People are sometimes surprised that J4MB has supporters who are women. We have many. Some are denied access to their beloved grandchildren, some have sons being failed by a highly feminised education system, and some have other reasons. Sue Parker Hall, a highly respected psychotherapist and counsellor, falls into the final category. She kindly offered a statement for publication on this website, explaining why she supports J4MB. It’s here.

My home town is Bedford, a throbbing metropolis which is so good they named a county after it. Today I travelled down to meet with a donor and others. Normally I’d have let the train take the strain, but the donor requested that I drive our battle van down and take a picture of him stood next to it. I was happy to oblige.

Long stretches of the M1 had 50mph speed limits, due to roadworks. On a number of occasions I saw a large poster of a woman in a hard hat, with a message something like:

My Mum works on this site.

Please drive carefully and don’t put her life in danger.

I can’t recall in my 35 years of driving ever seeing a woman engaged in roadworks, though I guess a few may exist. There must have been around 100 workers visible in the many miles after I’d first seen the poster. Needless to say, not one of them was a woman. Maybe women do such jobs in the summer, so long as the temperature doesn’t rise above 20C.

I digress. The van is performing very well, and I’m getting plenty of pedestrians and fellow drivers (men and women) giving me the thumbs-up sign. Not a single rude gesture so far. Three photos of the van taken this morning – here and here and here. The ‘father and son’ image in the final picture – the rear panels of the van – is the same as the A3 window poster image we have on one side of the leaflet we’re handing out to the public in the street, and posting door-to-door – here.

Will the van be vandalised? I don’t know, but you’d have thought feminists would have worked out by now that I – and others associated with J4MB – will not be intimidated by violence, threats of violence, vandalisation of property etc.

The sole reason we’re going to be campaigning outside the University of Nottingham on Saturday 14 March (11:30 – 14:00, outside the West Entrance, see earlier post) is in response to heavily soiled cat litter being hurled over the windscreen and bonnet of our battle van last Friday, when we were at that location. We originally had other plans for the day. If we’re faced with any intimidating tactics on 14 March, we’ll campaign at exactly the same spot again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

I refer you to the scene in the film Gandhi where row after row of Indian men defied the British Government’s Salt Tax by stepping forward to be struck down by British soldiers. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi:

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

Surely, by now, feminists have recognised that aggressive tactics will only lead to more opposition to their ideology? We’ll see, over the next nine weeks.

It’s been a fascinating exchange between Ally Fogg and William Collins concerning the gender gap in sentencing criminals to prison sentences. We’ll leave the last word to Ally Fogg, noting some interesting comments including #3 from William Collins and in particular #4 from Herbert Purdy.

Two weeks ago, on a bitterly cold day, in a windswept lay-by near Bedford, the father’s rights activist ‘Silver Surfer’ handed over the van he’d bought us in a windswept lay-by near Bedford. Our thanks to Ian Young, our candidate for the Sherwood constituency, for photographing the handover.

We’ve all surely seen and heard too much of the Labour party’s pink battle bus with its ‘Woman to Woman’ livery. It also has ‘Vote Labour’ on it, and given the party panders relentlessly to ghastly feminists such as Harriet Harman, it’s been suggested a more appropriate term might be:

Vote [word redacted].

Not to be outdone, we recently took delivery of a magnificent blue van, courtesy of a supporter, ‘Silver Surfer’, who for many years has been a supporter of Ray Barry’s Real Fathers for Justice. Today we picked it up after its J4MB livery and references to numerous men’s and boys’ human rights issues had been added.

Alex Britton, Political Editor of The Nottingham Post, interviewed me at some length about a week ago. Today he and a photographer came to see the newly-liveried van, and the result is this. The van has already attracted favourable comment, and many thumbs-up from passing drivers.

This afternoon I happened to stop for a few minutes in Bulwell, not far North of Nottingham. A lady I took to be of about 60 years of age tapped on the window. She was clearly in some distress, and tears were rolling down her cheeks. I got out of the van and after she’d calmed down, she explained that she and her husband hadn’t seen their beloved grand-children for over 10 years, and their son had come close to committing suicide on a number of occasions.

She’d read some of the text on the van and realised we were trying to help children, fathers, and grandparents. I explained that J4MB is a political party, the only one in the English-speaking world fighting against the state’s assaults on men’s, boys’ and girls’ human rights. She gave me a big hug, said, ‘Bless you for what you’re trying to do. Good luck!’, then went on her way.

I’m pleased to announce I’ve been approached by the International Business Times, a leading online newspaper with a strong reputation, to write a fortnightly column on men’s issues, and we’ve agreed terms. The publication has an estimated readership of 15.5 million people, and I expect my first article to be published next week. Their UK site is here and the Wikipedia entry on the paper is here. I look forward to working for them, and to increasing the number of people with an understanding of men’s and boys’ issues. Not forgetting girls, of course, denied access to their fathers.

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Our thanks to Guido Fawkes for this gem. Tomorrow evening we’ll be making an important announcement relating to these vehicles.

On last Sunday’s The Big Questions – a video of which is on our YouTube channel – I made the point that women are deemed by the criminal justice system to have so little moral agency, that if male criminals were sentenced as leniently as female criminals, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there.

Yesterday Ally Fogg posted a highly critical review of the basis of the claim, an article by William Collins (mra-uk). Collins has just published an outstanding response, with links both to his original article, and to Fogg’s critique. There’s also a link at the end to Collins’s critique of the highly gynocentric Corston Report. Enjoy.