Great news. We’re admirers of Bobby Smith, and we wish him well standing against David Cameron. It’s encouraging to see a new political party being launched. We can no longer say we’re the only political party in the English-speaking world fighting for men’s human rights.

I’m delighted to report that our fundraiser reached its £6,000 target in the early hours of this morning. I’ve placed an order with our printer, and all 95,000 households in the Ashfield and Broxtowe constituencies will receive our final A3 leaflet (with a new ‘appeal to voters’) in the two to three weeks before the election on 7 May. I should like to thank all the generous supporters who enabled this to happen, many new donors among them.

One of the final donations was from a new donor, who wrote this to me in an email:

I could only afford ten pounds, but figured it was something practical I could do to help raise awareness of men’s issues; I spent 11 years in a horribly abusive relationship, with no resources available for me or my kids – and now another four years fighting in a system that can be summarised as “from her, no evidence is required – from him, no evidence is sufficient”.

Good luck. It’ll be a long game.

Nic.

The other day we had a donation of £250 from a new supporter, John Elliot. I asked him if he’d like to write a piece about why he’s supporting J4MB, and this was his response:

“It was 1955, and the sun shone on the houses that were our homes. I played outside and enjoyed the world of a five-year-old.

From a few doors away, a girl of 13 started coming to our house, presumably out of a teenager’s fascination with small children. I can’t remember what we did, but one day I put my hand up her skirt from behind. She stiffened and then relaxed as the frisson of pleasure took over her body. After that we engaged in rudimentary sexual activity regularly in the back garden in a den that we had made.

I was too young to have proper intercourse. She was frustrated with my pathetic efforts and, accordingly, one day she calmly got up and went to the back door of our house. My mother came to the door and the girl complained that I had sexually interfered with her. In the background, I hopped up and down, thinking that now I was in big trouble. My mother didn’t understand, or pretended not to, and the girl went off down the garden path, defeated. My mother took me into the house and told me not to do it again. It was one of the few good things she did for me.

That day I learned that:

– Females lie brazenly about sexual matters

– They believe that sex is something bad that males do to females

– They believe that they are absolved from all complicity in such matters

The years passed, and I suffered from child abuse. I was frequently beaten by my father. I was terrorised every day. I spent the whole of my childhood in fear. My mother displayed the typical female characteristic of passivity. When I tried to talk to her about it she just defended my father. Women frequently defend abusive men. Males suffer more violence than females, mainly from other men of the nasty variety.

When I grew up I was exhausted. I couldn’t do my schoolwork, and couldn’t work at a job. I just wanted a big rest in life. When you suffer child abuse, you don’t grow up to become Rudolph Valentino. Your ability to make friends and have girlfriends is all but destroyed. And so I was given a bad time by women who didn’t want to hear that I was not feeling well. They wanted me to sweep them off their feet. They couldn’t have behaved more nastily.

The years passed, and I was getting nowhere with anything. I approached Social Services telling them that I lacked self-esteem, and could they help me with it, so that I could have some sort of social life? The social workers were feminists and gave me ‘social skills’ therapy in order to help me with my low self-esteem.  The idea is that if you learn the right way of approaching women, you will gain confidence.  It didn’t do me any good.  I already knew social skills.  I was just too shy to put them into effect.

One of them said, ‘I’m a feminist and a very angry one!’ I should have picked up on this warning and fled from there, but I stayed because I needed help. One day, at one of the sessions, I had had enough. I told them that I was sick and tired at the way their feminism kept interfering with my therapy on an ongoing basis. I told them I wanted it to stop. They terminated my sessions.

A few months later I received a letter from the psychological Forensic Service. Psychiatric hospitals have forensic psychology departments which help people who have broken the law. I hadn’t broken the law, however, and was referred maliciously to the service by the feminists. This is the kind of thing that has been happening to men in silence. This example is a subsection of the false sexual allegation by women of men such as in false allegations of rape. I was falsely accused of being anti-women.

Abuse of men by feminists occurs in the Health System and not just in the family and criminal courts. Men are in fear of talking about these kind of matters openly for fear of being seen as guilty of the allegations made against them.

The feminists had referred me, behind my back, saying that I was anti-women. I saw the letter they sent. I went to the meeting and explained the situation to the psychologist. Luckily he understood, and said I wasn’t in need of therapy.

I then went to County Hall to look at my Social Worker records. I couldn’t believe what I read. They had written that at the next session ‘I’d wanted a woman to f..k.’ I was devastated and felt a sexual feeling rise in my groin at what they had done to me.

