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    Nigel Farage criticised after claiming ‘most stable relationships’ are between men and women

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    1. Simplyobsessed2 on

      A quick look on Wikipedia shows Farage is divorced from his first wife, separated from his second and now in a relationship with somebody else. So forgive me if I don’t give his views on this much importance.

    3. No_Audience3838 on

      I mean aside from the blatant dog whistle this just isn’t true?

      > the data show that there is very little difference in relationship longevity between homo- and heterosexual couples. Of the 126 same-sex couples and 2,157 heterosexual couples identified in the Manning study, it was determined that 27% of the same-sex couples and 28% of the heterosexual couples ended their relationships within five years of their genesis, and that relationships that ended within three years of their genesis did so at a rate of 22% for same-sex couples and 20% for heterosexual couples (Manning et.al, 2016).

    4. Univeralise on

      The irony is the lowest divorce rate of wedded couples is actually when a man is married to a man.

    6. OkPea5819 on

      Stable relationships, not being a c**t, just some of the things he’s unqualified to give an opinion on.

    8. trashmemes22 on

      Anyone who thinks American style politics isn’t coming here – remember this and abortion that reform have bought up . We don’t need this here . This is the social attitudes of the uk 50 years ago and he wants to take us back .

    10. merryman1 on

      Is it bad for me to think all these young gay men who’ve been drawn to the right by their (entirely justifiable) fear of Islamism are going to be in for a nasty shock if they enable a Reform government to get into power?

    11. MoffTanner on

      I’d hope this is the start of something where the BNP gained some prevalence then collapsed due to the scrutiny they got.

    12. wobble_bot on

      This is the next phase of reforms playbook. Villainise refugees, then move into the LGBTQ+ communities, for the ‘sake of the children’.

    13. Ticklishchap on

      Nigel Farage

      Is against equal marriage.

      He thinks adultery is great

      As a privilege, if you’re straight.

    15. potpan0 on

      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: people keep insisting ‘it can’t happen here,’ but we’re literally witnessing it happen here right now. You can talk all you want about Britain’s *secular institutions*, or our *tolerant society*, but the treatment of trans people demonstrates how rapidly all that can crumble when a little bit of far-right money is sprinkled into the right pockets.

      If Farage becomes Prime Minister you can guarantee that we’ll see an erosion of broader LGBT+ rights, because that’s precisely what those paying him want.

    16. Flat_Manufacturer386 on

      We really are in the era of politicians saying whatever wild shit corroborates the preexisting bigotry of their cult like followers. It’s actually not fair to solely blame him for this, because he’s just regurgitating what his followers want to hear. Are the politicians bad, or are we just getting what we deserve? I’ve been following British politics closely since the Iraq war awakened me, and I honestly think we need a bit more personal responsibility as far as how fucking abysmal our politicians are. We live in an information age where you could be sat on a bus on Wandsworth bridge, and do the ten seconds or less of typing into a search engine, that would show this statement to be the bullshit that it is. We really are absolutely useless.

    17. zZCycoZz on

      Lots of of the turbulance in hetero relationships can come from the difference in emotional experience between men and women.

      It stands to reason that gay couples probably have an easier time seeing the same perspective.

    18. nkdont on

      Marriage isn’t necessarily the yard stick of stability some people think it is. Plenty of stable relationships exist where the parties aren’t married, whether hetero or homosexual.

    19. Equal_Tadpole2716 on

      My gay pals have the most solid relationship of any of my friends. They seem the happiest in general tbh. Might reconsider my life choices.

    20. Funny_Name4818 on

      I think statistically gay men get divorced the least then it’s hetro marriages and lesbian marriages get divorced the most, must say something

    21. yeastysoaps on

      Based on a sample size of him, there’s like a 33% chance of a stable relationship between a woman and Nigel Farage. So either Nigel Farage is claiming he’s not a man… Or he’s grifting for some sweet, sweet US Christian Nationalist money.

    23. TRDPorn on

      The data shows that the most stable relationships are between men and men

      Men and women are somewhere in the middle

      Women and women are the least stable

    25. mariah_a on

      It’s homophobic, dog whistling, hateful, and also untrue. But it won’t stop a whole shitload of people voting for him, it seems.

      Genuinely it feels so hopeless to be in this country at times.

    26. Adam-West on

      Male couples are very similar to heterosexual couples in terms of divorce rates. Lesbians are a bit higher. But honestly what’s the relevance? Are we about to stop same sex marriages based on divorce rates? Is that really the metric we care about? Especially coming from a man that’s basically a polygamist at this point.

    27. DavidBehave01 on

      Gotta love this stuff. Anyone remember PM John Major’s ‘back to family values’ campaign? It later emerged he’d had a four year affair with one of his own MPs.

    29. LyingFacts on

      I don’t know too many people who marry stay married for multiple decades with no cheating. Of the 300 or odd so couples off the top of my head that I know, from former colleagues, family & friends over the years I can only think of those 300, 2 were actually ‘stable’. Most divorced. They were all straight who divorced the 2 that were together for multiple decades were a lesbian couple and a gay couple….. so.

    30. sensen6 on

      First, abortion. Then, gay rights. Then, contraception. (As you know, ‘it screws up the female brain’—a’la Charlie Kirk). And finally, voting rights.

      Make no mistake, your local fascist is coming for you. Brought to you by Putin. See Orban, se Trump. Now see Farage

    31. MidlandPark on

      There was a gay bloke who was getting annoyed that Redditors were critising him for being a Reform fan, I wonder what he thinks about this?

    32. fullpurplejacket on

      It’s got fuck all to do with him what people do in their private lives and with their own time as long as they’re not breaking the law such as participating in a treason or collusion with a foreign government

    33. Hippopotamus_can_fly on

      Every single heterosexual couple in my family divorced and moved on to their now second/third and even fourth (for one of them) marriages. My sole homosexual couple relatives, have remained married/together (as they only married a few years ago) since before I was born in the nineties.

      Now of course I’m just talking from my own family experience, but I also remember being at school and a hell of a lot of kids had divorced parents, which consisted of mum and dad.

    34. RedofPaw on

      I hope he gets challenged on this, relentlessly.

      Are the press hounding him about his tax?

      If not why not?

    35. BrieflyVerbose on

      I don’t even need to check the facts before responding to this. Gay men have the .oat stable long term relationships out of any of the demographics, then it’s a male and female couple, and then finally by quite a margin the lesbian demographic has some bad stats in comparison.

      So fuck knows what data he’s refering too!

    36. IntraVnusDemilo on

      People fall in love and get into relationships. Their gender/sex or whatever other name there is for it is irrelevant. I support stable relationships between people that want to be in relationships with each other.

    38. Competitive_Pen7192 on

      Typical Farage. Saying something that will appeal to the masses but doesn’t actually stand up to scrutiny.

      The amount of heterosexual divorces/affairs I’ve seen over the years sinks this instantly.

      People will be people regardless of their sexual orientation and relationships are often unstable regardless of what your preferences are.

      But it’s comforting to the simpleton to see this article and agree because it doesn’t challenge their world view. Even as their best friend sleeps with their wife.

    39. wkavinsky on

      The most stable relationships, statistically, are between men and men.

      They are also the least violent relationships in terms of partner abuse.

    40. Extra-Fisherman-995 on

      Actually it’s between men and men. Once you add women it becomes less stable. Lesbian couples have the highest failure rate, followed by hetero couples. Male couples are the most stable.