Our thanks to Jim for this piece on the BBC. So far as I know, nobody has yet corroborated the FT journalist’s story. The piece contains part of her interview by Evan Davis on Newsnight last night. When asked to describe the event she starts, “It’s impossible to describe. Incredibly loud, a huge amount of testosterone in the room…”. 350 men, and testosterone in the room? Shouldn’t be allowed. They should have been required to deposit their testicles in the cloakroom, before entering the event. Extracts from the BBC piece, emphases ours:
Event compere David Walliams said he was “appalled” by the claims but had not witnessed anything…
Madison Marriage, the Financial Times reporter who worked at the event, said she and “numerous other hostesses” were groped at the event.
She said the 130 hostesses were told to wear skimpy black outfits with matching underwear and high heels and also that they could drink alcohol while working. [J4MB: Those evil patriarchs! I’ll bet they abused the women financially, by covering the cost of their alcoholic drinks.]
They were asked to sign a five-page non-disclosure agreement about the event upon arrival at the hotel, Ms Marriage said, [J4MB: In which case she’s presumably in breach of contract, and hopefully the Presidents Club will bring a legal action against her] and were not warned they might be sexually harassed…
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Zahawi [J4MB: Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Children and Families] had “attended briefly and felt uncomfortable at what had begun to happen.”
Mr Zahawi told Newsnight: “I didn’t stay long enough to really comment on the occasion.”
Mr Zahawi later tweeted: “I do unequivocally condemn this behaviour. The report is truly shocking. I will never attend a men only function ever.”
WPP, the world’s biggest advertising agency, which had sponsored a table at the dinner, said it was withdrawing its future support.
Boss Sir Martin Sorrell, who did not attend, told BBC Radio 4’s Today his guests did not see such behaviour and said: “We won’t support the charity in future, which is regrettable because it is a charity that supports numerous children’s charities and has done a lot of good work.”
Real estate investment business Frogmore said the guests at its table were “unaware of any of the described events but in no way condone this behaviour” [J4MB: they don’t condone alleged behaviour which may be the figment of feminists’ fertile imaginations] and it will now end its association with the event.
We’ve emailed the female boss at the Arista agency to enquire about hiring a couple of hostesses to work at the July conference. They could inject the glamour which has perhaps been lacking at previous conferences. We need to challenge feminists who seek to deny employment to women who are “tall, slim, and pretty”, the alleged requirements for hostesses at the Presidents Club dinner. Those women need our support. In the interests of diversity, feminists will surely be keen to employ short, fat, ugly bearded lesbians for their own conferences.
Justice for Men & Boys 
It’s like nobody can justify their own actions anymore – the whole thing has collapsed within around 6 hours of the story being published! That is an amazing amount of power for a political movement to have. Saying that, I was encouraged by the comments along the lines of Martin Sorrell, and also the fact that the event started by boasting about being un-PC. Why am I encouraged? Because if a competent political movement comes along to challenge feminism and political correctness, then the whole feminist house of cards will collapse because very few people like the movement — and many of the people who do are total mugs that would support anything that sounds ‘moral’!
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I reflected that a woman at my Gym had just been to a friends Birthday Bash with “Nude Butlers” and before Christmas a group from work had been at a “Dreamboys” event. The latter sounded pretty tough for the “dancers”. I’m a bit of a prude myself but drink fuelled ribaldry is hardly a male preserve.
Remarkable that a few allegations, not proof or anthing makes the all powerful patriarchy crumble in hours. Could it possibly be it just doesn’t exist.
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Beware fake news and false allegations.
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Lots of condemnation but nobody saw anything?
How strange.
I can only think of one reason for that.
Well, I’ve said it before but that won’t stop me saying it again.
What we have now is that which they’ve been aiming at for a long – time guilt by accusation alone, no due process, no witnesses, no evidence required.
Just allegation, hearsay and scuttlebutt.
Mix with a dash of malice and serve hot.
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Absolutely correct,we witness it going on at a charity do,in the workplace,in a marriage and society at large and these ‘allegations’-for that’s all this amounts to-can topple or spell the end of anything and that’s a worrying development.
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If this sort of thing really goes on at the Presidents club and its not just false allegations. How do I get to join?
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#MeToo
Oh wait…
Maybe the male version of #MeToo can be about proudly banging cute chicks? Time to troll those feminazis on twitter with proud proclamations of our “sexual harassment” escapades. No apologies made.
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I’ll book the minibus! 🙂
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Another thought – this must all be pretty humiliating for all the women who worked at the event and enjoyed themselves.
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..particularly as they (presumably) knew what they were expected to wear and chose to work the event anyway…
“How OUTRAGEOUS!! They expect me to dress like a tart for all those wealthy men!!!…(..but I’ll go along anyway…tips… )…”.
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