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Reform wants women barefoot and pregnant

829 replies

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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RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:43

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 14/02/2026 10:38

What about the looming climate crisis? We need to be working towards degrowth.

Degrowth is antihuman and will only lead to mass poverty and death. It will lead to a graveyard for humanity.

I believe we should embrace abundance and prosperity, instead.

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:46

Livelovebehappy · 14/02/2026 10:43

Give over. A candidate gives his opinion. It doesn’t represent the policies and manifesto of the Reform party. Just a personal opinion. If we’re going down that road fgs, there’s many in the Labour Party who hold controversial views which don’t align with the Labour party’s published manifesto. That’s why Starmer can’t get many of his proposals through the party vote. Same with most parties.

If a candidate talks shite and contradicts the party's stance, they usually don't last long in any party. But something tells me he won't get reprimanded because that IS the agenda.

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:46

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:43

Degrowth is antihuman and will only lead to mass poverty and death. It will lead to a graveyard for humanity.

I believe we should embrace abundance and prosperity, instead.

Not if my DDs are forced to breed when they don't want to.

Livelovebehappy · 14/02/2026 10:46

FourCheese · 14/02/2026 10:41

I don’t understand how we’re supposed to accommodate all the the new babies and migrants we’ve brought into solve this population crisis. Do we just keep up the pyramid scheme?

The reality is that whilst most inhabitants in the UK are having less children than they did a couple of decades ago, immigrants continue to have more children, due in part to not supporting contraception, and also cultural preferences, hence the increasing population figures.

rainingsnoring · 14/02/2026 10:46

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:43

Degrowth is antihuman and will only lead to mass poverty and death. It will lead to a graveyard for humanity.

I believe we should embrace abundance and prosperity, instead.

What abundance and prosperity? You do know that we all live on a finite planet right?

Elizabethandfour · 14/02/2026 10:47

I agree with him that women should have children earlier, I wish I had. Couples can’t afford children these days so the average age of motherhood is increasing. I think women should be given tax breaks to have children to halt the collapsing birth rates.

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:47

Rainbunny · 14/02/2026 10:42

It's clear to me that this decade is going to be the decade of "backlash" against women and our rights. Messages like Reform's are happening across the developed world. In the USA Vice President JD Vance said a few years ago that childless couples should not have the right to vote. In South Korea male politicians are extremely hateful towards women for not having children and are publicly making it their political platform to get women out of the workplace.

I fear for the equality of women in the near future. In the USA there are christian groups arguing for school lessons encouraging female students to marry quickly after high school and have babies because they can go to college later (meaning never...), they also argue against women going to college at all now.

It wasn't a coincidence that Trump's Education Department suddenly downgraded the professional status of nursing degrees last year, leading to a reduced cap on student aid and government loans to study nursing. The vast majority of nurses in the USA are women and it's long been recognised as a pathway to female financial independence as nurses can make decent money (some of my friends are earning 6 figures.)

Then there was the SAVE Act that just passed, now women who took their husband's names at marriage have to provide a government federal ID document that matches their married name so birth certificates are no longer valid, if they don't have a passport (less than 50% of Americans do), they have to scramble together a bunch of documents to prove their identity. The Act doesn't make it clear that a wedding certificate suffices to prove change of name, a curious oversight or not perhaps...

The EEOC (Equal Employment and Oppourtunits Commission) has been gutted by Trump so women have an even harder time reporting workplace discrimination. Then we have abortion.... we know what's happening there and now attacks against contraception. To cap it all off, a growing movement to end no-fault divorce.

In the mindset of right-wing religious types, women's equality is a disaster and is the cause of "white genocide." And now they're in power in the USA (and in the Supreme Court). It's going to get rougher for women.

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Married white women vote majority Republican in America. A marriage certificate, as an official government document, is enough to prove your identity. Honestly where do you get this shit

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:48

rainingsnoring · 14/02/2026 10:46

What abundance and prosperity? You do know that we all live on a finite planet right?

What’s finite about it? Peak oil is a myth; we’ve been incredibly productive on fewer and fewer acres of farmland. At this point, the danger is too few humans instead of too many. You just have an ideological commitment to the former.