The thing is if you have something really horrendous done to you, which is a lie and is designed to get you into the worst trouble, you will likely have a reaction such as a sexual feeling arising in your body. It happens because you realise that someone or some people have tried to destroy you. This attests to an area of suffering by men which is not allowed to be talked about. This is probably the kind of thing that happened to men when they were sentenced to death.

I left and went to a solicitor. The solicitor wrote to County Hall. Their reply came, and they didn’t admit anything. I was screwed. Down through the years this caused me great anguish.

But I knew what was in women’s minds for certain.

More time passed and I was living alone and broken in unpleasant accommodation.

Thatcher came and went, and then a huge liberal onslaught started. The media were attacking men, day in day out, year in year out. Television is a staple diet of the lonely, and I had to put up with these insults every time I switched the thing on.

I started writing letters to people in power. I wrote to the television companies, to their complaints agencies, to my MP, to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, to the Home Office, to the heads of parties and many others which I can’t remember. The result was always the same. They would quash my complaints. I came to the conclusion that I had tried talking with these people and they weren’t prepared to talk. I was dealing with people who didn’t believe in freedom of speech. They didn’t believe in letting men have a right of reply on the media. They were indoctrinated. They were the fascist left. Now, even the right is feminised.

All that I did, and all that I went through, I went through by myself. There was no-one to turn to. All the anxiety that I underwent was done on my own. So many years, so much pain. Now, I’m in my twilight years, friendless, and having achieved nothing in life. I haven’t had a career or family. The biggest sadness in my life is that I never had children.

One day, out of nowhere, J4MB sprang, up and suddenly I was reading stories by people who had been through the mill like myself. Mike Buchanan was even appearing on a hostile media, was even standing for office. I can’t express how relieved I was. I could have cried except for the fact that men tend not to cry. But I sobbed inside!

Now, I’m looking forward to more counter ideology making it into the media. Especially after the election. I suspect that the majority of the people of this country are fed up with feminists and would like to see them hurled out of power.

We mustn’t feel sorry for feminists. They have shown that they have absolutely no mercy for us. To them we are just disposable drones that they wipe their feet on. We should take the initiative on a constant basis. It is right that we back up our statements with facts and statistics.

For the first time in life, there is hope. Thank you, J4MB.

John Elliot”

John Carter has been a regular and generous donor over the past two years, from soon after J4MB was launched. He’s just sent this:

Hi Mike,

Just sent the last bit of money I have spare until pay day. A massive £15.31 to the J4MB bank account. Good luck raising the rest of the funds. I just want at least some men and women to have a chance to vote for a party that values everyone.

In my area I am disenfranchised in the coming election because there is no national party willing to stand up against the feminist agenda which is destroying society. My rights to a voice are nearly gone. So I will back you until the mainstream recognise the need to stop this one-sided blindness in politics and stop trying to disenfranchise men and boys from having a fair chance in life.

Best wishes,

John Carter

Daniel Millet is a donor, and he’s just emailed me this:

I support J4MB because when I called the police, out of desperation, to try to get some help for my wife’s violence against myself and my son they came out, told me to leave without ever taking my statement, and then listened to a completely made up story from my wife. I was then charged with domestic violence. I called the police to report her. They did not even speak to me.

I did not see my child for two months after that and nearly gained a criminal record. Luckily I was able to prove my innocence and hence I was found innocent in this court where you are presumed guilty and denied every constitutional right.

Every single thing I owned in this world was taken from me, because I called the police on her to try to stop her domestic violence. The simple gifts my mother gave me as a child were stolen from me, never to be seen again. My own child was taken from me and my fatherhood removed.

Even the home I still somehow ‘own’ and get to pay for was taken from me because I called the police on her. And there is no recourse. I have no way to correct this injustice. No one cares and no one will listen. The assumption is that I am a man so I deserve it. And this is just a drop in the bucket of the misandry that has destroyed my life and the life of my son.

Our culture, in a twisted attempt to remove sexism, has ceased to look into the character of those around us. We have ceased to look at the circumstances or the actual actions of real people. Rather everyone is assigned into a group and we treat them according to the status of victim, oppression, privilege, and other nonsense that we assign to the entire group.

Our culture is trying to correct sexism by engaging in the most incredible levels of sexism we have ever seen.

