On Sunday we linked to a report on Sarah Champion MP in The Mail on Sunday, in which our call for her resignation was included. Yesterday the print edition of the Daily Mail contained a slightly expanded story, again including our call – here.
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A female presenter on BBC News 24 has just reported excitedly that some random British women’s soccer team beat another one 2:0 (or maybe it was 2:1, I can’t recall – but really, who cares?). The winning team won thanks to an own goal and a penalty, but thankfully the BBC spared us the embarrassing video footage, so we should definitely carry on paying our licence fees to fund the Feminist Broadcasting Service.
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Our thanks to Jeff for this from the BBC, prompted by a small increase in the female suicide rate in 2014, compared with the previous year. Excerpts:
There is no requirement for the NHS to provide gender-specific mental health services, but its value was recognised by the Department of Health as far back as 2002 in a consultation document called Into the Mainstream, signed off by the then mental health minister Jacqui Smith.
It said: “There will be the need to provide single-sex services in some instances.”
The following year, the Department of Health issued guidance that said: “All organisations should aim to ensure that they are sensitive to gender… and the specific needs of women…
According to official annual figures for the UK, in 2014 the male suicide rate was more than three times higher than the female rate.
However, the female rate increased from 4.8 to 5.2 deaths per 100,000 people while the male rate decreased from 17.8 to 16.8…
The Department of Health said women receive more referrals than men to improving access to psychological therapies services.
More than one million women were in contact with mental health and learning disability services in 2014-15, compared with 829,677 men.
Let me get this straight.
(1) The male suicide rate is more than three times higher than the female suicide rate.
(2) Men are a minority of those in contact with mental health services.
(3) Women’s mental health needs are not considered adequately.
Yes, that all makes sense.
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Sarah Champion’s Twitter stream is here. She presents herself as a victim, and allows others to present her as such, while she was the perpetrator of violence against her husband. Scrolling down her tweets I see she has concern only for women and girls, none for men and boys. She is clearly unfit to represent all victims of domestic violence.
If the woman had an ounce of shame, she would resign today.
Our thanks to Tina for this. She’s incensed, and wrote:
So much for the value of fathers in 2016.
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This piece is in today’s Mail on Sunday. Excerpts:
Labour’s Shadow Minister for domestic violence was an ‘abusive bully’ who terrified her former husband and cost him £200,000 in their divorce settlement, a friend claimed last night…
But a friend of Mr Hoyland, 59, a best-selling author and mountaineer who was the 15th Briton to climb Mount Everest, last night accused Miss Champion of ‘distorting the truth’ and playing down the incident.
He told The Mail on Sunday the row was really about a pre-nuptial agreement signed before they wed in 1999 – and suggested it was not the first and only time she had hit Mr Hoyland. [my emphasis]
The friend said: ‘In retrospect, Graham was stupid to have married Sarah. She was an attractive, vivacious woman but also very harassing and abusive during their marriage. He became terrified of her.
‘The argument that saw Graham call the police was over a pre-nuptial agreement. They both received cautions, which was something Derbyshire Police did at the time, but there was no doubt that Graham had called 999 and was the victim.’…
He added that Mr Hoyland felt aggrieved, that despite the abuse and harassment he suffered during the marriage, Miss Champion still ‘ended up walking away with £200,000’ in the divorce settlement.’ Mr Hoyland said last night: ‘I can confirm I was the victim of the attack by Sarah Champion. It’s embarrassing to have to admit your wife attacked you, but perhaps this is an issue that needs to be talked about.’…
Charities and domestic violence campaigners last night called for Miss Champion to resign.
Mike Buchanan, leader of Justice for Men and Boys, said: ‘Sarah Champion should stand down. If this was a male politician, it would be inconceivable that they could remain in this position having admitted that they have a caution for domestic violence.’
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backed her to continue in her job yesterday, telling his party’s women’s conference in Liverpool: ‘I know everyone in this room today will want to join me in just simply saying this to Sarah Champion, “You have our total, full and absolutely warm support.”’
Jeremy Corbyn is, then, a domestic violence apologist – when the perpetrator is a woman, and the victim a man, anyway. This is consistent with the virulently anti-male positions he’s taken in other areas. In July 2015, when he was a leadership candidate, he published Working With Women, a feminist tract which led to people suggesting his party be renamed The Labour Party.
Corbyn is a supporter of the criminal offence of Male Genital Mutilation, as reported by The Jewish Chronicle – here.
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Our thanks to Jeff for this.
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It’s long been known that women carry out a significant proportion of sexual offences against men, women, and children, but the criminal justice system turns a blind eye to the matter. We covered the issue in our 2015 general election manifesto (pp. 31-7).
Feminists drafted the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and defined rape as a crime only men can commit. So I was pleased to learn today of a petition to the government and parliament which has attracted 875 signatures in just two days, an encouraging start. If and when it reaches 10,000 signatures, the government will have to respond to it. Please join me in signing it, which will take only seconds. Thank you.
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We are pleased to announce that on International Men’s Day, we’ll be supporting this. The march will be from the Royal Courts of Justice to the Houses of Parliament – 11:00, Saturday, 19 November. The full description:
Family lives matter.
Time to talk, Time to listen, Time to act,
suicide is not an option.Fighting for family law reform and equal rights.
Aiming to highlight the failings of the family/divorce courts and associated organization’s that can lead to so many men committing/considering suicide. Also a celebration of all fathers and mens groups that help in these dark times.
We aim to show the magnitude of the problem by taking teddies/dolls to parliament with our children’s first names attached. Each teddy/doll representing a child missing out on the love of a father, grandfather, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins. After the event the teddies and dolls will be donated to a childrens charity.
The name tags sent to parliament.
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Justice for Men & Boys 