We’ve given the influential American MHR website ‘A Voice for Men’ an exclusive on the first prospective parliamentary candidate we’ve selected for 2015, someone who contested the same parliamentary seat in 2010 for his own political party:

http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/justice-for-men-and-boys-party-arrives/

We wish him well. On 9 May I’ll be revealing – again through ‘A Voice for Men’ – the seat I’ll personally be contesting in 2015.

We need a lot more donations if we’re to hit our financial target for contesting 30 marginal seats in 2015. I ask you to donate whatever you can afford towards that goal (link below), and I remind you that nobody connected with the party draws any income from donations.

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/donate/

Thank you for your support of our efforts to make the future brighter for men and boys (and the women who love them).

Mike Buchanan

An article in The Guardian :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/28/girl-forced-pregnant-donor-semen

From the article:

The mother, described as “highly articulate”, and who “loves the children and they undoubtedly love her”, had isolated the family. The children were schooled at home, and the adoptive father of the eldest two was deliberately excluded, did not know where they lived and had not seen them for 10 years. Neighbours and social services were kept at bay.

It hardly needs saying that no father would be permitted by social services to isolate the family, exclude the mother etc. After all, mother knows best…

I’m on a roll social media-wise. Having established a Twitter account a few days ago, I’ve just set up a Facebook page with considerable support from a London-based MHRA, Richard Ford, who rejoices in the nickname ‘Black Fedora’. His two blogs are here:

http://sixmillionpounds.blogspot.co.uk

http://the-black-fedora.blogspot.co.uk

My Facebook page is below:

http://www.facebook.com/mike.buchanan.9066

I invite the subscribers to this blog (and other visitors) to invite me to become their ‘friend’.

One of our top target seats in 2015 will be Warwickshire North, because Dan Byles won the seat for the Conservatives in 2010 with a majority of just 54 votes. It was the most marginal Tory victory in the last general election.

Our campaign of engaging with local papers in our 30 target seats is bearing fruit. The other day I had a lengthy interview with Matt Lloyd, a journalist working for the Birmingham Mail, a major regional newspaper with strong sales in nearby north Warwickshire. The article has just been published online:

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/mike-buchanans-justice-men-boys-3182239

Matt Lloyd spoke to Musurat Dar, director of the Birmingham-based Amina Women’s Project. Among her questionable comments in the article is the following gem:

On the basis of statistics their arguments are not proven.

Now I hardly need tell followers of this blog how firmly based our campaigns are on statistics, while feminists have a very long and dishonourable history of creating statistics out of thin air, or representing inequalities of outcomes as reflecting gender discrimination when they’re clearly  attributable to other well-understood factors (e.g. the differential in gender-typical men’s and women’s work ethics). So I shall shortly be sending the following email to Amina Women’s Project:

FAO Musurat Dar

Musurat, good afternoon. The Birmingham Mail today published online an article concerning the aims and plans of the political party I lead, Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them). You’re quoted in the article as saying, ‘On the basis of statistics their arguments are not proven.’ You have this slightly wrong – on the basis of statistics our arguments ARE proven. Would you please be so good as to supply me with the statistics you were thinking about when you made this statement, so that we might review and critique them publicly?

I’ve just put up posts on two of our websites https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com and http://fightingfeminism.wordpress.com. I invite you to comment on the content and statistics in our consultation document //j4mb.org.uk/our-public-consultation-exercise-2. We’ll be happy to post your responses to the document on our blogs, along with our comments on your responses. We will, of course, waive the £20.00 donation to party funds which we normally seek from people giving us feedback on the document. Please feel free to contact me anytime at mb1957@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you. Mike Buchanan.

Oh, one final thing, I almost forgot. I thought you’d be interested in a video posted online recently, which features a very intelligent and insightful young Muslim lady, Zara Faris:

//j4mb.org.uk/2013/04/15/zara-faris-debunks-feminism/

I was interested to read the following piece, just published by The Commentator :

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3371/exclusive_leaked_documents_reveal_tory_spinners_in_intensive_anti_ukip_media_briefings

I was interested for two reasons. I worked for the Conservatives at CCHQ for two years (2006-8) and I was a minor donor for a time, before cancelling my party membership in late 2009 when David Cameron announced his intention to use a number of all-women PPC shortlists to select candidates for the approaching general election. He planned to take advantage of legislation introduced by Harriet Harman in 2008 for the purpose – it allowed all-women PPC shortlists to be used for the coming 25 years. I’m always interested to hear about what’s going on at CCHQ, whether from pieces in the public domain, or from former colleagues (and a small number of people who were taken on since my departure).

The second reason is that this ‘dirty tricks’ campaign shows the level of fear in the Conservatives about the electoral prospects of UKIP. I have it on good authority that CCHQ is keeping a ‘watching brief’ on our activities too, and doubtless they’ll try to smear our candidates in the fullness of time. We’ve just selected our first candidate to contest a seat at the 2015 general election, and we’ll be revealing the person’s name in the coming week or two.

It costs at least £1,000 to fund a candidate at a general election, if they’re to have any prospects of making an impact (£500 deposit + £500 for campaign literature, which is delivered to households at no charge by the Post Office). I would therefore ask you to make a donation, however small, to our campaign funds. Nobody involved with the party earns any income from donations. If you feel able to donate a minimum of £20.00, we’ll invite you to comment on our public consultation document (link below). I’ll read your comments personally, and respond. Thank you for your interest in our work.

https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-consultation-exercise-2/

Mike Buchanan

Kristina Hansen is the Canadian News Editor for ‘A Voice for Men’, and she’s just posted a short (3:27) and moving video (link below) in honour of Earl Silverman. Formerly the victim of an abusive wife, Earl Silverman established the only men’s shelter in Canada for male victims of domestic violence inflicted by women. It received no state funding, and not long ago he had to close the facility, due to lack of financial support.

Yesterday Earl committed suicide.

Please find 207 seconds to watch the video and honour this fine man. Thank you.

http://www.avoiceformen.com/a-voice-for-men/rip-earl-silverman-you-wont-be-forgotten/

People keep telling me I have to be on Twitter. I’ve finally succumbed to the pressure and set up an account, so if enough people ‘follow’ me – @MikeBuchanan11 – I’ll start tweeting and see if it’s a good investment of time.

My thanks to the gentleman who’s provided me with a link to the ‘Yorkshire jail’ story:

http://converseprisonnews.com/2012/10/08/prison-officers-jailed-in-sex-with-rapist-case/

In a recent post we covered the issue of admission tests being relaxed so as to increase the number of female firefighters, and the potential consequence of death and injury to the public and to firefighters themselves. I’m grateful to a supporter for bringing to my attention a newspaper article about female prison guards, definitely one for the, ‘You couldn’t make this s*** up!’ file, which is becoming very full:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313882/13-officers-indicted-Baltimore-prison-gang-scandal-Murderer-fathered-FIVE-children-FOUR-guards.html

http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/male-disposability-and-mary-p-koss/