(Jeremy Corbyn outside the Labour party conference in Liverpool. Copyright, Getty Images.)
Our thanks to Tim for this, a short article from ITV. A lengthier piece by the Independent on the same topic is here. The start of the ITV piece:
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that a future Labour government would put women at the heart of their policies.
He pledged his party would do more to bridge the pay gap between men and women and offer more support to victims of domestic abuse.
Marking International Human Rights Day, Mr Corbyn said: “Labour will measure every piece of legislation, and every policy, by the yardstick of its impact on women before it is brought before Parliament and put into practice.
“Women will not only be at the heart of my government, women’s rights and interests will be front and centre stage of everything we do.
We shouldn’t be surprised by this. Working-class men (and their partners) long ago realised the Labour party had deserted them, and that realisation has largely led to the woeful standing of Labour in the polls. Corbyn is acknowledging Labour doesn’t care a jot about men – working-class or otherwise – and in desperation is placing his bets on securing the “women’s vote”. Hmm, how did that strategy play out in the recent US presidential elections? 53 per cent of white female voters picked Trump, making Hillary herstory, happily.
In July 2015 Corbyn lauded a party document, Working with Women, which would surely have been accepted word-for-word by all radical feminists. In April of this year, in an interview with The Jewish Chronicle, he gave his support to Brit Milah, the Jewish version of MGM, performed on 8-day-old baby boys – here. In August he posted the following on his Facebook page:
It is unfathomable that – in this day and age – a Conservative MP can make derogatory sexist comments at a conference held by an openly misogynistic political party.
Jezza was referring, of course, to the estimable Philip Davies MP and our highly successful International Conference on Men’s Issues. Our short blog piece on Jezza’s intervention is here.
Now we come to something truly ominous in the ITV article, in the unlikely event Corbyn were ever to be elected prime minister:
Mr Corbyn said a future Labour government would ratify the Istanbul Convention which lays down minimum standards of care and backing for people fleeing abusive relationships.
We’ve been hearing more of feminist MPs in recent times calling for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the ‘Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence’. The Women’s Equality party and many other feminist organizations are calling for it, notably those in the domestic violence industry.
In August 2014 the excellent British ‘redpill.co.uk’ website published this on the convention. It’s five pages long and very well worth reading if you have the time.
In January 2013 – almost four years ago – AVfM published a piece by Lucian Valsan (AVfM Europe) titled, The great danger of the Intanbul convention. He started the piece with a fitting quotation from Edmund Burke:
All that is required for evil to prevail is that good men to do nothing.
Lucian cites some text from the document’s preamble:
Recalling the basic principles of international humanitarian law, and especially the Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) and the Additional Protocols I and II (1977) thereto;
Condemning all forms of violence against women and domestic violence;
Recognizing that the realization of de jure and de facto equality between women and men is a key element in the prevention of violence against women;
Recognizing that violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between women and men, which have led to domination over, and discrimination against, women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women;
The Istanbul Convention, if ever ratified in the UK, will be yet another nail in the coffin of British men’s human rights.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
It would be a government for women of childbearing age. Not for women. In any case, not in my name, sunshine!
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Here’s a simple experiment.
This is Corbyn’s original quote;
“Labour will measure every piece of legislation, and every policy, by the yardstick of its impact on women before it is brought before Parliament and put into practice.
Women will not only be at the heart of my government, women’s rights and interests will be front and centre stage of everything we do.”
Now, if only one word is changed we get;
“Labour will measure every piece of legislation, and every policy, by the yardstick of its impact on men before it is brought before Parliament and put into practice.
Men will not only be at the heart of my government, men’s rights and interests will be front and centre stage of everything we do.”
Or how about this;
“Labour will measure every piece of legislation, and every policy, by the yardstick of its impact on people before it is brought before Parliament and put into practice.
People will not only be at the heart of my government, people’s rights and interests will be front and centre stage of everything we do.”
Pick one that appeals the most.
