that it will make one jot of difference apart from the fact that the government will spend our well earned money on it and not on the things that really matter.

I thought Gordon Brown was sensible, this seems to be ridiculous.