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”
Colin
If you look at the teaching for women and relationships in islam i can
think of more than 15 reasons not to join then. Yet we keep saying its
kind and peaceful?? as they get more adn more political power. Why don’t you spend time trying to stop forced
marrieages, honour killings and femail mutilation? there are thousands
of these cases in the democratic west yet the police and state are
ignoring because of fear of uprisals?! 90% of traffic on the interenet
is pornography, often amongst judges, politicians and police. The horse
has bolted and the enemy is already within, so no party has squaky clean
hands! We need to get back to God and morality~ look at the 1904 Welsh
revival on the net. This was when crime on all levels in society ceased and the police and
judges formed clubs and societies as there was nothing for them to do! That is the reality of Christianity in action and the closer we get back to God the less neighbours from hell! If we love our neighbour as our self the war is over. William Wilberforce a born again christian campaigned for 40 yrs to abolish slavery and yes the best and only schools in the beginning (including Eaton) were christian ones which are still over subscribed today even by muslim families! The problem with society is a moral issue as people don’t trust our leaders. Through greed and corruption (moral sickness) we’ve allowed the banks and politicians to destroy our economies and there are even text books out there on the benefits of human greed?! the world has literally gone mad!
Colin
Even so the larger parties are very worried about this pint sized party! the voice of the people adn common sense shall be heard!
If you look at the teaching for women and relationships in islam i can
think of more than 15 reasons not to join then. Yet we keep saying its
kind and peaceful?? as they get more adn more political power. Why don’t
you spend time trying to stop forced
marrieages, honour killings and femail mutilation? there are thousands
of these cases in the democratic west yet the police and state are
ignoring because of fear of uprisals?! 90% of traffic on the interenet
is pornography, often amongst judges, politicians and police. The horse
has bolted and the enemy is already within, so no party has squaky clean
hands! We need to get back to God and morality~ look at the 1904 Welsh
revival on the net. This was when crime on all levels in society ceased
and the police and
judges formed clubs and societies as there was nothing for them to do!
That is the reality of Christianity in action and the closer we get back
to God the less neighbours from hell! If we love our neighbour as our
self the war is over. William Wilberforce a born again christian
campaigned for 40 yrs to abolish slavery and yes the best and only
schools in the beginning (including Eaton) were christian ones which are
still over subscribed today even by muslim families! The problem with
society is a moral issue as people don’t trust our leaders. Through
greed and corruption (moral sickness) we’ve allowed the banks and
politicians to destroy our economies and there are even text books out
there on the benefits of human greed?! the world has literally gone mad!
Colin
The labour party and media tried a smear campaign last time against UKIP its just not working is it?!
Kevin Baker
What a load of Bollox. Just go to the UKIP main website, then look at “policies for people”.
UKIP Policy Announcement;
I am happy to confirm that UKIP will scrap the Work
Capability Assessment as used by ATOS & MAXIMUS. It doesn’t work, brings
about absurd results and has been a very costly disaster!
Disabled, Chronically Ill and Sick people who claim ESA
(sickness benefits) will no longer be assessed under the WCA system.
UKIP say Bye Bye, ATOS & their expensive chums MAXIMUS
& Capita!
Further info to follow but I have had clearance to disclose
this part of our Welfare & Disability Policy.
I’m sure the end of the ATOS/MAXIMUS style WCA’s will be
seen as another UKIP common sense policy.
Please share & let people know that UKIP cannot &
will not stand by whilst a ridiculous system persecutes the most vulnerable!
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1380213205633762&id=100009352861222&pnref=story
All in together
Farage wasn’t a banker he was a futures trader, in metals, he made money by understanding the markets, he made bids using his knowledge, on the future price increases. Remember Gordon Browns dalliance in the futures market with UK gold reserves. Buy one get two free was his sales pitch, along with his protege, Ed the Balls up he cant even remember names of his party’s backers/