Excellent post Cossy at 10:18.
Yes, the 'leaders' v 'followers' is an important distinction which I think maybe nanna8 is missing.
What Farage and Lowe appear to actually want is to cancel welfare completely, keep women out of the labour market completely and push our country back to the 1950’s when we all “knew our place”.
It's been hinted at obliquely by Farage and others. Some more high-profile figures have also made it clear by their comments that they are indeed misogynistic in their outlook.
I think the belief is that in order not to have to rely on immigrant labour, we should produce our own home-grown force. That will of course require women to SAH, and there have been suggestions that life could be made a bit easier for mothers who do - along with ideas to penalise those women who don't.
If we, Farage et al, follow the American model - and that seems a fairly reasonable assumption as he (Farage) has allegedly spent more time in the US than he has in Clacton and makes no bones about his support for Trump, then would it also be reasonable to assume that there will be efforts to reduce the further educational opportunities open to women at present? My personal opinion is that a vote for Farage will ultimately lead to a very regressive and repressive government - for women. Farage himself may not be too extreme in this regard, but there are others, men - we don't talk about them much on GN - who, for various personal reasons quite literally hate women and want to see them disenfranchised.
If you'll bear with me for a moment... for many months now I've been 'following' various American men who espouse the manosphere on FB. They do vary in their insistence that women's role is purely to support men, but the more extreme individuals' views should alarm any woman who values her personal freedom and independence. But, the point I want to make is that, on checking their FB page, every single man who indicated a political allegiance, supported Trump. Of course along with others on FB there were those who kept their account private - or didn't appear to have any political 'interest', nevertheless, I think it's hugely important to note that those who did were behind Trump. And, of those, the number who called for the repeal of the - I think 21st Amendment, which gives women the right to vote - is high.
Farage might not take us down this route - but his party, and Restore's - will attract those who would, inevitably. And Farage will, one day, retire. I don't believe it's too fanciful to imagine a day in the future - under a Reform government - when he, Farage, would, historically, be regarded as the 'benign' face of the rightward movement.
Any GN member who has daughters and grand daughters should research Farage fully, specifically his ties with the MAGA movement, and the American Tea Party movement, not to mention his expansion into cryptocurrency where donations have connected the Party to Silicon Valley where he maintains professional relationships with prominent (and very rich) Trump-aligned crypto 'advisors'.
I'd seriously question how much he really cares about the 'left-behind', disenfranchised or 'forgotten' members of society, or whether he's using their legitimate grievances - he is very articulate and convincing - merely as a political tool to achieve his own agenda.
