Sandi Toxic, spokeswoman for the Women’s Equality Party, was on Question Time last night. The iPlayer file will be available for 11 months. Four of her contributions are worth listening to:
2:45 – 4:32
She responds to the question, ‘Is Labour now more electable under Jeremy Corbyn, than it was under Ed Miliband?’
20:44 – 21:50
She talks after John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, had apologised for remarks he’d made about the IRA’s contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
35:54 – 37:45
She responds to the question from a 17-year-old man, put to Liz Truss, a Conservative MP, ‘When I’m eligible to vote, why should I choose the Conservatives over Labour?’ It’s in this section she nominates herself for a Gormless Feminist of the Month award, with this gem:
Women are the majority, major beneficiaries of the welfare system. The real question that we have to be asking ourselves is, ‘Why are women the load bearers of austerity, and what are we going to do about it?’
Her diversionary ploy of stating, ‘The real question we have to be asking ourselves is…’ is straight out of the Feminist Guide to Media Manipulation. I’d have liked another panelist to say:
The real question is, ‘Why are women the main beneficiaries of the welfare system, when men pay 72% of the income tax collected in this country, £69 BILLION pounds more than women at the last count?’
The ploy was used by the lesbian radical feminist Bea Campbell in a BBC radio programme which I also contributed to, in January 2015. I was told the two of us would have a discussion, but in the event I was interviewed, cut off, then she was interviewed. Her contribution was simply appalling, and I critiqued it in the video’s description. Pleasingly, however, she referred to ‘The Buchanan phenomenon’. As we always say:
They don’t like it up ’em.
They do NOT like it up ’em!
45:28 – 46:52
In response to a question about the refugee crisis, Toxic utters exactly the sort of sanctimonious, self-righteous tosh you’d expect from her. I look forward to Toxic inviting a refugee family to live with her and her wife Debbie Toxic – and maybe some of Mrs and Mrs Toxic’s three children – on their houseboat. Then I might listen to what she has to say on the subject.
Justice for Men & Boys 
I think you’ve missed the key point here Mike. In inviting a Women’s Equality Party spokeperson onto the show in an official capacity, this means in order to meet its impartiality requirement the BBC are now obliged to invite someone from J4MB (or another men’s party I suppose). The case is particularly strong considering as your party has been established significantly longer than Toksvig’s).
Have you received an invite yet?
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Interesting point. Toxic was introduced as a ‘broadcaster and writer’, presumably to get the BBC round the problem you mention.
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Ahhh, i thought they’d messed up. Looks like they were just bending the rules to the absolute limit, same as every other day really. Did her party get any mention at all?
Whatever the case, I still think you’ve got a case to request an appearance. Didn’t she step down from her radio four position due to her political role?
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She mentioned her party several times.
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Also note. When the panel were discussing the refugee crisis, Liz Truss said that the British Authorities would give preference to the vulnerable women and children currently in the refugee camps. I would love, just once, for some one to challenge this ideological meme, ask her why she’s so keen to eliminate vulnerable men from her sympathies, or ask her for her evidence that there are are more vulnerable women than vulnerable men, or that the women are more vulnerable than the men. But as always, no one has the bottle to challenge it. And the hate goes on . . .
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PS. And Tim Stanley repeated the same meme later on in the debate, again without challenge. This really is a repeat of ‘The Titanic’. I can see women being welcomed into the UK, when perhaps more deserving, and more vulnerable, men will be left to suffer.
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