Now we know why the Conservatives have committed to introduce the living wage by 2020, when the minimum wage will be £9 an hour. A Daily Mail article by Gerri Peev, Political Correspondent of the Daily Mail, is here.
George Osborne said this:
It’s right that with more women in the workplace than ever, we do all we can to support them. Two-thirds of those who will benefit from the new national living wage are women, which is something I hope everyone will celebrate.
We know from a report written in 2013 by Belinda Brown, a social anthropologist – ‘Getting women into the workplace encourages replacement, not growth’ – that female employment is a driver of male unemployment. Our blog piece on the matter has a link to that report.
The bottom line is this:
The living wage will drive up female employment and male unemployment, although for many years a majority of unemployed people have been men.
The Conservatives continue being an anti-male party, which is why we plan to contest the party’s top 20 marginal seats at the 2020 general election. Our strategy for that election is here.
Justice for Men & Boys 
there is no doubt leading politicians are pandering to the feminists,but the issue is that they merely follow up on men’s passive acceptance of double standards when it comes to dealing with female workers. It is ordinary men,who seem uncomfortable challenging the preferential treatment women get at the office. Untill they begin to speak up,the politicians will only isten to those who are politically organized. J4MB is definitely on the right track but it needs more support at the grassroots level.Men simply must no longer tolerate the perks and exemptions female workers are getting. Once perks for female workers are taken away,women will have a much harder time competing against male workers.Untill then,we will read headlines like from this article.
Next time if you think it is okay for a woman to wear a tanktop,while you wear a full suit,think again…that’s where the perks for women begin.With the absence of a formal dress code. And the perks continue all the way to the judiciary..They end with the absence of full accountability.These two issues have more in common than you are willing to admit…They are based on the very same principle: exemption from standard treatment. Men are now getting what they actually deserve,until their thinking changes.
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Given women an inch and they’ll take a yard, and then another, and another and another and so on and on and on, so I hope men get much, much more of what they actually deserve. That’s what is necessary to wake other men up and get them to vote for sanity. An awful lot of highly beneficial injustice can be meted out before 2020.
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As a middle-aged man who has not been able to find paid employment for more than five years I consider that the economy is active hostile to able-bodied, middle-aged, white ‘heterosexual’ men and our future lies in self-employment and permanent bachelordom. It is well within the ability of men to organise an alternative, informal male economy.
An understanding of our common group interests, and an instinct for tribal political thinking are a sine qua non for that.
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It is disgusting that Osborne trumpets his favouring of one half of the population as if it is a noble act. No one dares to ask why it is a good thing to subsidize women’s lives if women are equal and can do anything a man can do. But I don’t think this will encourage employers to hire more women, rather the short term impact is likely to be job losses for both men and women. In the long-term though, the effect will be to speed up automation and elimination of jobs which will overwhelmingly affect men.
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