Our thanks to David for this. A very interesting case. The man was awarded damages of £40,000 although he’d paid over £80,000 in maintenance to support a child which his ex-wife knew wasn’t his. So the ex-wife stole more than £40,000 from him. If this is ‘punishment’, I’m a sherry trifle.

The damages should have been £140,000, to start deterring women from this heinous crime.

On the positive side, I believe an award of this size is unprecedented. The highest award I can recall in previous cases was around £15,000. The judge in this case was a woman. We salute her for the £40,000 award, even though it should have been much higher.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending the day with two longstanding supporters, David and Jon. They were helping me with door-to-door leafleting in Kirkby in Ashfield and Sutton in Ashfield, the two largest towns in the constituency I’m campaigning in. We managed to put over 2,000 leaflets through doors, and found time for a JD Wetherspoon lunch too.

With only 7 weeks before the general election, we URGENTLY need more volunteers to help us distribute a large number of leaflets in the next two or three weeks. If you can afford to give us a day or half a day of your time, on a weekday or at the weekend, we’d be very grateful – and we’ll buy you lunch too. Please email me at mike@j4mb.org.uk. Thank you.

Madness.

Interesting.

Our thanks to K for this.

Oops.

Our thanks to K for loading this onto our YouTube channel. It was first broadcast a couple of days ago. A number of men made strong contributions to the debate, while the contributions of Kate Smurthwaite, a feminist ‘comedienne’, and Sally Peck, a Telegraph ‘journalist’, were truly woeful.

Followers of this blog understand that our longer-term strategy is to target a large number of marginal seats of the most anti-male major political party at general elections. On 7 May we’ll be standing against one Labour MP, and two Conservative MPs. There didn’t seem much point in targeting just one party with three candidates.

Earlier this evening N, a supporter and donor, emailed us an intriguing question:

How many votes will J4MB have to secure on 7 May, to count the election a success?

A very good question. To answer it, we’ve calculated how many votes we’d have had to divert from the people who were elected as MPs in 2010, in the three seats we’re contesting on 7 May, to deny them victories. The answer may surprise you:

Ashfield: Gloria De Piero (L) won by 192 votes. J4MB would have had to take 97 votes from her.

Broxtowe: Anna Soubry (C) won by 389 votes. J4MB would have had to take 195 votes from her.

Sherwood: Mark Spencer (C) won by 214 votes. J4MB would have had to take 108 votes from him.

The bottom line? J4MB would have had to take just 97 + 195 + 108 = 400 votes to change the results in all three seats in 2010. If this isn’t vindication of our strategy, we don’t know what could be.

Our thanks to J for pointing us to this tragic story. Some teenagers and young men urged a distressed man to jump off a tall building. He jumped. He was killed.

J asks the rhetorical question:

Mike, would they have been so cruel if it had been a woman in such distress?

Feminists claim that some women absorb the misogyny which is common in society, and this leads them to become (for example) men’s rights advocates. As with all feminist claims, it’s utter nonsense. The truth is that men and boys absorb the misandry which is common in society.

To think this man’s last moments on this earth were filmed for posterity, by people urging him to kill himself, makes my blood run cold. What has become of this country, when the potential suicide of a distressed man is considered entertainment by teenagers and grown men? Our moral compass is well and truly broken.

My thanks to R for pointing me to a piece posted two days ago on Erin Pizzey’s ‘White Ribbon’ website. From a sentence early in the piece I take it that it was originally written in 1998 or 1999.