FourCheese · 14/02/2026 10:49

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:43

Degrowth is antihuman and will only lead to mass poverty and death. It will lead to a graveyard for humanity.

I believe we should embrace abundance and prosperity, instead.

Wait, why do you think it will lead to death? What you describe is not my understanding of degrowth at all. It’s about haven fewer people and transitioning economies to support that. Having loads of children born into poverty worldwide is what causing suffering and death. Far from prosperity.

Livelovebehappy · 14/02/2026 10:49

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:46

If a candidate talks shite and contradicts the party's stance, they usually don't last long in any party. But something tells me he won't get reprimanded because that IS the agenda.

Well we kind of don’t know that yet do we? So it’s all whataboutery. Maybe he will leave the party. Maybe he won’t 🤷‍♀️ And tbh, there’s clearly many in Labour who don’t actually toe the party line, and who hold unpalatable opinions. Hence why Starmer is pretty toothless.

Keepingthingsinteresting · 14/02/2026 10:49

WelshRabBite · 14/02/2026 08:22

Reform want conflicting things.

They hate “benefit scroungers” and yet want women to have DC in their 20s, which statistically means they’re more likely to need/receive benefits.

They want women to breed young (like cattle), so they can then berate her for taking money from the state to help raise that child, knowing she didn’t have the time to build her career to a level that would support a child.

Also, divorce rates lower the older you get, so essentially you’ll end up with a lot of young single mums, which is another sector Reform voters hate.

They want women to breed young but be hated for it.

It makes sense once you realise they just hate women, they are frightened of our independence as they genuinely believe we are second class and should be treated as such so they seek to engineer a system that is (even more than now) suppressive to women’s hopes, dreams and independence . Literally barefoot, pregnant and impecunious so we cannot escape.

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:49

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:46

Not if my DDs are forced to breed when they don't want to.

Who’s forcing them? If you don’t want to contribute to the next generation, then you can pay more taxes instead.

ThankYouNigel · 14/02/2026 10:49

Finally someone speaking up for women who prioritise motherhood over careers and a very refreshing change from governments pushing separating mothers and young babies by pedalling the outright myth that nursery care is best for babies, when in fact it is highly damaging to their inherent attachment needs to their mothers. Well said! 👏🏻🙌🏻🥂

Allisnotlost1 · 14/02/2026 10:50

Dragonfruitini · 14/02/2026 09:12

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.

Presumably you’re not advocating that more people have babies at 16 when they are homeless though? Yours is a success story but a statistically rare one.

rainingsnoring · 14/02/2026 10:50

Livelovebehappy · 14/02/2026 10:46

The reality is that whilst most inhabitants in the UK are having less children than they did a couple of decades ago, immigrants continue to have more children, due in part to not supporting contraception, and also cultural preferences, hence the increasing population figures.

I think lots of people understand this. The question is what to do? The 'solution' to economic deterioration and women having less DC has been to import people from other countries. Reform clearly don't want to do this so their 'solution' is to try to pile pressure on 'young girls' to have children earlier and more of them! I'm sure it's a total coincidence that he forgot to mention 'young boys' in his comments.

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:50

Married white women vote majority Republican in America. A marriage certificate, as an official government document, is enough to prove your identity. Honestly where do you get this shit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2025/04/09/how-the-save-act-could-impact-married-women-and-other-voters/
THIS IS THE ISSUE:
Marriage certificates aren’t listed in the bill as an accepted form of additional documentation.

ThankYouNigel · 14/02/2026 10:50

Elizabethandfour · 14/02/2026 10:47

I agree with him that women should have children earlier, I wish I had. Couples can’t afford children these days so the average age of motherhood is increasing. I think women should be given tax breaks to have children to halt the collapsing birth rates.

Couldn’t agree more. Many are being priced out of having children who would actually love to, and that needs sorting.

Irkeddancer · 14/02/2026 10:51

genesis92 · 14/02/2026 10:20

What’s your plan for the declining birth rate OP? Are you childless? If so who are you expecting to pay your pension and social care when you get old?

