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”
Tasha
I know….thats why it was to him….
I was totally on your side.
Jonathan Brockett
What policy does UKIP Have in it’s manifesto that you deem racist or are you talking about a specific candidate or do you believe as some do that even the discussion about immigration is racist. If I said that we should check criminal records of foreners wishing to come here, is this racist in your view as by mentioning criminal and foreners in same sentence must be racist.
UKIP is racist because it has had members who have said racist things who have been thrown out for this?
British jobs for British people was probably the only racist thing that I personally heard a UKIP CANDIDATE say and that was Nigel.
I personally did not like him saying this and it did remind me of a Labour prime minister Gordon Brown who also said this,the racist oh no wait a sec no one could possibly suggest that any other party has issues with racists within the ranks it’s only UKIP.
Gordon Brown may have said British jobs for British people but he could not deliver on this as European law would not allow this as that would be Racist.
Under Labour government positive discrimination was allowed making racism against the White / British /male/heterosexual / majority / Christian legal, this just caused more tension and racism but is still seen as ok by the left. I do not understand this thinking is battling racism about treating everyone the same regardless of colour or creed or not, these far left policies have led to UKIP persueing policies that would benefit only the British regardless of race creed or sexuality.
I Do not believe UKIP is racist but I am sure that some supporters are, as are some conservatives and a fair amount of Labour supporters.
UKIP is however the party that tries to ignore political correctness and courts controversy, likes to wind up the left and often steps over the mark causing offence to many people who wish to be offended and some that probably don’t.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO STATE UKIP IS RACIST QUALIFY THIS STATEMENT WITH EVIDENCE OR AT LEAST YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS
“UKIP is racist” is just such a lazy statement.
And of course the truth is that The Labour Party is racist just against its own people.
Yasmin
Oh, I’m sorry, and thankyou. I got confused.
Jonathan Brockett
I must be really thick what does “morally intellectual” mean. Don’t get me wrong I understand the meaning of each word separately but erm I had no idea morallity was a university course one could take.
James
Most of these comments make me sick. Most of the people who grow up in the UK at some point of their lives are coerced to contribute to society as a whole and ‘do the right thing’. How can you blame a massive rise in popularity for a party who is stating the obvious and basically saying what all hard working British people are saying – ‘we have had enough!’ – we want our taxes reinvested in to this country to benefit the people that actually contribute whether it be working class or ‘upper class’!. We don’t want people coming here and grabbing benefits when they have contributed nothing in to the system. We want growth and prosperity for the people of this country first – charity begins at home and i’m so thankful for UKIP because it is a taste of what is to come if the politicians
do not act in the best interest of the people which is meant to be the foundations of democracy.. I just hope to god that the wars that our ancestors fought doesn’t go to waste through lies, deception and keeping people in the dark. The inequality in this country sickens me and it is high time the elites addressed this and made serious changes to the modern society we all reside in.