Posted on 05/27/2025 11:30:07 PM PDT by RandFan
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said he wants to make it easier for people to have children, as he confirmed his party would back more generous tax breaks for married people and scrap the two-child benefit limit.
In a speech in central London, Farage said he wanted to lift the cap "not because we support a benefits (welfare) culture" but because it would make things easier for lower-paid workers.
If his party wins power, Farage said he would also reverse the government's cuts which saw the winter fuel payment withdrawn from 10 million pensioners.
Responding to the speech, Labour Party chairwoman Ellie Reeves accused Farage of "fantasy promises", which "are exactly how Liz Truss crashed the economy".
Farage's intervention comes as the prime minister faces pressure from his own MPs on government spending decisions, including cuts to disability benefits.
Some Labour MPs also want to see the abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which prevents most families from claiming means-tested benefits for any third or additional children born after April 2017.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said the government is considering lifting the cap but that it would "cost a lot of money".
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They have plenty of babies, if you like the name Mohammed.
Yes it’s one of the most popular names here
,,, Labour have made sure their own promises are fantasies. Ellie needs to discover reality. Her Party is in the gutter because of lies.
6 months instead of 9.
Its not enough that the Mohammeds rule London?
Lie back, close your eyes, and do it for the king, gentleladies.
Here’s a thought - close down the baby-killing mills.....
Well since some woke liberals think guys can get pregnant, sign them up.
It starts with taking one’s clothes off.
Which one?
The problem is that the UK’s LGBT/feminist culture disdains functional families with children. Islam resists this culture. Leftist Brits embrace it.
It’s easy to have children in the UK... If you are Islamic. The rest of the country is paying for its own destruction by supporting an ideology that hates them.
Castrate the every male immigrant first.
Conceiving children is easy.
Birthing them has become the issue.
Stop trafficking your English girls and maybe more of them will start families.
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