Details here. The position will be for a term of five years. Good luck.
It would appear that Sophie ‘Doughnut’ Walker plans to step down. She’s won two Lying Feminist of the Month awards, as has her BBC licence payer funded colleague, Sandi Toxic.
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Mothers’ Day is in two days time. Ian, our legal adviser, writes:
Task for the day:
As you go round your area, take a photo of any shop/business/pub/restaurant that is doing a special offer for Mothers’ Day.
They have a legal duty to offer something equivalent on Fathers’ Day (June 18). If they do not offer something similar, they are in breach of their legal duty to treat men and women the same, and we can threaten them with legal action.
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A tip of the hat to Israelite Prepper for this (video, 10:15).
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Four years ago AVfM published my piece titled, ‘He who pays the piper, calls the tune. Or does he?’ It was an analysis following the discovery that in the 2010/11 tax year, men paid £108.0 billion of the government’s £151.6 billion income tax receipts (71.2%), while women paid just £43.6 billion (28.8%). The income tax gender gap that year was £64.4 billion. We’ve been following the issue ever since.
The state’s numerous assaults on the human rights of men and boys, as outlined in our 2015 general election manifesto, happen despite men paying the majority of income tax collected in the country. Income tax is the largest single source of government tax revenue.
The income tax gender gap increased in each of the three years following the 2010/11 tax year.
So, what of the latest year for which we have gendered data, 2014/15? The relevant Table from the ONS is here. It shows that in the 2014/15 tax year, men paid £121.0 billion of the government’s £167.0 billion income tax receipts (72.5%), while women paid £45.5 billion (27.2%). The figures don’t add up to exactly 100% because of some crude rounding in the income tax receipts stats, leading to a discrepancy of £500 million. The bottom line?
In 2014/15 men paid £75.5 billion more income tax than women, a new record.
The data for 2014/15 also gives an insight into the average income tax paid by tax-paying men and women:
Of course if we look at men and women as classes, rather than men and women as taxpayers, the relative contributions of men will be considerably higher, despite the fact that male unemployment has long been higher than female unemployment, and government initiatives to ‘support’ women into employment (often into male-typical lines, e.g. engineering, on which £30 milion of taxpayers’ money is being wasted).
The Conservative government’s anti-conservative and anti-family policy direction of driving ever more women into paid employment has led to record numbers of women in work, and record numbers of babies and young children beiong looked after by strangers. This has led inevitably to a great deal of unhappiness among women and children, poorer outcomes for children, and higher unemployment among men – the latter point explored by Belinda Brown in a paper in 2013, here. It has been a failure even in terms of income tax generation. Women paid £43.6 billion in 2010/11, £45.5 billion in 2014/15, an increase of just £1.9 bilion. The relative figures for men are £108.0 billion and £121.0 billion, an increase of £13.0 billion.
Year after year, the income tax gender gap increases.
In the space of just four years – from 2010/11 to 2014/15 – the income tax gender gap increased from £64.4 billion to £75.5 billion, an increase of 17.2%.
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With just 10 weeks left before the third International Conference on Men’s Issues in Gold Coast, Australia – the website is here – there is an urgent need for more donations to fund flights for Tom, the man who did such a great job of filming and editing the presentations at the second International Conference in London, which are all here (scroll down to 8-10 July, 2016). Tom’s crowdfunder site is here. He needs to raise at least £1,200 in the next four weeks, or he won’t be joining us.
Videos of ICMI conference presentations are a unique historical record of the development of the Men’s Rights Movement, and are made available to the public for no charge.
I urge you to donate what you can to Tom’s appeal.
All the videos of the presentations at the first conference in the series, hosted by AVfM in Detroit in 2014, are here. They include mine.
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Daniel Finkelstein is a Jewish former executive editor of The Times – the paper to which I subscribe – and remains a weekly columnist with the paper, and an associate editor. He’s also a Conservative peer.
The Jewish Chronicle has just published a piece by him. He writes:
I believe that tradition is important and have a predisposition towards existing institutions and practices.
But I believe that we pray and we think in order to understand. And from that understanding we realise when we need to change [my emphasis]. This is true in politics and as a Jew.
I shall seek a meeting with him on the subject of male circumcision.
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A tip of the hat to Jordan for this – his debut piece for TCW, we believe – and we hope to see many more from him.
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Our thanks to Nigel for this. From the website:
About the study
The aim of the project is to explore the experiences of men who have been in an intimate relationship with a female partner, where there has been violence and control. Research has demonstrated the frequency of women’s violence towards men but has tended to utilise large scale quantitative surveys. The aim of the current study, by utilising a qualitative method, is to allow the exploration of the experiences of violence within relationships that allow for fuller, more contextual answers and an opportunity to explain in more detail.
If you are – or have been – a victim of conflict and aggression at the hands of a female partner, we urge you to contribute to the study.
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Our thanks to John for this (video, 2:00). The same woman came up to us at the last Tory party conference, when we were protesting about MGM – here (video, 1:06).
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Appalling. Liz Truss, the Injustice Secretary, is no better than her predecessors at not admitting that the obvious solution to prison overcrowding is to send far fewer men to prison. As William Collins pointed out – here – if men were sentenced as leniently as women, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there. But the government has no interest in gender equality if the beneficiaries would be men or boys, even when one consequence would be far lower costs for the taxpayer to meet.
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Justice for Men & Boys 