We need ‘moar equality’ for females!
Today I’ll present a few examples for ‘feminism’ in action. There’s the anti-Raab campaign, there’s Hague and the WI, again, and there’s the NHS because Starmer has apparently spoken out. Except for that last item you’ll not find any of them in this morning’s collection of the dead-tree press: “Newspaper headlines: Starmer’s NHS pledge and MPs’ anger over eco-protesters” (link).
Let’s take a quick look at this Starmer interview of which the DT is so proud that you can’t find the actual thing on their site. Well, perhaps it’ll come out later. Unsurprisingly, his verdict is that
“The NHS is “broken”, Sir Keir Starmer has declared, claiming that a fifth of A&E patients go to hospital because they cannot get a GP appointment. In an interview with The Telegraph, the Labour leader accused the Conservatives of presiding over a “cycle of decline” that could bring the NHS to an end. New research by Labour has suggested that around 4.5 million patients in England went to A&E last year because they could not get a GP appointment.” (paywalled link)
Well, it’s good to know that Starmer and Labour have noticed this state of affairs. It’s also good to know that he knows how to ‘save’ the NHS – by not voting Tory, of course:
“Sir Keir set out a case for “reform and rebuilding” of healthcare, with neighbourhood health services tailored to local communities instead of a centralised NHS. He claimed the future of the health service was in jeopardy under the Conservatives, saying: “If they carry on like this, it can’t survive – the biggest risk to the NHS is another Tory government.” (paywalled link)
‘Targeting local communities’: is that a hint that Labour is going to make the 15-minute-city a reality? Let’s not ask under which government the NHS became ‘centralised’ … Also, he and Labour will ‘protect women’s rights’ by keeping single-sex wards! Well, that’s a worthy aim because, as The Times reports,
“The number of NHS patients on mixed-sex wards hit a record high in January, according to health service figures. Some 4,938 patients were placed on wards with the opposite sex, the highest number since monitoring began in 2010. Figures reached a low of 110 in June 2014.” (link, paywalled)
You’ll not find a single word acknowledging the huge impact the covid & lockdown policies have had on the NHS – policies enthusiastically supported by Labour for which the government wasn’t hard enough. At least he now acknowledges that 99.9% of women don’t have a penis,’having previously vowed to change the law in favour of self-identification.’ (paywalled link). There must be an election coming … though it’s funny that he’s not getting flak from the usual suspects for this statement.
Meanwhile, a certain William Hague turns out to be behind the times by jumping on the transgender train, telling WI ‘activists’ that they “should “get over” their opposition to transgender people joining the organisation” and “get used” to the fact they want to join.” (link, paywalled).
I gather from that report that local WIs want local branches to have a vote. They haven’t taken kindly to Hague’s ‘advice’ and a Tory MP – female – said “that Hague should stay out of the argument, adding: “Why do men think they are entitled to tell women what they ought to do?” (link, paywalled). Not that I carry a torch for Hague or support his ludicrous advice, but yon MP ought to reflect on ‘sauce -goose -gander’ because women seem to think that it’s perfectly ok for them to tell men what they ought to do.
Moreover, professional females are entrenched in an anti-male warfare which is skewing our attitude towards justice. There were reports about the director of the CBI having been sacked summarily over complaints about his behaviour. Astonishingly, the Beeb has a report you might like to peruse (link). The important quote however is this:
“Sexual harassment is unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature, says Alison Loveday, an employment lawyer at Lockett Loveday McMahon Solicitors. “It must have either violated someone’s dignity, whether it was intended or not, or created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them, whether it was intended or not.” (link)
And there ye have it: a whole catalogue of ‘misdemeanours’ which are punishable by sacking. Just ‘creating an intimidating environment, intended or not’, is sufficient. Keep this statement in mind – it’s important for the ‘Case of Bully Raab’. This is a campaign enthusiastically supported by The Times, with ‘insider help’ from Whitehall.
