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”
Charlotte Mattin
And yet women run childcare work places. No men work in 90% of nurseries and children clubs. And the vast majority of teachers are women. Im 18 years old and have full qualifications and work full time at a really good job in which I do well. Womrn can do what they want and anyone who voted UKIP need their heads banged together as they are disgusting sexist pigs. And messed up towards disabled people.
Nath
If a national Brit has been bested by someone from a shitty part of eastern Europe with no money, contacts and questionable knowledge of the language then what the fuck good are they anyway? Most people in Britain just don’t want to work hard and that’s their own damn fault. Get up and get after it instead of complaining all day and wasting your vote on a party that was irrelevant yesterday, is irrelevant today and will likely be irrelevant indefinitely.
Colleen
Good god, I know ukip were kind of in the dark ages but that’s just wrong, so what if a women have a child it’s not goin to make her a bad employed,
matthew
hi i have 2 diplomas and a postgraduate yet have to do a jod beneath me . i am not uneducated and i have voted ukip . i think you can see why in another country i could do what i am trained too and if britain doesn’t change may be i will leave ?
Ryan Murphy
It’s ridiculous that so many people can not see the obvious thing about UKIP. Nearly every single politician that’s switched to them has been from the conservatives, (an actual fact that I remember reading not long ago on the bbc news website). That should tell you all you need to know not to vote for them, they’re switching because the conservative party is not right wing ENOUGH for them, which clearly indicates that UKIP IS.(or they would be making their own damn parties). If you do not like the policies from the last five years and yet vote for UKIP and they win then prepare yourself for policies ten times worse with the countries integrity and pride for our openness and acceptance of other people and cultures from around the world in tatters, a government which resembles that of Hitler and the nazi party, along with the economies destruction all along the way. I am ashamed of the amount of ignorance and hate towards other human beings that is in my country of origin as it is, never mind if such a party as UKIP were to be in any sort of power over it.