I support Mike Buchanan and the Justice for Men & Boys party so that my son can grow up in a world where he is judged by the content of his character and the actions that he takes. Not judged purely on the groups people assign to him. So people will see him as a human being. Not as a ‘privileged white male’.

Thank you Mike for speaking out against the sexism we face every day.

Daniel Millet

I asked Daniel if he was happy that I attribute the piece to him, or whether he wanted to suggest a pseudonym. He replied:

You can use my real name. Thanks for taking a stand. Perhaps my son will not have to face a world where he can be abused by a woman and then punished for it when he tries to make it stop. Perhaps he can live in a world where someone cares. Everyone in my life knows my story. They all just shrug their shoulders.

They tell me that my son and I are just collateral damage in the great march to ethical perfection we will achieve once we have herded everyone into the correct groups of oppression and are punishing all the groups of privilege adequately. Neither of us are real people even when I’m speaking to friends in person.

I can hardly believe that this is the world I live in. It’s insane.

Thanks for your efforts,

Daniel

Alan Bowker was one of the first J4MB supporters, and it was a pleasure meeting him before my debate with Julie Bindel at Durham University early last year. He’s also been a generous donor, and he sent the following in response to my request that he write a piece about why he supports J4MB:

“I support J4MB because it cares for our children by supporting real equality of gender rather than faux-feminist inequality. I’m tired of listening to politicians and the CPS (e.g. Alison Saunders, Yvette Cooper, Theresa May, Vera Baird) incessantly portray males as abusers, when every one of them refuses to acknowledge the fact that women abuse children and babies at twice the rate men do. Where is the protection of our children by means of equality of prosecution?”

We’ve just put in three long days door-to-door leafleting in the Ashfield constituency, and delivered over 10,000 leaflets. Our thanks to numbCruncher (our #1 donor), Tony, Tim, Jon, and a new volunteer, 30-something Ewan Jones, who travelled over 150 miles to join us for two days. We much enjoyed his company, and thank him for his commitment.

We have a little under 10,000 leaflets left to deliver door-to-door by Sunday 19 April. During the fortnight after that, the Royal Mail leaflets will be delivered to every household in the constituencies we’re contesting. The ‘appeal to voters’ in the Royal Mail leaflets is somewhat different to that in the current leaflets, so the combined impact on potential voters should be a powerful one, and lead to a substantial increase in our votes.

We urgently need more volunteers to help us deliver the remaining leaflets over the coming two weeks. Please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk or call me 07967 026163 if you can help, even if it’s only for a few hours. Thank you.

Our thanks to Tim for this. The state is driving men into homelessness on the most absurd grounds. The average homeless person loses 30 years of life expectancy, and 87% of street homeless are men.

I’ve been engaged in three long days of door-to-door leafleting in the Ashfield constituency, and I thank four supporters warmly for all the efforts they made alongside me. Two people travelled 150+ miles to join us. More on leafleting tomorrow.

Ian Young has decided to withdraw as the J4MB candidate for the Sherwood constituency, citing personal reasons. We were sorry to learn of his decision, we thank him for all his contributions to the campaigning in the three constituencies, and we wish him and his family our best wishes for the future.

Ian’s decision leaves Ray Barry standing in Broxtowe, and myself in Ashfield.

Our current fundraiser – the last before the general election – had a target of £9,000, mostly to fund A3 leaflets with the J4MB poster of a father and son separating for the final time. We’ve been pleased to note how many people have been putting the posters in their windows. Following Ian’s departure we’ve lowered the target to £6,000. £4,205 has already been donated by generous supporters, leaving £1,795 still to raise.

The ‘appeal to voters’ on the leaflets we want to print with the proceeds from the fundraiser will be rather different to that in the current leaflets – more emotionally impactful, in the final two weeks before polling day. The leaflets will be delivered by the Royal Mail to every household in our two constituencies. We need to maximise our votes on 7 May.

It will be a long five years before the 2020 general election, at which we plan to field 50+ candidates, so let’s get this final push going.

The bottom line? We must raise a minimum of £1,795 in the next 26 hours, so that we can place an order with the printer first thing Tuesday morning. Please enable this key element in our campaign by making a donation here. Thank you.

Our thanks to John Elliot for his generous donation of £250, which has taken us to £4,107 on the way to our target of £9,000. The fundraiser ends in four days’ time, at midnight on Monday 6 April – Easter Monday – and you can make a donation here.

John has an interesting and moving life story to relate, which we hope to publish in the next day or two.