The actual report hasn’t even got into the hands of Sunak but ‘sources’ already told The Times that “Dominic Raab is likely to be replaced by a woman if he is forced to quit as justice secretary over claims that he bullied officials.” (link, paywalled). Moreover, in a clear attempt to force Sunak’s hands, ‘sources’ told The Times that:
“Sunak was most likely to appoint a woman to the role amid concerns about the gender imbalance in cabinet. Just a quarter of the seats are filled by women.” (link, paywalled)
And those ‘sources’ are already bandying about the names of those females who could replace Raab whose demise these ‘sources’ regard as a foregone conclusion
“Three female ministers — Victoria Atkins, financial secretary to the Treasury, Victoria Prentis, the attorney-general and Lucy Frazer, the culture secretary — are said to be in contention to succeed Raab. Alex Chalk, a defence minister, is also in the running.” (link, paywalled)
There ye go: have a campaign to get rid of Raab and replace him with a female minister because “we” need more than just a quarter of male ministers. We’ve come a long way in the fight for equality when gender and race are the criteria on which governments are supposed to be selected, not merit.
How this works out in practice is exemplified by the state of the much vaunted German Armed Forces which are even less than just a shadow of their former selves after having been ‘led’ by three female Ministers of defence in succession. One of them ended up as top honcho of the EU.
That’s all I have for today. Clearly, “we” must fight for ‘moar females’! They give us transmales in adverts and change the logo of a National Park because a logo of a burning brazier is detrimental for Net Zero. Have a good day.
HA…….absolutely astounding, I would never have guessed that the Nightingale Hospitals set up during the Covid pandemic were named after Florence Nightingale, well blow me down. Harold, you should be named ‘Brain of Britain’ and I bow to thee oh great one. Dearie me, heaven help us….
Being out and about on the doorsteps again is fun (Independent candidate for my local district ward) A lady interrupted her husband to ask me what I thought a woman was. She must have liked my basic biology answer as she delivered around 200 flyers for me and they have a corex board (next door but one to the polling station)
Even better – Lib Dem boy went a door knocking too and she asked him the same Q. Got him all flustered ‘er it’s complicated’ so then asked him ‘so you think all women have a penis?’
The other main grouch – apart the perennial potholes one- can’t support any of the main parties; like Reform but they’re useless.
Reform UK…..useless is not the word. Its worse than useless. Apparently 800 attendees at their rally in Derby, but can’t even muster up a handful of candidates in any one area in an election. And allegedly 650 candidates waiting in the wings in the event of a general election. Someone has had too much to drink, pull the other one. Anyway Helen, well done for standing as an Independent. Would you ever return to the UK Independence Party however?
The UK Independence Party has become what UKIP should have been all along; A democratically organised party with a proper manifesto appropriate for a general election, run by good people devoid of ego. I let my membership lapse after the Bolton/Batten/Brain/Vaccha mess, but rejoined in 2021. It is not the party people remember. Many I know, bitter about everything that happened, think it is still the party of old with all its previous faults and will not rejoin. It really isn’t the same party though. Just sane, decent people at last albeit in a much reduced party.
The problem with Reform UK is that it is opaque, anti-democratic in its structure by design, and run as a fiefdom. I am not willing to be a serf.
Persuading people that the modern UK Independence Party is not the old UKIP will be an uphill task (to put it mildly). Good people who left are not looking back. I wonder if For Britain supporters, currently homeless after its demise, will follow Anne-Marie back to the UK Independence Party?
Anne-Marie’s return was a surprise. I was in Skegness for her excellent speech and with her in the bar afterwards when she was emphatic she would not rejoin. I suggested that she could at least make favourably mentions in other talks she might give. She said she would. Well, a week is a long time in politics and six months even longer it seems.
I rejoined for the Worthing conference (encouraged by friends) and enjoyed it more than I expected to. I met Steve Laws there. Very decent guy. Skegness last year was a complete hoot and another very enjoyable day.
It is laudable indeed that Helen is standing as an independent, but she is missing out.
Yes, as a long standing member of UKIP I would, on the whole, agree with SY’s sentiments.
Helena raises issues that may be of concern to some but on the whole the current managers of the party are to be congratulated on keeping UKIP from insolvency.
Nevertheless, I shall be throwing my support and activism behind the centre Right challenger party that shows the most activism in my constituency for the 2024 GE.
