Ray Barry and I stood for J4MB at the 2015 general election. The full description of today’s file on YouTube:

“On Friday 17 April 2015 Mike Buchanan received a call from Ray Barry, the J4MB candidate in the Broxtowe constituency. He was understandably angry, having just learned that not only had he not been invited onto the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Broxtowe, the programme had been recorded the previous evening, and broadcast live. Ray then informed Mike Buchanan that he’d been told the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Ashfield, due to be held six days later, was to have as one of its themes what more political parties could do to attract women’s votes. And the presenter was to be a feminist, Sarah Julian.

Mike Buchanan then contacted the (male) producer of the show to be informed that what Ray Barry had said was correct, but in addition the audience members for the Ashfield programme would all be women, and ‘vetted’ by a woman at the BBC. Incensed by this, he made his thoughts on the matter known during his one-minute-long opening statement – it starts at 2:09 – and later took the opportunity to criticise Gloria De Piero MP, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, who was sat next to him (on the other side was Helen Harrison, the Conservative candidate).

At times Mike took opportunities to raise men’s issues including genital mutilation, unemployment, preferencing of women for medical school places over the past 40 years (and the disastrous impact that’s had on the NHS), suicide… the presenter generally withdrew the microphone from him at these points.

John Kimble penned an impressive article about this BBC-engineered fiasco for Breitbart, BBC Bans Men’s Political Party From Talking About Men (Or Even Talking To Them).”

Today’s file is here (55:39).

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Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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