Earlier today I took part in a debate with controverisalist Katie Hopkins.
Earlier today I took part in a debate with controverisalist Katie Hopkins, during which the former Apprentice star said she agreed “in principle” that people on benefits should be “stopped from breeding”. However the policy would be “difficult to enforce”, she added.
The debate came on the back of a tweet by footballer Joey Barton, who lashed out after watching the Channel 4 show Benefits Street, calling for people to require a “licence for breeding”.
Asked if she agreed with Joey Barton, Ms Hopkins replied:
“I think some of these policies are a little bit difficult to enforce, but I do agree with him in principle.”
Yes, because the problem with sterilisation of the poor (how else are you going to stop people having children?) isn’t that it’s extreme or anything, it’s just “difficult to enforce”.
Listen to the debate in full here:
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16 Responses to “Katie Hopkins on stopping poor people having children: ‘difficult to enforce, but I do agree…in principle’”
JC
Helping the least well off is part of capitalist principles/ Many capitalists do it.
Socialists, however, expect the state to do it for them.
blarg1987
It is not capitalist principles to help the least well off, it is peoples principles to help the least well off. it is true many people with both left and right wing views do help the least well off.
swatnan
The fact is you can’t stop young girls and women like that from having children even if you trired. Having a child is the only way out of their miserable existance, and the only way these women have of some kind of affection, very different from the troubled homes they come from. Little do they realise that a child means responsibility, and many simply are not capable of that kind of responsibility, so the State has to pick up the pieces, yet again..
Remarx
Godfrey’s law or not
Remarx
Whoops!