While the current ‘leader’ and permanent chairman are there (despite veerrry carefully removing themselves from positions of liability, like directorships) – NEVER! Hell would freeze over first – or our planet fry from an excess of plant food.
I note that Anne Marie Waters has rejoined, IMHO she is far too sincere and honest to get mixed up with that lot. Whether this was her price or not, the NEC recently voted to remove the list of parties where previous involvement barred membership. Now replaced with a list of odd left wing Marxist guff like Stop Oil – as if they’d fancy joining. How does this make Kippers or ex Kippers who backed AMW in 2017 feel? Or even closer to home, those who backed Richard Braine and would have been happy to have Tommy Robinson in the party – bearing in mind Hamilton & Walker were so keen to overturn that group?
On liabilities- nothing like a little poke around Companies House – look up UKIP, check out the trust fund set up after the Mayoral & regional elections – who has sole control? Then check out ‘We are the People Ltd’ Who is the sole director? And start asking questions. Those with journalist backgrounds might ring a friend or several. I’d like to see many a politician in the clink – starting with one A. Blair and there are several closer to home I have on my wish list
Helena……..I see what you mean about ‘We Are The People Ltd’ but there is still a ‘UK Independence Party Ltd listed on the Companies House website with eleven Active Directors.
What trust fund? And why is it a problem?
I have no idea how people who backed AMW feel. Surprised perhaps. Some, in the grip of puritanical fervour still, will be dismayed while other more pragmatic or realistic supporters may rejoin for the reasons she did.
‘We are the people Ltd’ is recently incorporated and yet to file accounts. So what?
It is manifestos that matter. To see policy in ad hominem terms is how the left behave. I did not rejoin UKIP out of idolatry. I think Neil Hamilton is not a suitable leader for being tainted – I suspect he would like to stand down soon – but he helped stabilise the party after spiteful attempts to destroy it. I am aware of concerns over Ben Walker’s past, but he has been a very competent chairman. Archaeology over people’s past without the prospect of redemption is very Stalinist.
One will never find a party, nor leader, one can be 100% comfortable with. Lay out manifestos on a table. Which party do you most agree with? It is a personal threshold matter. For some simply more than 50%, For others 70% or more. The search for 100% is unrealistic. As to “that lot” does it include members?
My re-involvement has been two enjoyable and entertaining conferences. Even if ‘We are people Ltd’ is somehow sinful in some as yet mysterious way I still expect to enjoy a third conference.
The Tommy Robinson fan club behaved like Momentum and Corbyn supporters. They were certainly self-righteous. Hamilton and Walker wanted the party to be electable and the NEC were entitled to take the view that Robinson as a member would be a liability. Recall that AMW and Robinson were co-founders of UK Pegida. How did that work out?
I actually agreed with their concerns over the growth of Islam, but their tactics and approach were counter-productive. Chanting ‘oh Tommy Robinson’ was not going to persuade voters. Most of us freeborn English are instinctively put off by cults.
No party is perfect, uniting under one party and moulding it for the future is the only way to make progress.. I also miss my friends at UKIP so please rejoin and get organised!
Stout Y: “Ad hominem” and “Archaeology over people’s past without the prospect of redemption is very Stalinist”.
Generally speaking, doesn’t human nature (and Lefty organisations particularly) generally love to point a finger at a scapegoat, to make themselves look better; if they find some unsavoury gossip detration or or calumny about someone, doesn’t it just overjoy
them ;and they never forgive.
But in the case of the criticisms here against UKIP, I don’t think forgiveness is appropriate: if we have been let down badly by someone is it advisable to ever trust them again?
So trusting Stout – I know 2, totally unconnected, forensic accountants. We took one with us to visit a company making overtures to ours a few years ago as I sensed something was off. It was, it no longer exists. I happened to have the second one on the phone shortly before another probable ‘fishing’ Teams call and asked if he knew a particular associated company. He had a quick scrute of its CH listings and advised me to look in detail – also advised that we have b- all to do with them and when I looked I understood.
As the Good Book says – he who has ears….
