Superb riposte to the ideological Left. Sadly facts and actual arguments will not change their minds. However they may change the minds of the great majority of voters who will listen to the arguments and make up their own minds about it. Well done Matt, keep up the good work.
people inventing things Nigel Farage has supposedly said- it is relentless and I am so sorry these ' feminists ' have targetted you Matt .They are absolutely pathetic !
Telling lies is the only way they can operate .Sadly and very annoyingly some people believe them .
For today's Left, victimhood isn't just a grievance – it's a political strategy. If they can't win an argument with facts, they'll simply invent one instead. Opponents are smeared, motives rewritten and perfectly reasonable debate is recast as oppression.
Take the latest row over Britain's collapsing birth rate. A proposal to discuss ways of supporting families somehow morphed into the absurd claim that childless women should be punished with higher taxes. It wasn't said, but that hardly mattered. Outrage travels faster than the truth, especially when amplified by the usual social media activists and self-appointed moral guardians.
This is modern progressive politics in a nutshell. Feelings trump facts, slogans replace evidence, and anyone daring to question fashionable orthodoxies is branded reactionary, extremist or worse. Imagined persecution has become a substitute for intellectual rigour.
Britain faces serious problems: an ageing population, record immigration, stagnant productivity and overstretched public services. Yet instead of confronting reality, too many on the Left retreat into a comforting fantasy where every disagreement is an attack and every critic is a villain.
Victimhood may harvest applause on social media, but it won't balance the books, build homes or secure Britain's future. A politics built on imagined grievances eventually runs out of real answers.
I definitely think some of the earlier feminists who have also voiced concern about the same issues as the ones above have a point. Not sure where some of the younger ones think this is going to end up …
Ha ha I agree. Seeing those stats made me feel a little bit more positive, and what a great slap in their stupid faces. Thanks lefties, for eradication our country of yourselves!
Brilliant piece Matt! As usual, these lefty woke lying idiots have no real argument, so they just defame their opponents by inventing slanderous so-called "facts". The more they do this, the more it helps Reform in my view. If you're a woman, VOTE REFORM!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Well said superbly constructed argument that any normal functioning person would be persuaded to listen to and sincerely digest. I fear though that there are a great many of the opposite viewpoint out there and they take their campaigning very seriously. Nonetheless more of this type of riposte and challenge is needed. So keep it up Matthew!
Matt, there is nothing you can say that will be taken in good faith by people like those - don’t waste your breath. It is a compliment of sorts that all of the other parties are so desperate to smear Reform, which has come from nowhere in just a few years to be a major contender. That being said, the party does not help itself sometimes, does it? That is, to some extent, understandable given the need to grow very quickly but a more effective rapid rebuttal unit would be worth looking into as well as a better vetting process.
Alan, very much agree about Reform not helping itself in this. Matt shows the complexity of the problems but Reform haven’t (as far as I know ) put out any simple message to cut across the b……t , apart from stressing ‘family’I would like to see it show more backing for everyone who makes a contribution to society -whether childless or not - while stressing the particular importance of restoring values of trusting and loving relationships between men and women , and making it economically possible for traditional family life to be restored. No need to bother answering the wokists, just speak directly to normal women and men!
I agree, Gill, but that is a very big elephant to eat and it will have to be done bite by bite. We have spent decades diminishing the role of the family and parental responsibility, and that will not quickly be reversed. Also, do not underestimate the extent to which progressives will paint any change as an attack on [insert name of victim group here]. There are plenty of people who buy into the nonsense, sad to say. The trick will be to build momentum carefully, without picking early fights. There are plenty of quick wins.
Sure, I appreciate all we’ve done to dismantle the family , but I’d be interested to hear what could be a quick win ? A more encouraging stance towards all women would be great , don’t know if that can be conveyed easily ?
Well, this isn’t an area of expertise for me, so bear with……. What about a transferrable tax allowance for a start? For a stay-at-home parent to transfer his/her allowance to a working spouse (not partner) can be a worthwhile addition to household income. Next would be a thorough overhaul of childcare regulations to put parents back in control - many women, in particular, find that their wage/salary is almost swallowed up by the current expensive and over-regulated system. A more contentious suggestion might be to insist on either marriage or a civil partnership as a gateway to any allowances. If we are looking to pick fights then education is the obvious target, but that should come later, I think.
