As we now enter party conference season it is always worth looking at what is happening on the promotion of women, anti-male propaganda and also the purposeful ignorance of male related issues (sexism by omission).
At the Lib Dem conference, we can see the Campaign for Gender Balance, which is trying to bring in sexism and special treatment in the selection of candidates - an issue that Labour have been using for years (all women-shortlists) as have the Conservatives (A Lists, quotas, hand picked candidates).
The Lib Dems don't go as far as those two parties but nonetheless they have women-only training, extra financial support and mentoring. They also had a whole raft of special sessions at the conference on political campaigning and training which were for women-only.
This of course from another party that talks about fairness and equality but actually practices sexism against half of the population.
The conundrum that must face any Lib Dem though is that in their minds a 'working class' boy with a poor education living on a run down council estate has more opportunities of becoming a Lib Dem candidate and Member of Parliament than a female barrister brought up in Fulham who went to Rodean public school. This proves how sexist this nonsense is and how it just means there is no equality in British democracy.
Posted by Skimmington
PS: Coming next week - Labour bans men from conference hall for women-only debate.
If things continue at this rate there swill soon be hardly anyone left for people with a conscience to vote for.
I'm not really the biggest fan of UKIP but one day that may well be the only major party left which isn't sexist.
Posted by: John Kimble | Wednesday, 21 September 2011 at 03:18