Thinking of voting for UKIP tomorrow? If you care even a jot about the rights of women, think on.
Thinking of voting for UKIP tomorrow?
If you care even a jot about the rights of women, think on.
Here are 15 reasons why women (and men who believe in equality of the sexes) should sooner drink poison than vote for the Kippers tomorrow.
1. Nigel Farage on women: “Godfrey’s [Bloom, former UKIP MEP] comment that ‘no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman‘ has been proved so right. With this lunacy, that if you have children you get three months paid leave off work, or six months paid leave off work – he absolutely got it spot on.”
2. UKIP want to scrap paid maternity leave (in line with Lesotho, Swaziland, the US and Papua New Guinea).
3. UKIP want to make it legal for employers to discriminate on the basis of gender (as well as race).
4. This would also entail the scrapping of employment regulations against sexual harassment and safeguards for part time and irregular workers, the majority of which are women.
5. Nigel Farage informed City high flyers that they are “worth less” to employers if they become mothers or that motherhood is a lifestyle choice.
6. Patrick O’Flynn, MEP Candidate, also say that pregnant women in the workplace are a “disaster”.
7. UKIP’s MEPs have consistently failed to represent the interests of women. They have voted against or simply not turned up to key votes in the European Parliament on ensuring equal pay, combating violence against women and ruling out FGM, to name but a few.
8. Since the 2009 European Election UKIP’s only two female MEPs, Nikki Sinclaire and Marta Andreasen, have both left the party. Andreason said Farage “doesn’t try to involve intelligent professional women in positions of responsibility in the party. He thinks women should be in the kitchen or in the bedroom”. Nikki Sinclaire won an Employment Tribunal claim for sex discrimination against the party.
9. Roger Helmer, UKIP MEP and candidate in the Newark by-election, said, “Rape is always wrong, but not always equally culpable.”
10. Godfrey Bloom, a former UKIP MEP, was not reprimanded for hugely sexist statements such as, “[feminists are] shrill, bored, middle-class women of a certain physical genre” and, “Women, in spite of years of training in art and music – and significant leisure time in the 18th and 19th Centuries – have produced few great works”
11. Stuart Wheeler, the party’s treasurer, said that women were “absolutely nowhere” when they compete with men in sports where they are not physically disadvantaged. He said, “I would just like to challenge the idea that it is necessary to have a lot of women or a particular number on a board… Business is very, very competitive and you should take the performance of women in another competitive area, which is sport where [men] have no strength advantage.”
12. In November 2013, UKIP MEP, Stuart Agnew said (in a debate on women in the boardroom) that “Women don’t have the ambition to get to the top, something gets in the way. It’s called a baby… Those females who really want to get to the top do so”.
13. David Chalice , a senior party official in Exeter, has voiced his belief that women should stay at home and that “cash-strapped Moslems” should have multiple wives.
14. Demetri Marchessini, the party’s sixth-largest individual donor in 2013, said there was no such thing as marital rape, arguing: “If you make love on Friday and make love Sunday, you can’t say Saturday is rape.” He also claimed women should be banned from wearing trousers because they “discourage love-making”.
15. Need I go on?
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512 Responses to “15 reasons women shouldn’t vote for UKIP”
anjie
People who have education won`t vote for ukip. Only so under class people do it.Because they don`t know the reason why immigrants are here.So why waste time?Vote green party.hate ukip.idiots
Jonathan Brockett
UKIP manifesto makes sense, unfortunately when they open their mouths they can’t help but be offensive to someone.
The Greens on the other hand seem very sensible until you read their manifesto, at which point in disbelief you check you are on the correct website and re read assuming that you must of read it wrong but no! Wow they are crazy hippies who believe no one should really go to jail for criminal offences. In fact crime should be decriminalised and no longer exist. Sorted except for extremely violent crime and only then if there is likelihood of reoffending.
Sounds like a navarna for friends of Jimmy Saville.
Tax businesses and the wealthy individuals until the squeak or leave and pack their bags for them if they wish to go.
And then employ everyone in the public sector on the same average wage ensuring it is low enough that the people cannot afford to buy goods as this increases the carbon footprint.
As long as the planet survives (and Africans)the west can die.
NO THANKS
Jonathan Brockett
Yep, UKIP have done well this is down to two things firstly Nigel Farage, Steven Woolfe, Suzanne Evans and Diane James giving a consistent message and secondly and in my view more importantly a clear sensible manifesto. But I guess anyone who hates UKIP never read it as they had already believed the views of others and would be scared to think for themselves. The racist slur has unfortunately stuck but the people who say it struggle to defend this view with any logic so just scream it loudly. Sadly this does work. Because some people are morons who believe that this world would be fair and a better place if everybody had equality in every aspect of life including wealth, jobs, education, without any understanding of why that would not work, if fact no one would bother to work what would be the point.
anjie
all right mate.calm down….no need to be so stressy!all I can see is a load of rubbish…..
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