Incidentally, I think there’s no chance of Corbyn getting elected – he’s got LOSER written all over him just as much as that scatty old fool Foot had when photographed in a London park, stick, sparce hair and absurdly short long trousers flapping in the breeze – or Neil Pillock falling over on the beach (still ‘day makingly hilarious’ and still on-line.)
Their fates were sealed at those moments if not before!
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Indeed. Or he could have tried to appeal to an even bigger cohort with, ‘white people’.
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All the more ironic as a gaggle of Blair Babes in the PLP got together threatening a sexual discrimination/harassment case against Jezza. Another bunch had a punt at “racist”. Of course all evaporated when the political class was roundly trounced in the leadership election. As he learned nothing from this, what a fool.
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The Labour Party was created by working class family men, the very group the party has most betrayed.
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Jezza plays the woman card, everybody yawns.
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It is unfathomable that – in this day and age – a Conservative MP can make derogatory sexist comments at a conference held by an openly misogynistic political party.
It is unfathomable that – in this day and age – a Labour MP and party leader can appoint a known domestic violence perpetrator as Shadow Home Office minister for preventing abuse and domestic violence in a party known not only for its antisemitism but its misandry and misogyny( but painting women and perpetual victims).
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I had hoped Corbyn would be good for the Labour Party. I can’t say I’ve known much about him but the Labour Party needed (and needs) to get back to its core principles of supporting the working (hu)man and Corbyn seemed a reasonable choice for this task. I believe an effective democracy requires an effective and worthwhile political opponent.
If the Istanbul Convention coupled with gynocentrism is really Corbyn’s idea of the Labour Party, I will fight him and the Party with fervour. I have also been tracking the Istanbul Convention and what is quoted here is not the worst of it. (Lucian is a good analyst so he probably has worse to say, too.) William Collins also included an analysis in one of his texts; I separated it out for just the Convention, here:
http://www.antimisandry.com/articles/592788-equality-european-style-istanbul-convention
The Convention is tainted by supporting a 2002 committee recommendation on protecting women as the only identified victims of domestic violence. It panders far too closely to the similar UN initiative to ‘end violence against women’ which is in direct contravention of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The full text of the ‘Istanbul Convention’:
https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168046031c
(Check out Articles 4 and 38 [38 part 2?], among many, to see why J4MB is opposed to it. Once you have read enough to find the criminalising of political opponents, take a look at Article 45 and imagine how that could be used. Maybe I’m paranoid; maybe I have learnt the wisdom of being paranoid.)
The EU is soon likely to force all members to enact the Convention. I might be the only person whose main reason for voting Brexit was to keep the Istanbul Convention away. it is effectively a way of introducing cultural Marxism into a country’s Constitution. At least three countries fell to it this year:
▸ http://www.antimisandry.com/forum/introduction-to-anti-misandry/why-we-re-here/violence-against-women-and-men/60394-new-discriminatory-law-to-be-introduced
▸ http://www.antimisandry.com/forum/introduction-to-anti-misandry/why-we-re-here/violence-against-women-and-men/60428-new-discriminatory-law-to-be-introduced
▸ http://www.antimisandry.com/forum/introduction-to-anti-misandry/why-we-re-here/violence-against-women-and-men/60658-new-discriminatory-law-to-be-introduced
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Suddenly, the matter of the Istanbul Convention has come to an urgent point.
I have just discovered that this coming Friday, 16th December, a private members’ bill is going into second reading to enact the Istanbul Convention.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/preventingandcombatingviolenceagainstwomenanddomesticviolenceratificationofconvention.html
It is important that your MP knows to vote against this bill. Your MP can’t be expected to be informed about everything and an innocuous and helpful-sounding bill like “Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Ratification of Convention) Bill 2016-17” is something few would object to unless informed.
The DAY AFTER TOMORROW your MP might vote for this, or fail to vote against it. Your earnest appeal to them not to be fooled by the pretty words and title and to vote DOWN this bill might be all that is needed to stop it.
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