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    Der Studienkreditskandal könnte Menschen davon abhalten, Kinder zu bekommen, sagt 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. 1_BAR on

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

    13. Deepmidwinter2025 on

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

      She is such an opportunist.

    14. 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.

    15. psioniclizard on

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

    16. 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.

    18. 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?

    20. Ryerow on

      „Asked how long it might have taken her to pay off, she said: “Well, probably forever, because I think psychologically, the idea of just constantly having this thing like a millstone around my neck would have been quite heavy.

      “But also, I got a mortgage when I was 27 on a flat – I probably would not have been able to do that with the way that the interest payments on loans are working right now.“

      ??

      What is she talking about? It’s 9% of your income. The interest on the debt is immaterial and weighs in little on your mortgage application beyond the 9% hit to income.

      If her issue is with graduates at 27 being unable to afford to buy a flat, perhaps it’s because of the woeful state of house building and the broader cost of living.

      She hasn’t a clue what she’s even talking about anymore. I know this particular paper is very pro-tory but they’ve not even attempted to do their job and fact check her here…

    21. LithiumAmericium93 on

      Nah its more likely that the world is ran by paedophiles who have gotten away with it that stops people wanting kids.

    22. Important_Ruin on

      Wasn’t her party the one who put in place plan 2 student loans etc anyways?

      Selective memory.

    23. myanusisbleeding101 on

      And which party was it that introduced the student loan system, kimi?

    24. H1ghlyVolatile on

      Nah it’s more the fact that I hate existing and I don’t want someone else having to suffer this shit life.

    25. Nanowith on

      Well I’m glad they’re finally waking up somewhat! Who knows, next she might figure out that there’s a problem with the cost of housing?

    26. SwordfishLess3247 on

      I mean this technically isn’t wrong, but it’s a small thing among many others. However though, I do have a friend who earns around 30k a year from his main job and works a second job a Aldi to bring in another 15k a year. Only thing is, he gets hit really really hard for tax on his second job: 20% tax + 9% student loan (+ 10% NI on the last 6k of the 15k). What we need is a system like in France where you pay less tax after working around 35 hours a week.

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