Corbyn says a Labour government will use foreign aid billions to spread feminist ideals across the globe

Our thanks to a number of people for this. The start of the piece:

Jeremy Corbyn will use billions of pounds of foreign aid to spread Left-wing and feminist ideals across the world, Labour said last night.

He would also abandon the Tory principle of spending the aid budget in the British national interest.

Labour has pledged to bring in the UK’s first ‘explicitly feminist’ international development policy to ‘challenge patriarchy’ [J4MB emphasis] by tripling funding for women’s groups. Mr Corbyn said he would challenge ‘global elites’ and ‘redistribute power’.

Ireland: Graham Spurling, Girl Guides parade MC, says something funny. Cue outrage from hatchet-faced feminists.

Our thanks to Sean for this in The Irish Independent. It starts with a headline which is a lie:

Parade MC sorry for telling Girl Guides to ‘go home and make lunch’

He said no such thing. He asked if they could. The full piece, emphases ours:

A cinema owner has come under criticism after telling members of the Irish Girl Guides to “go home and make lunch” at a local St Patrick’s Day parade.

Graham Spurling, whose family owns numerous multiplexes around the country, made the comments as the MC of the Greystones parade in Co Wicklow.

The Chief Commissioner of the Irish Girl Guides, Helen Concannon, said she was shocked by the comments. [J4MB: A shocked feminist at the head of a sexist organization, admitting only girls. How shocking.]

“Such outdated and misogynistic remarks made so openly at a public event, even in the guise of so-called humour, [J4MB: We get it. Feminists are humourless harridans, we can’t expect them to appreciate humour.] are completely out of place in the 21st century and go against all that our organisation is striving to achieve,” Ms Concannon said on social media. [J4MB: Ms Concannon is engaging in the anti-male “tone policing” that’s a characteristic of women in general, and feminists in particular.]

Girl Guides had chosen gender equality as their theme for St Patrick’s Day. [J4MB: Ironic, given the organization doesn’t admit boys as members.] The group of girls between the ages of five and 14 walked the parade in Greystones carrying posters which read: ‘Girl Power’, ‘Equal Rights’ [J4MB: So they’re willing to give up their privileges in order to have equal rights with males? Good start.] and the Girl Guides’ tagline, ‘Giving Girls Confidence’. [J4MB: Because boys acquire their confidence by marching with posters which read, “Giving Boys Confidence”, right?]

They sang a song as they marched, which included the lyrics: “Can a woman fly an aeroplane? Yes, she can, yes, she can! [J4MB: “Do many women want to fly aeroplanes? No, they don’t, no, they don’t!”] Can a woman build a building? Yes, she can, yes, she can!” [J4MB: “Do women build buildings? No, they don’t, no, they don’t!”]

When the song finished, Mr Spurling asked the crowd: “Can a woman go home now and make the lunch? Can a woman do the ironing?” {J4MB: Good questions. Most women can do both.]

Mr Spurling unreservedly apologised for his remarks, [J4MB: Big mistake. Never apologise to feminists, never explain. You owe them nothing.] describing them as “tongue-in-cheek”.

“I did make the poorly chosen, ill-advised and inappropriate remarks regarding ‘cooking and ironing’,” he told the Irish Independent. “I accept without reserve and apologise for my tongue-in-cheek comments that were only intended to be in jest.”

A spokesperson [J4MB: spokeswoman] for the Irish Girl Guides told the Irish Independent the group has accepted the apology but wants people to learn from the experience.

Chair of Greystones Parade Committee Grainne McLoughlin told the Irish Independent: “Even the best of us can say stupid things at times, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be forgiven and allowed to move on.”

And so another generation of girls is being taught to take offence at what would have passed as perfectly acceptable humour until not long ago. Another generation of girls is being taught to be miserable as a result of contact with the real world. Way to go in building girls’ confidence, Girl Guides! We shall be contacting Graham Spurling to convey our appreciation of his humorous contribution to the parade, and telling him he has nothing to apologise for.

