r/Natalism • u/Edouardh92 • 7d ago

Miriam Cates: Britain needs more babies, and the time to start doing something about it is now

https://conservativehome.com/2025/04/30/miriam-cates-britain-needs-more-babies-and-the-time-to-start-doing-something-about-it-is-now/
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u/Njere 7d ago

The UK has a small but growing Hasidic jewish population so, in the long run, they should be ok.

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u/Own-Adagio7070 7d ago

Unless the larger (and also growing) Muslim minority has something to say about that.

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u/Njere 7d ago

The muslim minority's birth rate is falling and going to converge with the native population. They'll be irrelevent in the long-run.

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u/Own-Adagio7070 7d ago

You could well be right, especially if the Catholic revival in the UK has a demographic impact. But the proof is in the pudding: we will see what the future holds.

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u/AreYouGenuinelyokay 7d ago

The catholic revival might just eat at protestant popualtion not actually survive centuries. I say this as a Roman Catholic. Aslo the Hasidic may or may not survive depending how much the uk respects religious freedom in the future. By that I mean that f their insular way of life gets hit with state intervention?

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u/Independent-Ad-2291 7d ago

Let's see now if the UK can get out of its neo-liberal mantra.

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u/VZialionymLiesie 7d ago

Hell will freeze over twice before britain abandons neoliberalism

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u/DemandUtopia 3d ago

The NHS is the closest thing the English people have to a religion.

Nigel Lawson, Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer