My thanks to K for pointing me to this. It’s already had over 130,000 signatures, and has a target of 200,000. There’s a facility for adding a comment. I’ve added one to the effect that the BBC has been a feminist propaganda broadcaster for decades, ignoring problems faced by men and boys. I invite you to sign it, and maybe leave your own comment too. Thank you.

Dan Perrins is an inspiring Canadian men’s right advocate. AVfM has just published this.

[Note added 8.5.15: This piece has just been published by A Voice for Men, the most-visited and most influential men’s rights advocacy website in the world – it’s here. The comment section should be worth reading.]

A Conservative government with a small majority has resulted from yesterday’s general election, in large part due to the collapse of the Labour vote in Scotland, where the Scottish Nationalist Party secured 56 of the 59 seats. The leaders of Labour, Lib Dems, and UKIP have resigned.

Around 05:30 today, the results were declared in the two seats where Ray Barry and I were standing. I secured 153 votes, Ray 63, and I’d like to thank the good people who voted for us.

While more votes would have been welcome, we achieved what we set out to achieve, which was to use the democratic process to break the conspiracy of silence about J4MB and men’s human rights, and show up the hypocrisy and blatant gynocentrism of the mainstream political parties.

This was perfectly illustrated in the acceptance speech of my opponent, Gloria de Piero, who said:

Whether you voted for me, or Helen, or Philip, or Simon, I promise to represent you all, and work tirelessly for you all.

So it’s only men in Ashfield for whom she won’t work tirelessly over the next five years.

On the bright side, at least she isn’t the new Minister for Women and Equalities, and Labour’s efforts to present themselves as a party for only half the population has clearly backfired on them. Miliband has suffered a crushing defeat and resigned, Harriet Harman has announced her resignation as deputy leader, save only for being a caretaker leader pending the party finding someone else to lead it, and I don’t think we’ll be seeing much more of her. She is a spent force, as is her feminist ideology.

Nick Clegg has gone from the mainstream political scene, his brief flirtation with power over, and many of his feminist sympathizing fellow Lib Dems are now without a seat at all. Most notable amongst these is Vince Cable, that white knight proponent of positive discrimination whose efforts to get more women onto the corporate gravy train of unearned seats on the boards of our major companies was contemptible.

David H pointed out that J4MB has only one fewer MP than UKIP, a party which has been around for 20 years, and which secured about 10% of the national vote yesterday. Its leader, Nigel Farage, has honourably resigned because he was unable to get elected. He is a man of his word.

While we expected to secure a higher number of votes, we must recall this was our first general election, fought with very limited funds. At least we were able to present a picture of the state’s widespread assaults on the human rights of men and boys to the electorate, getting the state to pay for the delivery of 95,000 leaflets bearing J4MB’s message, and we achieved the most astonishing breakthrough into the mainstream media which could never have happened other than by us standing for election. J4MB is fighting a just cause, and at this stage justice cannot be measured by popularity In terms of voting numbers.

It’s difficult to know what impact, if any, the mainstream media had on our results. On the one hand, national newspapers and magazines have either not mentioned us, or have been critical without – significantly – challenging the analyses or policies in our manifesto. That said, the comment streams in articles by the Telegraph, Independent, Mail, Express, and even the Guardian and Observer, have been highly supportive of J4MB, and many thousands of people have been led to our website after reading these articles. That must have caused the biased hacks to reassess their approach and thinking.

The behaviour of the BBC with respect to our standing in two seats near Nottingham was scandalous and we know they received many formal complaints, and emails to their senior executives. As far as BBC television is concerned, the Sunday Politics show broadcast not long before the election consisted only of an interview of me by a young radical feminist. An interview of Ray Barry didn’t appear on the show.

BBC Radio Nottingham didn’t invite Ray to the Broxtowe hustings, and for the Ashfield hustings the BBC vetted an all-female audience, who asked questions mainly about women’s issues. There wasn’t a single question about men’s issues in the hour-long programme, broadcast live. The presenter was a young Guardian-reading feminist, and I was placed on the panel between the two female candidates. The most insightful article about the fiasco was published by Breitbart.

A prime objective from standing in this election was to raise the public awareness of J4MB, and thereby the assaults on the human rights of men and boys. We’ve had an enormous increase in our blog hits today, the hit rate surpassing even that of yesterday. Hundreds of people have downloaded the manifesto, and we’ve secured a number of new party members. (I invite you to join them, and thereby help us fund the deposits of 50+ candidates in 2020. You can find details of party membership here. You can make single donations or set up monthly donations through PayPal, here.)

We’ll be taking some time to review why all the positive engagement we had with the voters on the streets and on the doorsteps of Ashfield and Broxtowe didn’t translate into higher vote numbers, but when you consider the earthquake of a Tory overall majority when all the media pundits were already carving up the power in a supposed hung parliament, it seems clear that people used their valuable vote to see off a far bigger perceived threat from the coalition of the left that was threatening to take the country back to the dark days of class division of the 1970s.