Its amazing how you’ve re-worded “tax breaks for parents” to be as divisive at possible.

Childless or childree people are paying taxes towards your children's education and other needs, why you think it's somehow ridiculous that those children's taxes would pay towards elder generations pensions whether they had children themselves is weird.

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 14/02/2026 10:51

ThankYouNigel · 14/02/2026 10:49

Finally someone speaking up for women who prioritise motherhood over careers and a very refreshing change from governments pushing separating mothers and young babies by pedalling the outright myth that nursery care is best for babies, when in fact it is highly damaging to their inherent attachment needs to their mothers. Well said! 👏🏻🙌🏻🥂

You’re deluded if you think they’re speaking up for women.

And your position on childcare is bollocks btw

Allisnotlost1 · 14/02/2026 10:52

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:49

Who’s forcing them? If you don’t want to contribute to the next generation, then you can pay more taxes instead.

I’m curious what you think happens to the taxes paid by childless people now? They contribute to the next generation, of course. Childless women in particular are more often net contributors than mothers, who feel time out of the workforce and are more likely to work part-time. So actually everyone is already contributing to the next generation, and the economy would be in an even worse state if more women dropped out of it to have (more) kids.

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:52

Livelovebehappy · 14/02/2026 10:49

Well we kind of don’t know that yet do we? So it’s all whataboutery. Maybe he will leave the party. Maybe he won’t 🤷‍♀️ And tbh, there’s clearly many in Labour who don’t actually toe the party line, and who hold unpalatable opinions. Hence why Starmer is pretty toothless.

Has he been told off by the party's senior leaders? No. Why is Nige not making noise to that effect? Because he is voicing what the party wants. Simple. If you don't want a Christian nationalist patriarchy in power, do not vote Reform.

weewillywink · 14/02/2026 10:53

Snowyowl99 · 14/02/2026 10:28

Lovely to have that time with your mum. My mum had me older and I was envious of my friends with younger mums. They all have their mothers still and these mums are active grandmother's. Mine has sadly passed and I miss her . Life has no guarantees but this has spurred me to have my children earlier. Enjoy your time with your lovely mum xx

It never made a difference to me as a child as she always seemed the same as other parents and all adults were old to me. Definitely makes a difference now I’m in my 40s. She doesn’t live nearby but I know she’ll be here in an emergency. Like you say you never know what the future holds though!

rainingsnoring · 14/02/2026 10:53

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:48

What’s finite about it? Peak oil is a myth; we’ve been incredibly productive on fewer and fewer acres of farmland. At this point, the danger is too few humans instead of too many. You just have an ideological commitment to the former.

You don't understand that Earth is a finite planet?! Where do you suppose all the fossil fuel comes from? You think it is still being created? 😂
The reason we have become 'more productive' in terms of food production is due to modern farming techniques which also involves the use of...fossil fuels.
You have no idea what my ideological commitments may me. What I do favour is facts. Peak oil is certainly not a myth.

ThankYouNigel · 14/02/2026 10:53

HighLadyofTheNightCourt · 14/02/2026 10:51

You’re deluded if you think they’re speaking up for women.

And your position on childcare is bollocks btw

I’m speaking up for women who are priced out of having children, having to wait too long because of that, or who are unable to have as many as they’d like.

Where I live, lovely couples who both work are living in cramped housing where their only child who is 5 still has to share a room with mum and dad. That is wrong, they are doing the right things. They should be able to afford a bigger house and more children, which they’d love to.

There has been too great an emphasis on individualism and not enough on family for far, far too long. I’m excited for change!

RingoJuice · 14/02/2026 10:53

StandFirm · 14/02/2026 10:50

Married white women vote majority Republican in America. A marriage certificate, as an official government document, is enough to prove your identity. Honestly where do you get this shit

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2025/04/09/how-the-save-act-could-impact-married-women-and-other-voters/
THIS IS THE ISSUE:
Marriage certificates aren’t listed in the bill as an accepted form of additional documentation.

Edited

I think you are confused.

It is not accepted as proof of citizenship. It is a supporting document of your identity and name change. That’s the distinction.

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