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'Justice for Men and Boys' party manifesto... Just because....

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sparechange · 23/04/2015 17:49

I can't see any other threads about this, but apologies if there are.
I've just seen this on Twitter and can't get my head around it not being a spoof.
I don't even know where to start picking out the gems. There is nothing in it approaching sane policy, and the contradictions are amazing
Under education, they want to introduce all-boys schools, with all-male staff
Then under employment, they want to remove the ability to specify gender for certain roles

j4mb.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/141228-v7-general-election-manifesto.pdf

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DuckChowMein · 24/04/2015 14:16

I've only just started reading the document but so far have seen nothing to do with justice for men and boys, only injustice for women and girls. Women should be charged with gbh if fas is proven and face a custodial penalty-9-16 years. Wow.

DuckChowMein · 24/04/2015 14:21

And men are disincented to marry because they're punished in divorce?

I don't think I'll read the rest. I've got the gist.

Utter trip. It's just a very wordy way of saying 'its not fair!'

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 24/04/2015 17:03

That isn't Justice For Men and Boys. It's Take Rights Away From Women and Girls.

hopefultess · 24/04/2015 18:31

slug and sparechange, what scares me even more is that I think there will be some people who might actually vote for one of the 3 candidates.

OublietteBravo · 24/04/2015 19:30

They aren't standing in my constituency and their van is bloody well parked on my street again. I object to it lowering the tone of the neighbourhood.

Andrewofgg · 26/04/2015 08:16

hepfeultess All these crackpot candidates garner a few score votes - even twats have the franchise!

A thought. If prisoners get the vote it will be about 80,000 votes scattered over the 651 constituencies so it's not going to change anything - but would anyone like to guess which constituencies might get more than others and which party might get more of the extra votes than others?

UnoPan · 26/04/2015 09:08

Slightly surprised Mr Buchannan hasn't turned up here so far.

Sansarya · 26/04/2015 09:12

Wasn't the leader of this party a regular on MN until HQ banned him? I think he used to troll the feminism chat board.

maroonedwithfour · 26/04/2015 09:28

Wow.....bitter and twisted spring to mind.

TheBlackRider · 26/04/2015 09:53

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Andrewofgg · 26/04/2015 10:51

TheBlackRider I don't think anyone has suggested that prisoners should vote in the constituency where their prison is - it would be where they were registered before they were arrested. By post Smile.

flora717 · 26/04/2015 11:18

3 candidates in the Nottingham area. Wow. I am slightly alarmed that some of this aligns with crap my ex spouts ... and he's actually from there. What on earth is going on in Nottingham?

TheBlackRider · 26/04/2015 13:00

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Icimoi · 26/04/2015 13:04

It's also clear that it will never be the case that every prisoner will get the vote. All that the court ruling required was that the government should have a coherent policy on prisoner voting rather than a blanket ban, which makes sense given that prisoners on shorter sentences will be released before the next election and, sometimes, days or weeks after an election. I doubt it will make much difference anywhere in electoral terms.

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