Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP tells rightwing conference

A Conservative MP has claimed the UK’s low birthrate is the most pressing policy issue of the generation and is caused in part by “cultural Marxism”

They're getting ready to go full forced-birther white supremacist here, aren't they https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP tells rightwing conference

‘Cultural Marxism’ and excessive education among factors causing existential threat, says Miriam Cates

The Guardian

@cstross I am again and again flabbergasted about how similar, even with all the differences, Poland and UK are in scope of the politics. Regardless of the overall wealth of the country and the nation, right wing conservatives are right wing conservatives. And they use the same concepts, the same rhetoric, the same means of manipulation to convince people to follow their backward ways.

I've seen it in Poland. Before 2015 I wasn't so interested in the British internal affairs, but then I had moved to UK. And I've seen the same there. It seems like they are using the same shitty guide book for ruling.

@agturcz it's like there's a covert international network of nazis executing a global conspiracy—

Remember, with the Right, it's always projection. So when they prattle on constantly about international socialist conspiracies … it's a confession. THEY are the conspiracy. It's a conspiracy against modernity and human rights and the idea that ancestry should not dictate outcomes. And you are their target.

@cstross @agturcz that projection comment is so on the money it’s a great insight into what they’re doing every time they accuse everybody else of doing something (curbing rights, stealing elections, ending democracy)