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Reform wants women barefoot and pregnant

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Sweetiedarling7 · 14/02/2026 07:57

Reform candidate Matt Goodwin wants women to have children early in life and introduce extra taxes as punishment for anyone who chooses not to have children.

Misogyny in plain sight.

How long till they ban abortion too?

Women voting Reform may want to consider if they are turkeys voting for christmas.

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RainbowBagels · 23/02/2026 13:40

GaIadriel · 23/02/2026 01:23

Our current low birth rate is not sustainable.

Neither sadly are natural resources/the planet. Although obv we all want our parents to be well cared for and ourselves too when we reach that age.

But looking at the population increase over the last 100 years is insane. Check out the graph below.

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Global birthrate has been dropping since the 1970's. The increase is due almost entirely to people living longer.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/wld/world/birth-rate

World Birth Rate (1950-2025)

Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of p...

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/wld/world/birth-rate

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 23/02/2026 22:12

When I was a child a long time ago I constantly heard that people were poor because they had too many children and all the poor had to do was have less children and they would not be poor.

It was a lie.

The reality is that capitalism needs poor people - lots of them - to do the menial low paid jobs that the middle classes would never do.

The birth rate has gone down since then and immigration has gone up to bridge the gap. There are still as many poor people.

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 23/02/2026 22:36

Imdunfer · 16/02/2026 08:18

Most of the contributors to the latter stage of this discussion write as if they are completely unaware of the millions of adults who will willingly come here to make good any population decrease caused by women choosing not to have children.

The only good reason to have children is if you want them.

The only reason to encourage women already here to have more children if they don't have a strong desire to have them, but are essentially bribed to have them, is to protect the current cultural mix, which is very strongly Nationalist if not outright racist.

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Many people chose not to have more than 1 child because they can't afford two.

Imdunfer · 24/02/2026 07:14

MusicWasMyFirstLove · 23/02/2026 22:36

Many people chose not to have more than 1 child because they can't afford two.

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True but not relevant to my post you quoted?

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