[Note added 31.3.15: The text below is the same as that first published about a week ago, but we’re re-publishing it because we know we’re getting a lot of new visitors to the site, due to the daily increases in ‘hits’ we’re seeing. Kind supporters have already donated over £3,000, and we require a further £5,900 in the next six days – by the end of Easter Monday, at the latest – to ensure we can place an order for A3 leaflets. They fold down into A5, half A4, in profile. They will be delivered by the Royal Mail to every household in the seats we’re contesting, in the fortnight before polling day, 7 May. Please enable us to do this. Thank you.]

The General Election on 7 May will be the best chance we’ll all have in the next 5 years to get men’s and boys’ issues placed fairly and squarely onto the political agenda, and we need YOU, our loyal and solid supporters, to help us in this, the final part of our planned campaign.

Plans are in place for campaigning up to polling day, but there’s one further thing we’d like to do, to maximise our votes. We’ve just posted a three-minute-long video on our YouTube channel, in relation to our last major fundraiser before the general election.

We’re seeking £9,000 by 6 April to enable us to place an order for 140,000 election leaflets, which will be delivered by the Royal Mail in the fortnight before polling day to every single household in the 3 Nottingham constituencies where our candidates are already engaged in the fight for justice for men and boys. 230,000 voters live in those households.

As many of you know, our grand design is to attack marginal seats to force the main parties to respond to our calls for justice for men and boys. We shall be contesting Gloria De Piero’s paper-thin 192 majority in Ashfield, attacking Anna Soubry’s slim 389 majority in Broxtowe, and hoping to have Mark Spencer’s paltry 214 majority in Sherwood for breakfast the morning after the election.

All we need is 400 votes to count the election a success, but we are massively confident of a lot more, judging from the wonderfully positive response we have had to our powerful, emotive leaflet – A3 size – with a poster on one side showing a grieving father and son separating for the final time. It’s being put up in the windows of the homes of people who support our cause, and causing people to engage with the issues.

The past two years have been staggeringly successful, and we recently achieved a massive breakthrough into the mainstream media. I have appeared on over 100 television and radio programmes including ITV’s This Morning, BBC’s The Big Questions, World Service, The Jeremy Vine Show, Woman’s Hour, and have had some wonderful high profile opportunities to challenge the very roots of radical feminism, and expose it for the man-hating ideology we all know it is.

Our 80 page manifesto has had over 107,000 individual downloads, and 60 of my articles have been published by our steadfast cousins at A Voice for Men, who continue to be wonderfully supportive of our work here in the UK. The biggest recent breakthrough has been to secure a fortnightly column in International Business Times, the massively influential online news service with an equally massive following. My first article, about positive discrimination for women in corporate boardrooms, has already been published. The next article will be on male suicide.

The J4MB bandwagon is rolling, and I appeal to all of you to donate as generously as you can towards the final push this year, whilst we have the chance to make a difference in 2015. The link is here. All we need is for 90 people to give us £100 and we’ll be home and dry, more than that and we’ll get there faster, but please give whatever you can afford to give us that power in our elbow to make this happen.

The battle for men’s and boys’ human rights is now well and truly underway. Whatever you can afford will be a step towards victory in the battle for the human rights of men and boys (and the women who love them). We believe it is a just battle, and we hope you will provide us with the wherewithal to maximise our votes in 2015.

Thank you so much for your past donations. My sincerest thanks in advance for your continued support at this crucial time for our cause. We’ll be posting the sum total of donations received on the J4MB website every two days.

Yours sincerely,

Mike Buchanan

Party Leader

Justice for Men and Boys
(and the women who love them)

P.S. You can donate using PayPal, credit card, or debit card, or – if you are a UK resident – you can make donations directly into the J4MB bank account, which will avoid us having to pay PayPal commissions. Please put your name in the ‘Reference’ box if you do this, and email me mike@j4mb.org.uk to tell me you’ve made a donation. The account details are as follows:

Account: Justice for men & boys

Account number: 54880968

Sort code: 309054

About four weeks ago I was commissioned by International Business Times, a leading international online news service, to provide some balance in their output of pieces about gender-related matters. I would be free to write on any matters I wished, in a fortnightly column. The website already had two feminist commentators on gender-related matters, including Laura Bates of The Everyday Sexism Project, twice a winner of our ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time that a men’s rights advocate anywhere in the world had been given a regular platform by the mainstream media.

I was commissioned to write pieces on men’s issues, with an open-ended contract, and I was looking forward to providing pieces for years to come. I started off with surely uncontroversial pieces. The first was on gender balance in corporate boardrooms. Nobody in the world is challenging the evidence presented by Campaign for Merit in Business, demonstrating a causal link between artificially driving up female representation on boards, and corporate financial decline. I presented the evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, yet the government continues to bully major companies into taking on more female directors, with the threat of legislated gender quotas. The second piece was on suicide, the leading cause of death of men under 50 in the UK. The male:female suicide differential rose from 1.7:1 in 1983 to 3.5:1 in 2013, and the government is not only doing nothing about the matter, it is actively driving the high male suicide rate, as the article explains.