Conference polo shirts, T-shirts, and sweatshirts now available to order

International Conference on Men's Issues (2018)

The men’s 100% cotton polo shirt, in Navy

We bring some exciting news. Conference polo shirts, T-shirts, and sweatshirts are available in a wide variety of garment colours, materials (well, 100% cotton or polycotton, anyway), and sizes (S/M/L/XL/XXL). Men’s T-shirts also available in XXXL. Women’s T-shirts not available in XXXL, we don’t want feminists wearing them.

The shirts are available in men’s and women’s designs, other than the sweatshirts, which are unisex. Many other print designs are available, displayed over two pages. The online store is here, the quickest way to select your garment type is by clicking on the “Products” tab under the logo at the top left corner. We strongly recommend you heed the sizing advice in the “Description”. The shirts are all printed to order by a leading company in Manchester.

David Cameron, Toady of the Year (2012-15), backs Harriet Harman for Speaker

A piece in today’s Times by Matt Chorley, Red Box Editor:

David Cameron’s relationship with John Bercow remains as bitter as ever, with the former prime minister privately backing Harriet Harman to become Commons Speaker.

Mr Bercow is under pressure after allegations of bullying made against him by a former parliamentary clerk.

Ms Harman has been tipped to replace him and admits in an interview that she would “consider it at the time” if he were forced out.

Mr Cameron regularly clashed with Mr Bercow while Conservative leader and then as prime minister. Almost two years after he left No 10 the bitterness remains and he is supporting efforts to replace the Speaker.

It is understood that Mr Cameron bumped into Ms Harman in parliament this week and told her he was “rooting for her” to become Speaker. “I know that’s just the endorsement you need,” Mr Cameron joked of the cross-party alliance. Allies of the former prime minister see removing the Speaker as “unfinished business” after a failed effort to oust him from the chair just before the 2015 election.

Ms Harman, who was acting Labour leader in 2010 and 2015, has been linked with a run for the speakership for several weeks but the issue became more pressing after allegations on BBC’s Newsnight, denied by Mr Bercow, that he bullied Kate Emms out of her job as his private secretary.

In an interview with House magazine, Ms Harman said: “People have been asking me whether I would be prepared to stand. But I think that that’s something that I would have to consider when there’s a vacancy.”

Although the pair often clashed, Mr Cameron praised Ms Harman, who was acting Labour leader, in their final prime minister’s questions in 2015: “Twice you have stepped into the breach as your party’s acting leader, never an easy job, but you have carried it out with total assurance.” He also once joked “she’s far posher than I am”.

His rivalry with Mr Bercow goes back further. In 2005 when Mr Cameron was running for the Tory leadership, Mr Bercow took a swipe at his background, declaring: “The combination of Eton, hunting, shooting and lunch at White’s is not helpful when you are trying to appeal to millions of ordinary people.”

In 2010 Mr Cameron mocked him, recalling a joke about the diminutive Mr Bercow being furious at an MP driving into his car and shouting: “I’m not Happy.” To which the MP replied: “Well, which one [J4MB: of Snow White’s seven dwarves] are you?”

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For some years the Anti-Feminism League, and latterly J4MB, presented awards to men in senior positions, who are feminists or enabled feminist initiatives – “Toady” awards. Today virtually all men in senior positions are Toadies, so there seems little point in presenting the awards.

I worked for the Conservative party as a business consultant (2006-8), during the party’s term in opposition under the leadership of David Cameron, appointed leader in 2005. I had the misfortune of encountering Cameron’s odious Head of Strategy, Steve Hilton, a man loathed by many people who had to deal with him. In May 2015 Hilton appeared with Harriet Harman on The Andrew Marr Showhere (video, 2:38) – and was so fawning towards the evil witch that he earned a Toady award.

Cameron was always a mangina, later a Toady. In the autumn of 2009 he announced his intention to introduce all-women shortlists. Along with many others I cancelled my party membership, never to return. The party has been an utter embarrassment to small ‘c’ conservatives since at least 2005, and I’m with Peter Hitchens in wishing to see it annihilated at the next general election. Five years with a Commie in No.10 should be enough to establish and build a serious small ‘c’ conservative party, which the country badly needs.

Cameron won our “Toady of the Year” awards over four successive years, details and links to all four certificates here. The final one is here.

Cameron’s backing of Harriet Harman for the Speaker’s role is utterly in character for the most appalling British prime minister in living memory (even if you’re 100+).