This is probably the "high" point as far as Reform candidates are concerned, and if the press actually cares there is going to be plenty of material to trip them up:
This is probably the "high" point as far as Reform candidates are concerned, and if the press actually cares there is going to be plenty of material to trip them up:
Miriam Cates said basically the exact same thing and the press didn't care all that much.
I commented on this elsebook - you can't keep right wingers happy. One day they're moaning about people claiming benefits for having children they "can't afford to keep", free school meals, breakfast clubs, you know, anything to stop kids being hungry, then now they're accusing people of causing the downfall of Western civilisation by - erm - not having kids until they're financially secure.
There's also a combination of racism, eugenics and misogyny at work. One thing modern social security did was make it more possible for women to leave or avoid abusive relationships by giving them and their children alternative means of subsistence. Modern education also affects women's ability to live and choose independently. So it makes sense that a reactionary pro-patriarchy movement would attack both.
Similarly eugenicists who see people in poverty as inferior to them or more likely to be from
(hidden texting description of racist ideology)
what they see as 'inferior races' don't want them to 'breed' - they want what they see as the 'right' people to 'breed' - they want white women dependent financially on men and under the thumbs of those men to have lots of babies for the empire and the health of the white race as they used to put it in its hey-day in the later 19th/ early 20th century
Remember Farage is very highly influenced by the original full-strength 1930s/40s version of that (not using the four letter term for it in case of legal issues) and his international allies are similar.
In depth discussion of that would belong in Epiphanies but it's worth mentioning in passing here.
So I keep seeing the title of this and avoiding reading it or commenting. But the simple answer from me is that any party who is as morally bankrupt as they are, as ideologically driven as they are, and with failures and grifters in charge - yes they are a threat.
Whatever their policies, the disintegration of ethical standards in politics is a threat.
The fact that their politics are vile, and that they are popular with people who are (reasonably) dissatisfied with the current political cesspit is just adding to their unpleaseantness
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As I said 'if' - obviously a large portion of them are fully on board with moving politics further to the right.
I commented on this elsebook - you can't keep right wingers happy. One day they're moaning about people claiming benefits for having children they "can't afford to keep", free school meals, breakfast clubs, you know, anything to stop kids being hungry, then now they're accusing people of causing the downfall of Western civilisation by - erm - not having kids until they're financially secure.
Similarly eugenicists who see people in poverty as inferior to them or more likely to be from
(hidden texting description of racist ideology)
Remember Farage is very highly influenced by the original full-strength 1930s/40s version of that (not using the four letter term for it in case of legal issues) and his international allies are similar.
In depth discussion of that would belong in Epiphanies but it's worth mentioning in passing here.
Whatever their policies, the disintegration of ethical standards in politics is a threat.
The fact that their politics are vile, and that they are popular with people who are (reasonably) dissatisfied with the current political cesspit is just adding to their unpleaseantness