We repeat our invitation to join us at the anti-MGM protest in Parliament Square, on Thursday, 19 November. We’ll be supporting Men Do Complain, an anti-MGM campaign organisation which has just posted a blog piece on the protest – here.

Our own blog piece on the protest is here.

We’ll be handing out leaflets, with some different content to the leaflets we handed out at the recent Conservative party conference in Manchester. The MDC content is here, while the J4MB content is here. You can access the supporting materials by clicking on the URLs at the bottom of each page.

We’ve ordered 2,000 leaflets, and if we don’t hand them all out the balance will be used in protests in the 20 Conservative marginal seats in which we’ll be standing at the 2020 general election. For some months we’ve had funding streams in place to fund our 20 candidates’ £500 deposits.

In the next day or two we’ll be publishing the three designs of large placards we’ll be holding at the protest. Our thanks to the generous donors who’ve funded both the leaflets and the placards. I invite you to support our work by becoming a party member – from £5.00 per month, 16p/day – or by making a one-off donation, here. Thank you for your support.

Cristina Odone’s output is always worth reading. Our thanks to Mike for this.

Sophie Walker’s Twitter account is @SophieRunning, and it’s instructive to see what she’s been tweeting and re-tweeting. She recently re-tweeted a short BBC piece on linking City bonuses to gender balance, without commenting on it, thereby presumably indicating her support for positive gender discrimination – for women into highly-paid office-based jobs, anyway. I have yet to find any evidence of her support for more female long-distance lorry drivers, construction workers, sewage workers, garbage collectors…

The start of the article:

Bonuses for City executives should be linked to progress on appointing women to senior roles, a government-commissioned review is recommending.

It is being led by Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of Virgin Money. She wants financial firms to report and act on creating gender diversity.

“My report proposes addressing the issue in a way that the City will recognise. Make it public, measure it and report on it. What gets published gets done.”

Ms Gadhia said each company should appoint an executive to take responsibility for gender, diversity and inclusion.

The review was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in July as part of the government’s productivity plan aimed at boosting UK output. The final report will be published ahead of the Budget next March.

Ms Gadhia said 60% of the financial services workforce are women, but less than 20% of them reach executive positions.

She believes businesses will increase productivity and improve results by encouraging women into senior roles. [my emphasis]

Does Ms Gadhia really believe that? I doubt it, but if she does, she clearly doesn’t have the intellect to run a branch of this company, let alone be the chief executive of Virgin Money.

Isn’t is extraordinary how every government-commissioned review ends up demanding ever more advantaging of women over men? It’s almost as if the outcomes of the reviews have been determined in advance…

In plain English, what Sophie Walker is endorsing with her re-tweet is the bribing of City executives (mainly men) to encourage them to positively discriminate for women (and, by extension, discriminate against men) when promoting staff.

Does Sophie Walker have no shame?

I think we know the answer to that question…

A link to the Lying Feminist of the Month award we presented to Ms Walker yesterday is here.

Another government throws meritocracy in the bin.

Our thanks to Francis for this. You couldn’t make it up, could you?

Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, failed to respond by the required deadline to our FOI request asking for minutes of meetings she’s had since she took on her role, with organizations advocating for victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse. Her response is now two weeks overdue.

Our letter is here, and in a moment I’ll alert the Crown Prosecution Service to this blog post. We’ll post a blog piece each week on the delay by Alison Saunders, until we get a response.

Sandi Toxic, spokeswoman for the Women’s Equality Party, won two Lying Feminist of the Month awards in the space of just three months. It was inevitable that Sophie Walker, the recently appointed leader, would quickly win one of her own.

12 days ago we sent Ms Walker an open letter with 16 challenges in relation to her party’s launch policy document, giving her until 5pm today to respond. Predictably, she didn’t respond by the deadline.

Another feminist publicly outed as a shameless liar.

There’s a link to the policy document and our challenge letter on her award certificate, along with other materials. 

We’ll be closely following her interviews and public statements in coming years, with a view to presenting her with more of these awards over time.

Our thanks to Ian for this. The start of the article:

AHMEDABAD: Aggrieved with 50 per cent reservation for women in the local body polls, an organization of ‘harassed husbands’ will contest the election in the city with 18 independent candidates.

Dashrath Devda (51), founder of Akhil Bhartiya Patni Atyachar Virodhi Sangh on Wednesday said he and other members of his outfit, which he calls ‘Dukhi Pati’ (aggrieved husband), will contest the election to register their protest against gender-based quota in electoral politics.

“We will contest the election with a demand to abolish 50% reservation for women.Women have already been given adequate legal protection, so there is no need for a new provision. Our fight is not against women, but aga inst the laws that shield women and harass men,” said Devda.

He said he will field his candidates from Nikol, Bapunagar, Naroda, Odhav and Ranip wards, while Devda will contest from Asarva area.

Devda, who has taken up the cudgels on behalf of husbands allegedly harassed by their wives since 1998, said his politics is different and claimed that he and his ‘Dukhi Patis’ will emerge victorious. “The BJP and Congress are worried about caste, community or religion equations, but we are not since our potential voters include the entire male community ,” said Devda who had contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Ahmedabad (East) as an independent candidate and had mustered 2,299 votes.

 

Two days ago I had an email from a woman working in relation to the forthcoming Being a Man Festival (BAM) in London (27-29 November). She asked if I might be interested in promoting the event, to which I responded:

I should sooner gnaw off my hands and feet without the benefit of anaesthetic, than promote your festival.

She replied:

Thank you. Would you like me to remove me from our mailing list?

BAM is a grotesque anti-male event, launched last year by a feminist. Last year’s keynote speaker was Grayson Perry, a transvestite potter – a talented transvestite potter, admittedly – who gave the talk in his trademark heavy make-up, and wearing one of his trademark pink party dresses.

From the website for the forthcoming event:

Being A Man addresses the challenges and pressures of masculine identity in the 21st century.

This major new festival – now in its second year – is taking over Southbank Centre for three days in November 2015. Join us for conversations and the sharing of stories – serious, challenging and light-hearted – plus the mandate to discuss anything and everything about being a man today.

‘… anything and everything about being a man today’? So long as it’s through a gynocentric / feminist lens, anyway. Among the speakers will be Jane Powell, the odious radical feminist who’s been the CEO of The Calm Initiative, a male suicide charity, for almost ten years. I am told her charity’s staff consists of women and one gay man. Gender balance is a fine thing.

Another speaker will be Tim Samuels, the feminist who’s been presenting Men’s Hour, a BBC Radio 5 Live programme – ‘The men’s magazine for the modern man’ – for several years, and has never invited anyone from J4MB onto his programme. He’s an admirer of feminism, and is predictably admired in turn by Jenni Murray – here.

Jonathan Wall, controller of BBC Radio 5 Live, denied in a letter to me in September 2013 that Men’s Hour follows feminist agendas – here.

Six weeks before the last general election Samuels wrote a piece for the Telegraph titled, with no apparent irony, Why is nobody in politics standing up for men?

Another speaker will be Jeremy Hardy, an insufferably smug BBC left-wing luvvie.