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    Lo scandalo dei prestiti studenteschi potrebbe scoraggiare le persone ad avere figli, dice Badenoch

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    1. HotelPuzzleheaded654 on

      Anything that adds to your cost of living deters you from having children.

      That being said, unfreezing repayment thresholds does a lot more than cutting interest rates.

    2. NetflixSux247 on

      Maybe the fact that shitty houses can cost half a million might be more of a factor.

    3. Lazy_Crab_3584 on

      Er… Didn’t a conservative government oversee the more recent changes to student loans?

    4. ThrowawayGreekGod on

      Her party is literally responsible for this, and she’s not even suggesting walking it back 😑

    5. grey_hat_uk on

      Wow, I mean maybe but out of all the issues and still no one looking at reality and deciding to fix the system to accommodate a shinking population I have zero thoughts to the 5th party placeholder leader.

    6. MysteriousHat3705 on

      No Kemi, I’m put off because I don’t earn enough money to have children. My loan doesn’t even cross my mind.

    7. Popular_View_5411 on

      1.) Tories introduced policies that increased student debt significantly.

      2.) Tories introduced policies that inflated the price of houses

      3.) Tories introduced policies to dissuade people from having children like the two child benefit cap

      4.) Tories oversaw the casualisation of employment making jobs less secure.

      5 ) Tories saw remote learning during COVID as just as valuable as in-person education despite many people forming social and professional relationships in university including romantic partners.

      Tories now shocked there’s a demographic crisis.

    8. Cynical_Classicist on

      Bringing them into a country ruined by your party would put them off.

    9. HospitalAmazing1445 on

      In that case the political party that brought us Plan 2 loans is clearly unfit to ever lead the country again…

    10. ThePlanck on

      I wonder what her party would have done if they had been in power for most of the last 15 years

    11. Sam_and_Linny on

      Kemi Badenoch puts me off having children. If someone so callous can be the head of a political party, I wonder what hope my children might have

    12. Pogeos on

      She is totally sensible within the current system. The only alternative system I can see is the one where university education is totally free* but severely restricted to only top performing student (perhaps 1/5 of the current cohort). The rest should either pay full price for the Uni (and take loans on some sort of commercial arrangement) or wouldn’t get into Uni. I don’t think people would like such an arrangement.

      The arrangement where uni education is free and people pay for it through general taxation would lead to proliferation of all sorts of junk degrees and would greatly incentivise unis to grab as many students as they can physically fit in

    13. 1_BAR on

      If that’s the case, why is the birthrate declining in almost every country on earth. I love tory logic.

    14. Deepmidwinter2025 on

      Says the woman from the party that made student loads so expensive.

      She is such an opportunist.

    15. 50_61S-----165_97E on

      Right wing politicians know that the solution to low birth rates is to make housing more affordable. But they refuse to admit that because building homes goes against the interests of their NIMBY voter base.

    16. psioniclizard on

      14 years of her parties government and Brexit did a pretty good job qt achieving that for many of us.

    17. bureaucrat_chaos on

      Isn’t it a bit too late to do something about the interest rate? I’m at £70k on a plan 2. You can abolish interest rates entirely and I still won’t be able to pay it off.

    19. LostNitcomb on

      > Conservative leader said she’d be £100,000 in debt if she had been forced to take out the Plan 2 loans, as she suggested no one should be going to university to study floral arrangement

      Is there a degree course for *floral arrangement*? Or is that just Kemi talking bullshit?

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