European and North American support for the state of Israel is an absolute obscenity.
I can only assume that "poor people have too many kids" AND "we need people to have kids so they can do jobs that make people poor" can co-exist in the same conservative brain simply because it's otherwise empty, so there's lots of space for both ideas to rattle round without encountering the other
It both troubles me and horrifies me that there are people in mainstream media and politics who consider that the lives of Palestinian children really are worth less than others. This thinking is at the centre of all dehumanisation. It can be turned onto any group and adapted to any bigotry.
Should we lift the 2-child benefit cap then lads?
The Tories doing "Brits should have more babies for the workforce" after several decades of "you shouldn't have kids if you can't afford them" sure is something.
One striking thing about her memoir is the book jacket being covered in positive reviews from Tory papers. Before they worked out it was a profitable bigotry
Reckon they're daft enough to take that drop as a positive sign. "It just shows we're making tough choices"
Had to shuffle out pretending to care about some social issue like some Corbynite scruff!