Reform wants women barefoot and pregnant

[Sweetiedarling7]

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.

Really? Taxes on single people? Wow. Heard it all now.

I was knackered after my third at 36 but do you think it was having three kid close together that wrecked my body.

Yep! And once again incredibly discriminatory and degrading.

Wasn’t easy at first lived in a homeless shelter place for two years, have a normal life now dc doesn’t remember where he lived when he was younger than 2.

Sounds like they're just throwing any old mad shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Mainly it's about the boats. The sodding boats because they've fallen for the lie that all the problems in the UK are people coming in boats.

And.. yeah, the rest! I guess it's a special type of person who likes reform.

I had my children in my twenties and wish I would have waited until I was financially secure and a bit more life experience behind me.

The point is people should be free to make their own choices and not be pressured by others.

Who he?
Do they know?
He will be rejected.
Watch this space.

What do we expect? Didn't Farage once say Andrew Tate was an important voice for young men or something along those lines?

Womens reproductive choices are already controlled. Most women have fewer children than they'd like

@Dragonfruitini I assume you are not advocating that start in life for DC.

I didn’t meet DH until 30s. It wasn’t financial reasons I didn’t have DC earlier

Single people already pay the same tax as everyone else and they have less money! That is not 'fair enough'.

And if reform get in and do away with the NHS, you can imagine how many thousands it would cost to actually give birth..

I had 15 years off to get both kids to secondary - not rich but the best time of my life and it was OH who suggested it.

The only women I know who delayed trying to start a family until their mid or late 30s were women who didn’t meet their life partner until that stage in life. Everyone else started their families within the first few years of being married or cohabiting, usually in their late 20s or early 30s. So unless they are going to create a state sponsored dating agency…..

So he said something in a 2024 YouTube clip connected to his research on the right wing movement. Parents with 2 children should pay less in income tax (not taxing the childfree) to help restore the low birth rate which is kind of a big deal in Britain.

I don’t like the guy. But the hyperbole and gullibility about anything right wing is just as bad as the extreme left. I wish the middle thinkers would have their own party.

I wish someone had told me to consider having my kids earlier in life. I was with my husband from the age of 19 and didn't have my first child until 32. I definitely would have loved to have had more but just felt too old to have a 4th at 40ish. And I was young in my peer group to become a mum! We seem to have been indoctrinated to think we need to have life sorted before we have children. Have accomplished things professionally, have traveled, have a comfortable lifestyle etc, have had the big wedding. I wish id just gone for it in mid 20s tbh. We'd have figured it out. I cant imagine how it must feel if I'd struggled to conceive and id left it. I welcome another narrative being put to the next generation.

I wish someone had told me to consider having my kids earlier in life. I was with my husband from the age of 19 and didn't have my first child until 32. I definitely would have loved to have had more but just felt too old to have a 4th at 40ish. And I was young in my peer group to become a mum! We seem to have been indoctrinated to think we need to have life sorted before we have children. Have accomplished things professionally, have traveled, have a comfortable lifestyle etc, have had the big wedding. I wish id just gone for it in mid 20s tbh. We'd have figured it out. I cant imagine how it must feel if I'd struggled to conceive and id left it. I welcome another narrative being put to the next generation.

This is fucked up and scary. Can you send the source of this?

But if they are saying there is too much immigration why then encourage people to have more children, isn’t the net effect the same, more people to pay taxes to fund the pensions (only if you let immigrants work).

But isn’t having more children just kicking the can down the road as these children will grow old and so there will be even more elderly people

And isn’t there also a question of resources. More children will mean needing more houses when they grow up, so reducing even more green belt, greater strain on NHS etc, more food etc. Reform keep saying there isn’t enough room for all the immigrants, the country can only have so many people, so where are all these extra children (when they are adults) going to go and where will all their children go?

Reform, the country is full, at breaking point, stop immigration

Reform, birth rate is too low, we need more babies

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Do we assume your source is this:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/reform-matt-goodwin-fertility-comments-outcry-handmaids-tale

In which case, did you and the journalist and everyone else who is frothing at the mouth about it this miss this? -

"Many women in Britain are having children much too late in life and they would prefer to have children much earlier on."

He's not proposing to "tax childless families more." He is proposing big tax breaks for women who have children. I see repeated calls on this forum for higher benefits for families to cover the costs of having children.

Those are the same thing.

For those saying he wants women to halt their careers and give up work, you might like to notice that you cannot obtain a tax break if you aren't working and paying tax!

We have the situation where deaths and serious problem in childbirth are rising in this country for the first time in spite of medical advances. One of the reasons for that is that women are giving birth older.

What exactly is wrong with pointing out things like that and proposing to enable women financially to choose to have a family earlier if they want to?

I hate reform, but don’t know about this. How are they planning on punishing women for not having children, what’s been said by who?

I mean…. If you want to get technical about it, I suspect most childfree women already pay more tax - I certainly wouldn’t work full time and at the level I do if I’d chosen to have children. Plus I live on my own so pay more council tax etc. I’d rather live on a pittance than have children though - it’s not the right path for me so no amount of tax will convince me.

They really are the most vile misogynists / racists/ insert other ism here!

This involves the taxpayer supporting these people with their two years off though. Supposing they have 4 children. Should they have 8 years off in prime earning years? All supported by the taxpayer? Is the taxpayer not burdened enough with the ever rising cost of welfare?