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
As Ceucescu demonstrated in Romania, a forced birth program just produces children that people can't afford & they end up neglected in orphanages.
It does nothing to treat the underlying causes of why people don't have children.
Housing precarity. Employment insecurity. Inadequate social safety net. Systemic misogyny. The Pink Tax. Lack of affordable child care. Student loan debt. High mortgages.
Women already have a 30% wage discount, having children makes that worse.
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It means too many women retire impoverished.
It costs $330,000 USD to raise a child through college.
Moreover, the concern about the birth rate is really a cover for voter suppression for women.
Most conservative political strategists believe young children take women out of the electoral process for several years. Women with young children vote less
It's the familar "politics of exhaustion" used against POC working 2 jobs to pay the rent because of wage suppression tactics like racism
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