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Nigel Farage said that the birth rate in the UK must be increased because he has initiated the defense of family values that could alienate the moderate voters that his side reform hopes to be attracted to both work and conservatives.
The reform leader said that the family unit was “extremely important” and that the West lost the sight of his “Judeo-Christian” cultural basis, during his appearance at a conference for the right-wing federation for responsible citizenship on Tuesday.
His comments signal the turn of the right populist party, which in some surveys overpowered the work and conservatives, focusing on migration and net zero.
“Of course, family important are important, of course, we need a higher birth rate,” Fakage He said the event, adding that the UK and the wider West “forgot that what is basically all our Judeo-Christian culture is and we must start there.”
The return of the “sense of optimism” that was last in the 1980s and 1990s was crucial to the reversal of a decrease in the fertility rate in the UK, Farage said.
Calling some “very, very big cultural changes” to convince the British that they have children, he continued: “We have to start telling young children that hard work is good, that success is good, that there is no shortcut in life, that it is good.”
Farage also complained of the transition of more than one million additional people in the benefit of the pandemic start, and warned that the young were Desitentivated by the system.
The issue of decline in the Natality in the West was emphasized by Elon Musk and several other figures associated with Maga. It is unclear whether the transition to social conservatism will win more support in the UK.
Luke TRYL, Executive Director of Multiple Research Pressure, told the Financial Times that new fans who swung behind the party were “much more moderate than the people who voted for them last year”.
Speaking with Farage on Tuesday, controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson described divorces, single mothers and homosexuals as “deviations from the norm.”
Asked Farage to comment on the thesis that “stable, committed.. Heterosexual, monogamy aimed at a child is a kind of long -term commitment to the community, sacrifice and sacrifice and [a] The future is the basic unit of civilized, organized. . . society”.
Farage replied, “I cannot necessarily be the best advocate of monogamous heterosexuality or stable marriage, divorced twice.”
However, he said he was motivated last year to return to the politics of duty to “family, community and country”.
Farage is credited with entering the young voters, the construction of a significant monitoring of Tictok, a loved one from the generation of Z, where there are 1.2 million followers – far exceeding all work politicians or Tory.
Trel warned that focus on family issues is likely to be a “distraction” for reforms, which is facing his biggest challenge in persuading the voter that he is more than a protest party and that he could lead a government.
“Now there is a reform in the big leagues, such things that motivate the base and is very” coded “only to be washed most of the public,” he said. “Everything should now be in resolving the gap of credibility.”
Farage also used his platform on ARC eventA three -day conference in East London, attended by 4,000 people intended for regeneration of ideas on the right, criticizing Rachel Reeves and talking about climate change policies.
He claimed that the chancellor made “you want to reach for crying tissues,” adding her messages: “It’s all so miserable, it’s all so declentic. Honestly, conservatives were no better.”
Farage also claimed that the obligation of the Government of the UK was a “complete and complete disaster” to achieve a net zero and said that it was “absolutely a small” yes “he hears that the carbon dioxide is a pollutant,” adding: “They tell us. apparently absolutely nut. “
