Mr Cameron's plans to tempt people down the aisle with tax breaks may be paternalistic, especially for somebody who claims not to want a bossy state, but they are less intrusive than forming a bond between individuals without their consent.But would the Tories' tax plans work?
When Charles Kennedy died in early June, for example, it was endlessly pointed out in the media that he had successfully shaped his party into a left-of-centre challenger to Labour, whose USPs were its scepticism about the direction of British foreign policy (witness its stance on the invasion of Iraq), and a very Liberal hostility to the intrusive, bossy state.
Sheryl Sandberg is leading a charge to ban the word bossy, stating: "When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a 'leader'leader
More thoughtful Labourites worry that dismissing localism leaves them stranded as the party of the bossy, big state.Ultimately, the Big Society, flaky as it sounds to some, represents an ambition to make the state do less, do it better and encourage Edmund Burke's "little platoons" to take on more responsibility.
Mr Cameron speaks of a "moral collapse", which, he adds, has been abetted by a "bossy bureaucratic state".
Mr Cameron said his "clear instruction" to EU leaders was to choose someone who understood that Europe must "respect nation states" and be "less bossy".
Three days after that, it played its third game in eight days without surrendering a point, winning, 6-0, over Airline High of Bossier City to take the Class AAAA state title for Louisiana's largest schools at the time.
"It is frustrating not to state my feelings, but people here call you bossy and get angry at you when you do," Miss Shima said.
"There's a lot of turnover because men come from out of state, coming into work in the plant here," said Debbra Bossier, who has lived in the park for 11 years.
Mr Cameron is strongly opposed to Mr Juncker's belief in a closer political union between EU member states and has described Brussels as "too big" and "too bossy".
Lesser job? "We need a flexible, open, competitive Europe that respects nation states and realises the process of becoming too big, too bossy, too interfering has gone too far and needs to be rolled back.