Yes- Integrity was intended to be UKIP’s Momentum but the banana republic coup that followed was much worse. Wherever in the world we find banana republic style coups, whether in Gvt or boardroom, sure as eggs is eggs we fine corruption. I’m a happy Independent! When a party offers true conservative fiscal policy, prioritises outing the plant food scam, halting the resultant environmental damage from wind turbines and solar farms and getting back to a coherent energy policy, removing all wokery from schools and universities and also applies science to disease management then I might change my mind. I don’t hold out any hope
To poor Pier – yes, we all miss our UKIP friends but sadly it’s now a Monty Python joke – one former Kipper, with whom I am still in touch, sent a YouTube dead parrot sketch clip in response to a rejoin overture from the usurpers.
Another, who knows Colin & Stout from UKIP days, was horrified and embarrassed that those with such (concealed) ill intent should be confused with heroes. I won’t use the terms to describe the 2 major perps that my Kipper friend did but they were so concerned at the profundity of delusion and misanalyses that cognitive decline was suspected.
In its heyday we had more attendees at a county social than at the last 2 UKIP conferences. How could Skegness possible compare with, say, the 2014 Doncaster conference?
Define useless; any party/person not in office is useless in the sense of having no power. Interesting hour-long podcast of Nick Dixon interviewing Tice. He still says “Look, the reality is…” far too often; he could just start
with “So…” which others do. But that aside, they covered many topics and much came out and in more depth that I have not heard in the mundane snippet-style ‘morning TV’ inserts. Unlike most politicians, but like Farage, he doesn’t have to pause to mentally locate the correct party answer or what he has previously said he believes in. He knows what his answer to any topic is. Now you can disagree with his answers of course, but that is a different point. Personally I would like to see Ben Habib running Reform; much more engaging and able to crystallise problems and answers in clear simple terms. And his “Obliterate the Tories” is a good slogan.
I will vote for anyone standing who is outside the WEFtminster uniparty, or spoil my card if no other options as I did last time in my forgotten village.
POS…….the meaning of useless in a political sense in my book is promising something which will never be achieved, stating we will democratise the party by having members, but those members will not be able to decide who the leader is or decide policy and we will have 650 candidates at the next election who will end up doing everything themselves because there is no party infrastructure to support them. I have said many times that Ben Habib would make a far far better leader of Reform UK than Tice. He is a natural orator, has a personality, is interesting, and can more than hold his own in a debate, and is in the Farage mould. If he were leader I would have no hesitation whatsoever of joining the party. Belinda De Lucy would also in my opinion be a good leader. I think if Habib was the leader and De Lucy was the deputy leader and democratised the party structure I feel that they could sweep the board. Nigel Farage is now a lost cause and increasingly a wet blanket and Tice, well…he just lacks everything, and will not take that party forward.
Colin. I always remember Farage saying that running UKIP was like trying to herd cats! Maybe Farage and Tice feel a more top-down, tightly controlled, centrally planned and executed party structure is the only way to take on and win the establishment parties and manage the mischief of MSM at the same time? This is how the Brexit Party was managed for the last European elections and it was extremely effective as they took 29% of the Euro election seats.
My only hope is that this time around Tice and Farage really are sincere in wishing to take on and destroy the Tory Party.
Jake……you cannot compare winning the European Parliament elections with say a General Election in this country. First and foremost, with the European elections the vote is based on proportional representation, and the electorate are voting for a party rather than an individual candidate. The more votes a party wins determines the number of candidates on the list who are elected. With first past the post in this country as you know the electorate are voting for a named person on the ballot paper in addition to the party. Because the constituencies are very much larger in Euro elections, doorstep canvassing is virtually impossible whereas first past the vote, doorstep canvassing and knocking up the vote is an absolute necessity if one intends to stand any chance of being elected. As I have stated on this site on many occasion serious political parties have large local campaign teams, who leaflet the constituency, do doorstep canvassing, and on polling day man all the polling stations around the clock, get the vote out and operate a committee room. And in order for all this to occur, serious political parties need to have a country wide and active branch structure to recruit candidates and activists. With UKIP there was indeed such a branch structure in place and some branches were successful and some were not. With Reform UK none of this exists, and everything that you have rightly mentioned is organised from the centre, which has hamstrung the party in the past and will continue to do so in the future unless a branch structure is put in place. Anyone who thinks a party can win any seats let form a government with this sort of set up in place lives in cloud cuckoo land, and that is why I stood down as a Reform UK candidate myself, having also been a constituency campaign organiser. Richard Tice has absolutely no experience whatsoever of running a political party, and sadly it shows.
