My thanks to John Kimble for sending me links to some materials relating to our campaigning outside Nottingham University yesterday, at the end of which someone hurled some heavily soiled cat litter over one of our vehicles. With his agreement, the rest of this blog piece consists of John’s email:

Mike, you’ve probably been alerted to the comments on Facebook regarding J4MB and Nottingham University, but just in case you haven’t, I thought I’d share them. Firstly, there’s this interesting exchange on the Women’s Network Facebook page.

Note how it asks if people feel threatened by the very “presence” of J4MB – not your conduct or actions, but simply because of the fact that you dare to exist near their campus. Secondly, note the phrase “get in contact with us and we’ll see what we can do!”. Quite a disturbing mindset to have, really, and then the actual violence you were subject to puts in in a whole new light.

Someone named Beth later chimes in, stating: “Remember if you feel harassed or threatened remember you can report to campus security or the police” – again note how it’s people’s feelings that matter, reality is irrelevant. Beth then takes this a stage further with the following gem: “I don’t know how they’ll campaign but want people to know they can take action should they feel offended”. You really couldn’t make this stuff up!

I’ve archived the content in case it gets deleted – here.

I also found another exchange on the University’s “Left Society” page .

They claim J4MB were “intimidating” those who challenged them (presumably with fact and statistics and other horrible patriarchal tools). The poster pretends to be concerned about safety and intimidation, yet their own Facebook profile pics endorses “queer ultra violence”. The content is archived here.

John Kimble
Managing Director

HEqual

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The people driving J4MB are working even harder as we approach the 7 May general election, than we have since the party’s launch in February 2013. I’m now based full-time in one of the three marginal seats near Nottingham which we’ll be contesting.

We need more funds at this critical time, to enable us to maximise the number of votes we’ll attract. Donations may be made by credit cards, debit cards, or PayPal, after clicking on the link below. All donations are put exclusively towards campaign-related costs. No individuals associated with the party draw any income from donations. The party treasurer is a qualified accountant, and ensures our full compliance with all regulations relating to the funding of political parties.

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Thank you for your support, and for helping us do all we can to make the future brighter for men and boys (and the women who love them).

Best wishes,

Mike Buchanan

E: mike@j4mb.org.uk

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I’ve just arrived in my comfortable room at a nice hotel in Cardiff. It’s being paid for by the BBC, as I’ll be appearing on the BBC1 programme The Big Questions tomorrow morning, 10:00 – 11:00.

I can’t divulge the identity of the other people who will be speaking, but the principal topic of the three which will be discussed is the issue of consent to sex, where the state is becoming ever more hostile towards men due to the influence of radical feminists, notably Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions.

I was campaigning along with Ray Barry and Josh Stone (18) outside Nottingham University for four hours this afternoon, engaging with students and other passers-by, and we were filmed for a documentary for a major broadcasting network. Both put in stellar performances, and afterwards Josh and I were interviewed separately and at length for the programme. We were told the documentary will be broadcast in the autumn.

At the end of our four hours we had ‘the cat litter incident’. Some background under the 23-second video. Please leave your comments there. Thanks.

It’s not all glamorous, this campaigning mullarky…

Our thanks to Claire for pointing us towards this gem. A feminist genius thinks I genuinely believe fat women photosynthesize. Enjoy.

Only two journalists have ever won a ‘Winston’ award. One was Quentin Letts, a talented columnist, and author of a number of celebrated books. The other was Peter Lloyd, a journalist with Mail Online. His recently-published book Stand By Your Manhood received very favourable reviews.

Peter deserves a second award for his blinding contribution to a piece on Radio 4 yesterday, about spousal maintenance. A judge had very reasonably ordered an ex-wife to get a job rather than rely on her ex-husband’s income for life.

Peter made the (female) divorce lawyer sound like a blithering idiot. Her use of the word ‘equality’ will make you laugh out loud, or kick the cat. But one of Peter’s sentences above all stood out for us:

A man needs marriage like a fish needs a bicycle.

Priceless.

Our thanks to P for this.

Around 90% of ‘street homeless’ people are men. It’s a scandal that in one of the richest countries on the planet, street homelessness exists. The average age of death of a homeless person is 43, compared with a life expectancy for non-homeless people of 73 years.

Two days ago, after parking in a car park, I walked towards the town centre. On the way a poorly-dressed and sad-looking man who I took to be roughly my own age (57) stopped me, and said:

Excuse me, sir, do you have a pound for a homeless man?

As it happened, I had no money on me, so I explained my position and apologised for not being able to give him anything. He thanked me, and went on his way.

Once in town, I drew some money from an ATM, with a view to giving him £5 if I were to see him again. Walking back to the car, I heard a very loud commotion emanating from a BT phone booth. It was the homeless man, smashing the phone into the sides of the booth, against the machine, and howling – HOWLING – with rage and pain. I have never in my life witnessed such an expression of extreme rage and pain. In his tirade I caught this:

Even if I were dying, I couldn’t f***ing call anybody!!!

It was then that I decided I won’t just campaign on men’s issues until the 2030 general election – when I’ll be 72 – but for as long as I have the health and strength to carry on.

I related the story of the homeless man in the course of a 30-minute radio interview this morning, and only just managed to hold back tears. Damn the state which consigns so many men to such appalling circumstances.

Our thanks to J for this. He writes:

Mike, is the tide turning? This judge deserves a knighthood, at least, for telling this women to get off her arse and earn a living rather than ponce off her ex-husband.

Another interesting piece from Belinda Brown. I think we can safely assume the silly headline wasn’t her idea.