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The Tories’ rising culture warrior claims Labour wants to nationalise children – 15 favourite responses
Miriam Cates MP is making quite a name for herself, somehow managing to combine the worst attributes of Jacob Rees-Mogg, 30p Lee and Nadine Dorries in her determination to wage the culture war.
The backbencher’s allegiences lie with Tory lobby groups the New Social Covenant Unit, the Common Sense Group, and now the newly formed New Conservatives. That’s a lot of new, but her talking points are exactly what you’d expect from the Tory right.
She wants to cut immigration.
"We’re proposing to shut that route so employers look at recruiting local young people"
Miriam Cates, MP in the New Conservatives group which wants stricter measures to curb immigration, says ending temporary visa schemes would encourage Brits to fill care sector jobs.#R4Today pic.twitter.com/IyKCzrG4rI
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) July 3, 2023
She thinks that the UK’s low birthrate should be the government’s top priority and wants tax changes to make childbirth and stay-at-home mothering a more attractive prospect.
Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP Miriam Cates tells right-wing National Conservatism conference in London; ‘Cultural Marxism’ & 'excessive education' are among factors causing existential threat! 🙋♂️ 🇬🇧
If it sounds *A LOT* like Fascism… 😬
https://t.co/xLA0X8BtNE— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) May 15, 2023
As a ‘devout Christian’, she voted against laws to promote equality and giving free meals to poor children during the school holidays. As Jesus famously said “Don’t feed hungry kids. Their parents should have worked harder.”
Tweeters largely treated it with the scorn it deserved.
Her latest hottest of hot takes appeared in the Telegraph.
Morning. pic.twitter.com/iHWJLtvZGR
— Roland Smith (@rolandmcs) July 5, 2023
We’re just relieved she isn’t indulging in conspiracy theories bordering on the hysterical in response to Labour wanting more highly qualified Early Years teachers.
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If it gets our children to run on time and reduces the amount of profit they make I am all for it x pic.twitter.com/h67sqx9Tch
— Buckers (@deathofbuckley) July 5, 2023
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Miriam Cates, a few steps away from posing, assault weapon in hand, by the corpse of a baby giraffe.
Easy to laugh but remember – her ilk is there to massage the aging groins of the Tory bedrock and to push her party ever rightwards. She is a stormtrooper with fuhrer delusions. pic.twitter.com/Bg0x3VqpSa
— Paul (@PaulOnBooks) July 5, 2023
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Hello I've lost my mind pic.twitter.com/AHD5mMM7ll
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) July 5, 2023
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why, have yours run a failed privatised service pic.twitter.com/SCh9HXSO7S
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) July 5, 2023
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"They're coming for your children", 2024 election edition. https://t.co/sZGt0CDiIX
— Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola (@Frances_Coppola) July 5, 2023
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A totally normal response to a proposal to encourage more graduates to work in nurseries. pic.twitter.com/Q72kgjzrop
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 5, 2023
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No problem with this.
When my 6yo was privatised I’d catch him throwing raw sewage into the sea. pic.twitter.com/uGKO7w0nnz— Tom Reagan’s Hat (@RufusTSuperfly) July 5, 2023
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Does Miriam cates really think she could be PM without any substance abuse tests ? pic.twitter.com/gmI9tzcwL2
— Spanish Dan 💙 conservative CORRUPTION (@SpanishDan1) July 5, 2023
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Cuckoo. pic.twitter.com/bGIoKlwJQ8
— Mic Wright is reporting. (@brokenbottleboy) July 5, 2023
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Live scenes from the Telegraph offices. https://t.co/nF339hk5Jh pic.twitter.com/OFlAgBEXpy
— Colin the Dachshund (@DachshundColin) July 5, 2023
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if slacking, frankly jobless, scrounging children are forced to hand back their obscene profits and bonuses to the public taxpayers then count THIS 9-5er in, Miriam pic.twitter.com/tZdW6PuW5O
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) July 5, 2023
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They’re right to do it, we should be sending them back up chimneys https://t.co/7Vc9SBcHFR
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) July 5, 2023
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What if I want to buy a private child https://t.co/1kGJoW3S8P
— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) July 5, 2023
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Has Miriam Cates been sniffing the pens again? pic.twitter.com/kuYVzKGU0C
— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) July 5, 2023
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New Clause 4?!
To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their loins…
… upon the basis of the common ownership of the output of reproduction. https://t.co/e3xU7OQClB
— Mark Curry (@TheRebelMC) July 5, 2023
Sam Freedman didn’t want to throw the nationalised baby out with the bathwater.
How much will they pay to existing shareholders? Wouldn't want to dismiss the idea too hastily. https://t.co/9UYl72Z7mC
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) July 5, 2023
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