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Justice for Men & Boys 
Would that be ‘The Official Monster Raving Loony Party’, or the breakaway ‘Provisional Monster Raving Loony Party’….?
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This is better than good news, Mike. We need to bear 2 things in mind:
Firstly, the Women’s Equality Party in Shipley joined forces with the Greens. They ended up with 1,040 votes, which is 1,617 votes less than the 2,657 the Greens got in 2015
Secondly, Philip Davies increased his share of the vote by 1.3% – he got 2148 votes more than in 2015.
In other words, Philip Davies has shown every other MP that they can speak out against feminism without it costing them their seat.
I can’t imagine a more damaging precedent for political feminism in this country than the one that Philip Davies just set in Shipley. Feminism has depended for decades on the idea that if you speak out against it, it will cost you. Now we can see that is a lie.
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When you consider how much free and censored publicity the WEP got from the sycophants at the BBC and in The Guardian, compared to the Loonies, that’s a poor showing.
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A few more points on this, Mike. According to it’s Wikipedia entry, the WEP has over 65,000 members and an annual membership fee of £4. That should give it an annual budget of £260K before all the donations from Damien Hirst and Martha Lane Fox, and the benefit from Sandi Toskvig’s “comedy” tour.
Add in the support of the Greens, and the slavish publicity of the Guardian and the BBC. Yet they didn’t just get fewer votes that the Monster Raving Loony Party.
They got fewer votes than the BNP
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