What did you mean by ‘a more encouraging stance towards all women’ by the way?
People like the 'Guilty Feminist's positions don't even make logical sense. They hold so many contradictory ideas in their heads it's no wonder they are insane.
Although I am a champion of free speech I have moved to the point where I do think there should be consequences for lies in political campaigning . Obviously you can’t do much about the herd on social media but I do think elected politicians and their campaign staff should be subject to stricter rules on outright and misleading lies, and I think there should be requirements of journalists and podcasters , U tubers also to stop this swamp of misinformation that leaves ordinary people who are not political nerds not knowing what to think .
We can’t tackle everything by litigation but a few cases might send a message.
An example at the moment which has gained so much traction is Nigel’s inescapable £5 million where the circulating story is he will have to resign over it. I don’t think Nigel has made life easier by changing his story over what it was used for but it’s completely blocking any messages Reform are trying to get out
Lies Lesley and politicians are synonymous,we all know that we can always tell if a politician is lying by looking to see if their lips are moving but any attempt to legislate this unfortunate trait away is I am afraid doomed to frustrating despair.
Things never used to be this bad. And are deteriorating at the same time electoral corruption is on the rise. The wokerati are responsible by waiving the need for truth to be objective , instead it’s whatever they say it is. Societal norms need to change and regulatory assistance may be required. The speaker calls politicians out for unparliamentary language, and lying to the House is banned. This needs to be extended outside the House . The decline in manners and accepted societal norms and values have to be challenged .
Liberal Feminists are a bunch of nutters who couldn't lace the shoes of an actual working class mother, a real superhero, who are the life blood of this country, these liberal feminists look down their nose at these superheros who are everything they're not.
Simply put if western women decide not to have children at least to replacement value of 2.1 children per woman then western culture will disappear, to be replaced by a culture that encourages fertility, even if this is to the detriment of individual women.
In that regard 3rd and 4th wave feminism is an oxymoron.
Actually it’s is worse than that. Demographics is weighted towards earlier not later reproduction. Ie the younger a woman decides to have her children the more impact she makes on the demographic makeup of the next generation.
Western civilisation actively discourages earlier child birth ( now approaching 35years old for a woman to have her first child) it also encourages infertility with single sex partnerships.
With this in mind TBH I’m not sure western civilisation is sustainable.
Demographics are glacial in their impact and just as unstoppable
Liberals and feminists will only be allowed to say what they want and live how they like so long as the culture we are rapidly losing survived. If judeo Christian, western culture is replaced by the primitive values do often held by the immigrants these women claim to support, they will be among those to supper most and soonest.
Men from primitive villages in the Middle East and parts of Africa do not think well of LGBTQ+ groups and if their culture starts to dominate everyone will soon find out the consequences.
All your points are, as usual, correct. No need to worry though as our immigrants 'guests' are reproducing at the rate of 2.9 per woman and some Muslims have multiple wives so problem solved - or is it? We do live in a strange country and, as an 85 years old, it is markedly different to the one I knew in early adulthood. The key to reclaiming our country starts with free speech. I remember seeing 50/60 years ago that landladies could no longer put in the window adverts 'no dogs, no Irish, no blacks and I thought that this was the start of a limitation on free speech: I was right. We need to fight for unfettered free speech and other things will fall into place. KBO.
These liberal feminists have always wanted everything their own way and have ruined society. They can't see the wood for the trees and the sooner they are depleted the better! All extremists in different sections of society are the same. The world would be a better place without them!
Good stuff Matt, how about restoring the two child benefit , with an exception for those Brits that are 4th generation , to de-incentivise immigration and help integration,(long term}...
Superb riposte to the ideological Left. Sadly facts and actual arguments will not change their minds. However they may change the minds of the great majority of voters who will listen to the arguments and make up their own minds about it. Well done Matt, keep up the good work.
Thanks. A bit longer than I was aiming for! Cognitive dissonance on the left is a sight to behold.
