Matthew Goodwin
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than Tory MPs are to the average voter, right? In other words, the Conservative movement have moved so far to the cultural left that they've basically abandoned ordinary voters. They're indistinguishable, basically, from their Labour colleagues. Now, nobody could say that about Reform MPs. They are bang on, basically, where the average voter is on these big cultural and identity questions.
So that's how I see it. And I see it's a correction to a system that has become deeply corrupt and ideologically homogenous.
But I'll just say, just about the conversation that you're sparking with ARK, you have to understand, Jordan, that that is essentially the only place that is having that conversation here in the UK. I mean, if you look at the long-term forecast of where we are headed as a country, by 2100, our fertility rate is forecast to be 1.3%. well below the replacement level of 2.1.
It's currently at about 1.6 at the moment. We also now know that between today and 2047, which again isn't really that far away, 22 years, our population is forecast to grow by another 10 million people, obviously all of whom will come from outside of the UK. Migration is the only driver.
It is the only driver of population growth in this country because more people are now dying than being born among the British population. So migration is the only driver of population growth while our fertility rate is collapsing. So what I'm saying is... If you want to have a conversation about pro-family policy, okay, what does that look like?
How can we support families outside of, you know, tinkering with the tax system? How could we actually radically have, bring about a pro-family culture, right? And people say, oh, you can't do that. Well, I say, well, look what they did with smoking. I mean, look at how, you know, that changed the culture, right? You've suddenly convinced everybody.
Israel has done it. Now, interestingly, Israel has had a lot more success than countries like Poland and Hungary, also countries under the world. Now, how has Israel done it? Israel has done it by making it clear that actually the survival of the nation, the survival of the people is dependent upon them all assuming responsibility and playing a role in that enterprise.
Now, somehow Western nations have to come up with something similar, something that is existential, that appeals to the soul and appeals to that sense of responsibility, because I don't think tax changes and all that stuff are really going to do it. But again, family, so that conversation is happening at ARC. It's not happening with our mainstream political elite. The effects of migration are
They're not talking about the evidence that is being accumulated that is showing this is going to be a disaster over the next 10, 20, 30 years. What we're doing, like Canada, is we are pushing our country into a population trap. And what do I mean by that? I mean that we are basically pushing ourselves into a position whereby the capacity of the state to provide basic public services
is being overwhelmed by the sheer scale of demographic change. That's a population trap. So if you cannot provide basic health services, basic housing, if you cannot keep people safe on their streets, and you're being sort of flooded with demographic change, well, you know, welcome to a disaster, because that is what is unfolding, not just here, but also, by the way, in countries like Sweden.
I mean, most of your viewers, I suspect, won't know this, but Since Christmas, you know, we're speaking in February 2025. In the last month, there have been more than 30 bombings in Sweden. 30 bombings in Sweden. Right. None of that's covered with the Weather Magazine. None of that's in the mainstream media. Unbelievable.
Again, you know, conversations that are being had, thankfully, in this new ecosystem of podcasts, of shows, of Daily Wire, new universities—
That is one of the reasons, one of the few reasons why I am actually optimistic, because we are now beginning to force a conversation about family policy, about the rape gangs, about the future of the West, about how we reframe our understanding of our history, about how we share a sense of patriotism and a belief in the values that have driven this thing we love called Western civilization.
That's one of the only reasons I'm actually optimistic that this new ecosystem has taken off to the extent that it has done.
Thanks, Jordan. Looking forward to seeing you as well.
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