We believe there is another class division afoot now in Britain, against men, and you can be assured we shall be carrying on, constantly reviewing our strategy, adapting and seeking every way we can to keep men’s and boys’ issues to the fore. Public awareness of our cause is increasing steadily, and by the next general election in 2020 we will ensure it is much higher than even today. Our determination to secure justice for men and boys (and the women who love them) is stronger than ever.

I‘d like to thank all the people who’ve supported us from the outset. People have helped with manifesto development, donations, provided support of various kinds, donated goods and services, and tramped the streets in recent weeks, delivering 30,000 leaflets door-to-door. I look forward to the coming years with optimism and enthusiasm, and to a successful 2020 general election.

Yours sincerely,

Mike Buchanan

Party leader

I was recently engaged in a hustings run by BBC Radio Nottingham. The producers invited (and vetted) an all-female audience, the questions focused mainly on women’s issues, not one question was asked about men’s (or boys’) issues. I was placed on the panel between the two female candidates, and the presenter was a Guardian reading feminist. This is typical of the BBC’s idea of ‘gender balance’. My thanks to a supporter for pointing me to an insightful piece just published by Breitbart – here.

We’re getting a lot of new visitors to this website in the light of the forthcoming general election – voting starts in just 29 hours’ time – and many of these new visitors will be unaware that Paul Elam is the founder of A Voice for Men, an American website, by a considerable distance the most visited and influential men’s rights advocacy website in the world.

He’s just sent this letter to the US Department of Defence, and we look forward to their response. As always with AVfM pieces, be sure to check out the comments section. If you subscribe to AVfM (it’s free) for a month, and read every piece published in that month, along with the associated comments, you’ll understand far more about gender politics – which blights the lives of countless men and boys across the world – than 99% of the population. We recommend you do so.

My thanks to the supporter who’s suggested I post one of the earliest posts on our YouTube channel, my appearance before the House of Commons inquiry on Women in the Workplace in November 2012 for another organisation I lead, Campaign for Merit in Business.

In the wake of the recent highly successful International Conference on Men’s Issues, which we co-hosted with A Voice for Men, we are repeating our invitation to people concerned about the assaults on men’s and boys’ human rights to become party members. Monthly subscriptions from party members are the financial lifeblood of our political party.

When J4MB was launched in February 2013, we had no basis for forecasting how well, if at all, we would be received by the general public. At that time, the prevailing public conviction was that feminists pursue gender equality, in stark contrast to what was demonstrably true.

Only a small minority of women are feminists. They seek gender supremacy, regardless of the impact on men, women, boys, girls, nuclear families, public institutions, and wider society. They are driven by misandry (the hatred of men). If anyone should doubt the truth of these assertions, we invite them to read our 2015 general election manifesto. It explored 20 areas where the human rights of men and/or boys are assaulted by the actions and inactions of the state, usually to advantage women and/or girls. There are no areas in which the state assaults the human rights of women and/or girls specifically.

The 20 areas are:

Abortion

Foetal alcohol syndrome

Genital mutilation

Fatherlessness, restoring strong families

Education

Employment

Access to children after family breakdowns

Domestic violence

Sexual abuse

Armed Forces veterans’ mental health issues

Homelessness

Suicide

Criminal justice system

Paternity fraud

Anonymity for suspected sexual offenders

Divorce

Healthcare provision

Political representation

State interference in director appointments

Expectation of retirement years

The assaults on men and boys are often led or enabled by feminists in influential positions e.g. Theresa May MP (Prime Minister, formerly Home Secretary) and Alison Saunders (Director of Public Prosecutions). Most of the assaults, however, are led by men with no concern for the wellbeing of men and boys as a class.

J4MB is the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys on many fronts. We are reliant on donors to cover the party’s costs, and nobody connected with the party draws any personal income from donations.

Supporters (including donors) tell us we can be proud of what we’ve achieved in three and a half years. Donors have sent sums ranging from £2 to £2,000. We’ve had over 100 appearances on mainstream television and radio – here. Countless newspaper, magazine, and blog pieces have been written about us. The tone of the reporting has usually been challenging and often antagonistic, which we expected, but we have also been surprised by the interest we have triggered in some of the most unlikely people, and we can be sure that we have broken the blanket belief that men’s and boys’ issues are either non-existent, or unimportant. The comments streams following online articles have been very supportive of J4MB and what we’re seeking to achieve.

Our long-term strategy is to challenge the party in power (or parties, in the event of a coalition) because only they have the power to reverse anti-male legislation and policy directions.