A day or two after the second article was published, I received the following email from my (male) Commissioning Editor, and it’s reproduced here with his kind permission:

Hi Mike,

Hope all’s good with you.

We’ve had a chat as a senior editorial group and unfortunately we think it’s best to terminate the relationship we have with you.

Your articles for us have been balanced and backed by evidence, which is fine. But we realise you have courted controversy for other articles you have written, and we feel this isn’t the best image for the IBT brand going forward.

Please understand that we will continue to seek balance in our coverage of gender issues, and we will keep a close eye on the progress of J4MB. We may well be interested in doing an interview with you in the lead-up to May’s election.

You will, of course, be paid in full for what you have written for us.

I hope you understand our position on this, and, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to raise them with me. Good luck for the election.

If ever you wanted proof that both Labour and the Conservatives are feminist-driven parties today, this should provide it. It goes without saying, of course, that the Lib Dems are. Commentary under the video, please leave comments there rather than here. Thank you.

We have the first response to our invitation for people to explain why they’re supporting J4MB – or other matters they wish to be published on this website – and donating £1.00 per word towards our £9,000 fundraiser. Tim Alford is one of the sterling people helping us distribute leaflets door-to-door. More volunteers are needed urgently, please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk if you can help.

Tim is a professional guitarist, and he blogs as ‘Pesky Tim’. He’s particularly exercised about genital mutilation, and he’s just published this video. He wrote the song – Gods’s children gotta bleed – and appears in the video. He kindly agreed to my suggestion that he write a piece on why he’d written the song, and why he’s supporting J4MB, donating £1.00 per word to J4MB for publishing it. The remainder of this piece consists of Tim’s words, and we thank him for the much-needed £205 donation.

I decided to write the song after reading about this case. Grace Adeleye, a 67-year-old nurse, received a suspended sentence after carrying out genital mutilation of Goodluck, an innocent baby boy, in the most horrific, perverted, and torturous way imaginable, for £100. She admitted to performing over 1,000 such ‘procedures’. It’s quite possible others may have died, but in the communities where she plied her gruesome trade it’s possible that some parents would not report such a death to the authorities.

I wonder what would become of a man who had mutilated over 1,000 girls, finally caught for killing one? In fact the detailed timeline of this story is even more disgusting than first appears, because the parents phoned Adelaye a few hours after the assault, worried that Goodluck was looking extremely ill and quiet, asking if they should take him to hospital. She talked them out of taking him to hospital, obviously fearing that her ‘moonlighting’ sideline to her NHS job might be discovered. Monster!

I am supporting J4MB because they are the only UK party who do not specifically exclude infant males from the fundamental Human Rights to genital autonomy and bodily integrity that are afforded to all females and all adults.

On May 7 I’ll be standing against Gloria De Piero, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, in Ashfield.

The seat had historically been a safe Labour seat, and Geoff Hoon used to secure 10,000+ majorities. In 2010 former Sky presenter Gloria De Piero was selected from an all-women shortlist, and retained the seat with only 192 votes more than her Lib Dem rival, Jason Zadrozny, a popular local politician.

Zadrozny has been arrested, and suspended by the Lib Dems, over historical sex abuse allegations – here – which he vehemently refutes.

A £100 donation this morning – our thanks to Graham S, a multiple donor over the past two years – has brought the sum total raised towards our £9,000 fundraiser to £3,065. With just nine days to go before the deadline of 6 April – the next day, we have to order A3 leaflets for every household in the constituencies we’re standing in – we urgently need to get the ball rolling again.

Sometimes we invite donors to write a piece explaining why they’ve donated large sums, for example numbCruncher, who’s donated £1,000 on two occasions, the last one being a few days ago.

My thanks to the Party Treasurer for a great suggestion. If you’d like a piece published on this website, explaining why you support J4MB – or indeed anything you want to write about – we’ll publish it (assuming the material is acceptable) in return for a donation of £1.00 per word. Please email your piece to mike@j4mb.org.uk, and let me know if you’d like the piece to go out under a pseudonym. Once the piece has been cleared, you can make your donation here. Thank you for your support.

Antonia Hoyle, a noted journalist, has emailed me the following. Please email her directly if you can help her with her piece.

I’ve been asked by my editor at a national newspaper to write a piece about men who have been sexually harassed by female bosses at work. I’m looking for men who have been in this situation and are prepared to speak out about it to interview (they would need to be named, and ideally prepared to have their picture taken). If this applies to you and you would like more information please do get in touch – I can pay a fee to interviewees on publication of the piece and read back all quotes. Anyone who would like more information is welcome to email me – Antonia@antoniahoyle.com.

So many contenders for this award every month. With polling day just six weeks away, we decided to select a radical feminist who works near the constituencies in which we’re standing. Melanie Jeffs runs the Nottingham Women’s Centre. Her certificate explains why she won the award:

Well deserved:

We’re not normally fans of petitions – men simply aren’t inclined to make a ‘contribution’ to a petition, even if it takes only seconds to sign – but this is one we can wholeheartedly support, and we warmly thank N for bringing it to our attention. It’s a petition seeking the resignation of Alison Saunders, the odious radical feminist Director of Public Prosecutions, and there are only four days left to sign it.

Please join me in signing it. Now. Thank you.