I think the length was just fine, Matt!
Hannah Spencer and Carol Vorderman -
enough said !I am absolutely fed up with
people inventing things Nigel Farage has supposedly said- it is relentless and I am so sorry these ' feminists ' have targetted you Matt .They are absolutely pathetic !
Telling lies is the only way they can operate .Sadly and very annoyingly some people believe them .
For today's Left, victimhood isn't just a grievance – it's a political strategy. If they can't win an argument with facts, they'll simply invent one instead. Opponents are smeared, motives rewritten and perfectly reasonable debate is recast as oppression.
Take the latest row over Britain's collapsing birth rate. A proposal to discuss ways of supporting families somehow morphed into the absurd claim that childless women should be punished with higher taxes. It wasn't said, but that hardly mattered. Outrage travels faster than the truth, especially when amplified by the usual social media activists and self-appointed moral guardians.
This is modern progressive politics in a nutshell. Feelings trump facts, slogans replace evidence, and anyone daring to question fashionable orthodoxies is branded reactionary, extremist or worse. Imagined persecution has become a substitute for intellectual rigour.
Britain faces serious problems: an ageing population, record immigration, stagnant productivity and overstretched public services. Yet instead of confronting reality, too many on the Left retreat into a comforting fantasy where every disagreement is an attack and every critic is a villain.
Victimhood may harvest applause on social media, but it won't balance the books, build homes or secure Britain's future. A politics built on imagined grievances eventually runs out of real answers.
Very good! 💯
Great read , feminists have been infiltrated by woke ideology, I see it hear it and witness it
I definitely think some of the earlier feminists who have also voiced concern about the same issues as the ones above have a point. Not sure where some of the younger ones think this is going to end up …
They haven’t been infiltrated by woke. They founded it. Every Woke tactic was developed by feminists
Love the idea of liberals and lefties dying out through lack of baby-making. What’s not to like? Can’t come soon enough.
Ha ha I agree. Seeing those stats made me feel a little bit more positive, and what a great slap in their stupid faces. Thanks lefties, for eradication our country of yourselves!
Brilliant piece Matt! As usual, these lefty woke lying idiots have no real argument, so they just defame their opponents by inventing slanderous so-called "facts". The more they do this, the more it helps Reform in my view. If you're a woman, VOTE REFORM!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Well said superbly constructed argument that any normal functioning person would be persuaded to listen to and sincerely digest. I fear though that there are a great many of the opposite viewpoint out there and they take their campaigning very seriously. Nonetheless more of this type of riposte and challenge is needed. So keep it up Matthew!
Matt, there is nothing you can say that will be taken in good faith by people like those - don’t waste your breath. It is a compliment of sorts that all of the other parties are so desperate to smear Reform, which has come from nowhere in just a few years to be a major contender. That being said, the party does not help itself sometimes, does it? That is, to some extent, understandable given the need to grow very quickly but a more effective rapid rebuttal unit would be worth looking into as well as a better vetting process.
Alan, very much agree about Reform not helping itself in this. Matt shows the complexity of the problems but Reform haven’t (as far as I know ) put out any simple message to cut across the b……t , apart from stressing ‘family’I would like to see it show more backing for everyone who makes a contribution to society -whether childless or not - while stressing the particular importance of restoring values of trusting and loving relationships between men and women , and making it economically possible for traditional family life to be restored. No need to bother answering the wokists, just speak directly to normal women and men!
I agree, Gill, but that is a very big elephant to eat and it will have to be done bite by bite. We have spent decades diminishing the role of the family and parental responsibility, and that will not quickly be reversed. Also, do not underestimate the extent to which progressives will paint any change as an attack on [insert name of victim group here]. There are plenty of people who buy into the nonsense, sad to say. The trick will be to build momentum carefully, without picking early fights. There are plenty of quick wins.
Sure, I appreciate all we’ve done to dismantle the family , but I’d be interested to hear what could be a quick win ? A more encouraging stance towards all women would be great , don’t know if that can be conveyed easily ?