We’re working towards the 2020 general election, in which we plan to field candidates in the 20 most marginal seats won by the Conservatives in 2015 – the background to our strategy is here. Thanks to existing party members, we have funding streams in place to pay for those 20 candidates’ £500 deposits.

We intend to significantly reduce the Conservatives’ prospects of being re-elected in 2020, in order to raise public awareness of men’s and boys’ issues. In coalition with the Liberal Democrats from 2010, and in sole power from 2015, the Conservatives have been no less anti-male than the Labour party, in some areas going even further than the Labour administrations of 1997-2010.

We’re going to raise our game in a number of areas, which will require a stronger financial base. We wish to increase our membership base in order to meet increasing campaigning costs, and to help build a ‘fighting fund’ for the 2020 general election.

We invite you to become a party member. It’s the most efficient way to demonstrate your support of our work, reducing the need for the periodic appeals upon which we relied in the past. It will also free up valuable time for political campaigning, which would otherwise be spent on fundraising.

We’ve established a range of membership grades, ranging from monthly sums of £5.00 (16 pence per day) to £100.00 (£3.28 per day):

Membership grade                  Monthly donation                   

Bronze                                                        £5.00

Silver                                                          £10.00

Gold                                                            £25.00

Platinum                                                    £50.00

Diamond                                                    £100.00

Members will receive a signed membership certificate, one of the A3 leaflets we were distributing during the 2015 general election – the window poster element is here – and two individually numbered silicone wristbands.

We’d prefer you set up a Standing Order payable directly into the J4MB account, thereby ensuring the full sum of your donations go to J4MB. Our account details:

Account name: Justice for Men & Boys

Sort code: 309054

Account number: 54880968

IBAN: GB08LOYD30905454880968

BIC: LOYDGB21090

Monthly donations can be set up through PayPal, although (small) commissions are taken from donations made that way:

If you want to put in place a regular donation of another amount, we would of course be deeply grateful.

Please email me mike@j4mb.org.uk with the membership grade you’ve settled on, the name you’d like printed on your membership certificate, and your address. Thank you for your support.

Best wishes,

Mike Buchanan

PARTY LEADER

How appropriate that a comedienne should help set up the Women’s Equality Party, which will field candidates for the first time in 2020. One obvious question at this stage:

Which of their many privileges will women be prepared to give up, in order to achieve gender equality?

If you don’t think women (as a class) are privileged compared with men (as a class), you need to read our election manifesto. We can be very sure Ms Toksvig’s new party won’t be seeking equality for women with men, in respect of:

– access to children following family breakdowns. It’s overwhelmingly fathers who are denied access to children following family breakdowns, because family courts fail to ensure them access.

– reproductive rights. Men have none, and are the common victims of paternity fraud.

– punishment for damaging embryos and foetuses with alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Women can damage embryos and foetuses while knowing of risks, and face no consequences. Foetal alcohol syndrome is the #1 cause of avoidable mental incapacitation in the world.

– punishment for committing crimes. Six out of seven men in British prisons wouldn’t be there if men were treated with the same leniency as women.

– genital mutilation. Permitted only for males.

– education. Boys highly disadvantaged by an education system geared to girls.

– domestic violence victim support. Virtually none available for men.

– punishment for committing sexual abuse of men and children. The criminal justice system has virtually no interest in pursuing female abusers.

– homelessness. 87% of street homeless are men.

– suicide. Men are 3.5 times more likely as women to commit suicide. #1 cause of death of men under 50.

– work-related deaths. 95% of those who die from work-related accidents are men.

– divorce settlements. Men are robbed of their wealth they’ve worked hard for, often over decades.

– cancer screening programmes. £250 million pounds p.a. spent on national screening programmes for early detection of female-specific cancers. As many men die of prostate cancers as women die of breast cancer. No national screening programmes for any male-specific cancers.

– prospective parliamentary candidate shortlists. The only single-gender shortlists are for women – Gloria De Piero MP, Ashfield, was selected from one – although the prime reason a minority of MPs are women has long been known. Far more men than women seek political careers.

Appalling. Can anyone doubt that if a man attacked an aspiring female model in this way, he’d have received a lengthy prison sentence? William Collins has shown that if men were sentenced as leniently as women by the criminal justice system, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there. A link to his article is in our blog piece which posed the question, Why are women above the law?.

Gloria De Piero MP was selected from an all-women shortlist, an abomination in a democracy. She’s the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities i.e. she’s a radical feminist fighting for the advantaging of women and girls at the expense of men and boys. She’s also the winner of two of our ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards, the explanations are on her award certificates, here and here.

I invite the good citizens of Ashfield to force Ms De Piero to find a new line of work after polling day, now just five days away. She almost lost this historically safe Labour seat in May 2010, retaining it with a majority of only 192 votes against the Lib Dem candidate.