Well said PoS.!
I too would like to see Ben Habib as Reform leader.
What I don’t understand is why it has not started building proper branches, the sort of structure that builds loyalties and campaign teams. I understand why The Brexit Party, as started by Nigel was thus constructed – Nigel didn’t have any time for the democratic structures in UKIP- but once he stepped down and took the honorary title, Tice had a clear run at it.
Good luck with your campaign Helena.
WI policy states anyone “who is living as a woman is welcome” whereas Hague’s point is “There are transgender people, they have changed their gender. This is part of our society now. And I think large national organisations like the WI have to get over that and get used to that, and welcome new people.”
The meaning of “…living as a woman” is not clear. Women use female only toilets and changing rooms and compete in female only sports. Is that “living as a woman”? Whether men pretending to be women (rather than men who transition medically under the Gender Recognition Act 2004) can do the same is currently highly contested. They can no longer compete in women’s sports, now defined as for biologically female, and there is a growing campaign to keep them out of biologically female only spaces. The meaning of “living as a women” is in flux. But, so is the meaning of “transgender” now that the government plans to amend the Equality Act.
When Hague says “there are transgender people” does he mean genuinely transitioned or does he mean men pretending to be women because they feel like it? There may be people whose “sense of personal identity does not correspond with their birth sex” but who have not transitioned medically, though one suspects that many are just chancers and some using the opportunity to get access to women in vulnerable spaces (58 sexual assaults in prisons by transwomen and an unknown but larger number of assaults in hospitals).
It used to be the case that it was thought gender dsyphoria was a pink brain in a blue body (and vice versa) and after medical diagnosis this mismatch was corrected with hormone treatment and surgery. ie. the body was mutilated to conform to the brain. Curiously, there were far more pink brains in blue bodies than blue brains in pink bodies. Easier to chop off a willy than construct one of course. Now bodies are left alone and society at large is mutilated into affirming a fantasy or delusion. What was a purely medical issue has become about power, an individual’s issue has become a social and political one.
There is some push back at last but not nearly enough.
Unless there is a genuine hermaphrodite somewhere then we are all males or females. I accept some are “queer” but that is a mental issue, not a physical one. The worst aspect of all this is the indoctrination of the young through their “education”. As you suggest we need far more resistance to this apparent stupidity, perhaps better classified as another attempt at control by those who aspire to absolute rule over us.
Well said Jack, my sympathies are with the children these days. Only their parents are the real safety valve
Off topic Ukraine- one or two here were speculating on life expectancy of the handful Western tanks. They shall sweep all before them. Here’s the first one ‘knocked out’.
https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/5989
It beats me why there there is so much hooha about trans people/perverts. They are only a tiny percentage of the population. (Except perhaps in the field of celebrities where we seem to have good numbers of them).
Do you know any? I know of one possibility. (A sad and antisocial person.)
Re. male & female wards. The case often arises when there are no spaces in say a female ward and though there are spaces in the male ward, a female can’t be admitted.
This has long been a problem.
I can see the temptation to have mixed wards and be able to use all the beds but then we have the perverts amongst us to consider.
Harry F Again- there are loadsabeds in the many Nightingale hopitals.
And they were custom made at enormous expense. Why aren’t we using them?
I know of one which was dismantled after never being used; perhaps there are some still in existence?
I think you are confused as to what a “Nighingale Ward” is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightingale_ward
HFAgain- *Hospital*.
wikipedia = invalid ref for anyone serious. Try again with a credible source.
HA……..I think Biscotte was talking of Nightingale Hospitals. I have never heard of a ‘Nighingale ward’. Does the wind blow hard through them? On a serious note all of the Nightingale Hospitals have closed down as they weren’t needed
Read the Wiki link above.
Remember, I spent thirty years working in the NHS
Nightingale after Florence Nightingale.