Well, this isn’t an area of expertise for me, so bear with……. What about a transferrable tax allowance for a start? For a stay-at-home parent to transfer his/her allowance to a working spouse (not partner) can be a worthwhile addition to household income. Next would be a thorough overhaul of childcare regulations to put parents back in control - many women, in particular, find that their wage/salary is almost swallowed up by the current expensive and over-regulated system. A more contentious suggestion might be to insist on either marriage or a civil partnership as a gateway to any allowances. If we are looking to pick fights then education is the obvious target, but that should come later, I think.
What did you mean by ‘a more encouraging stance towards all women’ by the way?
People like the 'Guilty Feminist's positions don't even make logical sense. They hold so many contradictory ideas in their heads it's no wonder they are insane.
Although I am a champion of free speech I have moved to the point where I do think there should be consequences for lies in political campaigning . Obviously you can’t do much about the herd on social media but I do think elected politicians and their campaign staff should be subject to stricter rules on outright and misleading lies, and I think there should be requirements of journalists and podcasters , U tubers also to stop this swamp of misinformation that leaves ordinary people who are not political nerds not knowing what to think .
We can’t tackle everything by litigation but a few cases might send a message.
An example at the moment which has gained so much traction is Nigel’s inescapable £5 million where the circulating story is he will have to resign over it. I don’t think Nigel has made life easier by changing his story over what it was used for but it’s completely blocking any messages Reform are trying to get out
Lies Lesley and politicians are synonymous,we all know that we can always tell if a politician is lying by looking to see if their lips are moving but any attempt to legislate this unfortunate trait away is I am afraid doomed to frustrating despair.
Things never used to be this bad. And are deteriorating at the same time electoral corruption is on the rise. The wokerati are responsible by waiving the need for truth to be objective , instead it’s whatever they say it is. Societal norms need to change and regulatory assistance may be required. The speaker calls politicians out for unparliamentary language, and lying to the House is banned. This needs to be extended outside the House . The decline in manners and accepted societal norms and values have to be challenged .
Liberal Feminists are a bunch of nutters who couldn't lace the shoes of an actual working class mother, a real superhero, who are the life blood of this country, these liberal feminists look down their nose at these superheros who are everything they're not.
Yep. Says it all.
Culture has to be underpinned by biology.
Simply put if western women decide not to have children at least to replacement value of 2.1 children per woman then western culture will disappear, to be replaced by a culture that encourages fertility, even if this is to the detriment of individual women.
In that regard 3rd and 4th wave feminism is an oxymoron.
Actually it’s is worse than that. Demographics is weighted towards earlier not later reproduction. Ie the younger a woman decides to have her children the more impact she makes on the demographic makeup of the next generation.
Western civilisation actively discourages earlier child birth ( now approaching 35years old for a woman to have her first child) it also encourages infertility with single sex partnerships.
With this in mind TBH I’m not sure western civilisation is sustainable.
Demographics are glacial in their impact and just as unstoppable
Liberals and feminists will only be allowed to say what they want and live how they like so long as the culture we are rapidly losing survived. If judeo Christian, western culture is replaced by the primitive values do often held by the immigrants these women claim to support, they will be among those to supper most and soonest.
Men from primitive villages in the Middle East and parts of Africa do not think well of LGBTQ+ groups and if their culture starts to dominate everyone will soon find out the consequences.
All your points are, as usual, correct. No need to worry though as our immigrants 'guests' are reproducing at the rate of 2.9 per woman and some Muslims have multiple wives so problem solved - or is it? We do live in a strange country and, as an 85 years old, it is markedly different to the one I knew in early adulthood. The key to reclaiming our country starts with free speech. I remember seeing 50/60 years ago that landladies could no longer put in the window adverts 'no dogs, no Irish, no blacks and I thought that this was the start of a limitation on free speech: I was right. We need to fight for unfettered free speech and other things will fall into place. KBO.
These liberal feminists have always wanted everything their own way and have ruined society. They can't see the wood for the trees and the sooner they are depleted the better! All extremists in different sections of society are the same. The world would be a better place without them!
Good stuff Matt, how about restoring the two child benefit , with an exception for those Brits that are 4th generation , to de-incentivise immigration and help integration,(long term}...