Justice for Men and Boys

Justice for Men and Boys
(and the Women Who Love Them)
Abbreviation J4MB
Leader Mike Buchanan
Founded 6 February 2013 (2013-02-06)
Ideology Pro-men's and boys' rights, anti-feminist
Website
Blog via WordPress

Justice for Men and Boys (and the Women Who Love Them) - J4MB - is a British political party which advocates for men's and boys' rights and opposes feminism.

Background

The party was founded in 2013,[1][2] and is led by retired businessman, and former Conservative Party consultant, Mike Buchanan.[3] He is the author of 10 books, a number of them concerned with gender politics, most recently: Feminism: The Ugly Truth.

J4MB is the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys on many fronts. It is also the only anti-feminist political party in the English-speaking world[3] and has become the subject of controversy in the British media, having been covered in articles[4][5][6][7][8][9] and in television,[10] radio[11] and print[3][12] interviews. This led to the commissioning of Mike Buchanan as a columnist by the International Business Times, the relationship was terminated because his submitted (but unpublished) articles courted controversy,[13] The two articles which were published, were on the subject of male suicide[14] and female representation in corporate boardrooms.[15]

The party also issues awards for “lying feminist of the month”, “toxic feminist of the month” and “whiny feminist of the month” and includes a link to an article entitled "13 reasons women lie about being raped" on its website.[16]

In its 2015 general election manifesto,[17] the party explored twenty areas in which the human rights of men and boys in the UK are being violated.[10]

The party co-hosted the second International Conference on Men's Issues[18] in London, between 8-10 July 2016 in association with A Voice for Men.

Philip Davies MP, a member of the Justice Select Committee, spoke to the conference asserting that the criminal justice system favours women's over men's rights. However, Jenny Earle, director of Prison Reform Trust’s programme for reducing women’s imprisonment, said: “The evidence is not that women are treated more leniently. In fact they are twice as likely as men to receive a custodial sentence for a first offence, and the main offence for which women are imprisoned is theft and shoplifting.”[16]

In response, Buchanan points to analysis published in a blog by Men's Rights Advocates in the UK (MRA-UK). The blog extrapolates data regarding sentencing, prison population and parole figures to claim that there is a gender bias in favour of women.[19]

Electoral performance

The party stood for election for the first time at the 2015 general election, with two candidates. Party leader Mike Buchanan stood in Ashfield against the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, Gloria De Piero. Buchanan came last with 153 votes out of 47,409 cast. Ray Barry stood in Broxtowe and also came last with 63 votes out of 53,440 cast.[20]

On 28th September 2016, Mike Buchanan announced his intention to stand against Prime Minister, Theresa May, in her Maidenhead constituency in the 2020 general election.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Rose, Joel (2 September 2014). "For Men's Rights Groups, Feminism Has Come At The Expense Of Men". NPR. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Buchanan, Mike (6 February 2013). "URGENT: Imminent public meeting in Wales concerning domestic abuse – Merthyr Tydfil, 14 February (blog)". j4mb.wordpress.com. Justice for Men and Boys via WordPress. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Ross, Jamie (14 January 2015). "An Anti-Feminist Party Is Standing In The General Election". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Staff writer (14 January 2015). "The anti-feminist party standing for parliament (and their unwieldy name)". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. ↑ Fordy, Tom (15 January 2015). "An anti-feminist political party is depressing news for men and women". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Bennett, Catherine (18 January 2015). "Justice for Men and Boys' hatred of feminism eclipses its remit to help men". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Smith, Lydia (14 January 2015). "Justice for Men and Boys: The anti-feminist party standing in the general election". International Business Times. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Deacon, Michael (17 January 2015). "In a woman's world, we men need Mike". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  9. ↑ Baxter, Holly; Cosslett, Rhiannon Lucy (7 January 2013). "Coming soon to an angry dude near you - the "pro-men" party". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  10. 1 2 Phillip Schofield (presenter), Christine Bleakley (presenter), Caroline Criado-Perez (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) (15 January 2015). "Britain's most controversial politician?". This Morning. Event occurs at 11.33am. ITV Network Ltd. ITV. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Staff writer (14 March 2013). "Do men need a political party to defend their rights?". BBC News. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  12. ↑ Nianias, Helen (14 January 2015). "'Feminists hate men': Meet Mike Buchanan, the leader of Britain's new Justice for Men and Boys Party". The Independent. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Buchanan, Mike. "'International Business Times' – our articles (blog)". j4mb.wordpress.com. Justice for Men and Boys via WordPress. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  14. ↑ Buchanan, Mike (24 March 2015). "Male suicide scandal: UK men are paying for a system that drives thousands of them to death". International Business Times. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Buchanan, Mike (9 March 2015). "Cameron's naive crusade for boardroom gender diversity will only hurt Britain". International Business Times. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  16. 1 2 Grierson, Jamie (12 August 2016). "Pressure mounts on PM to respond to Philip Davies' 'feminist zealots' comments". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  17. ↑ Buchanan, Mike (28 December 2014). Justice for Men and Boys (and the Women who Love them): General Election Manifesto 2015. Justice for Men and Boys. Pdf.
  18. ↑ Buchanan, Mike (11 July 2016). "The conference was a resounding success (blog)". icmi16.wordpress.com. Justice for Men and Boys via WordPress. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  19. ↑ MRA-UK. "UK Prisoners - The Genders Compared". mra-uk.co.uk. Steve Moxon via WordPress. This leads me to the following staggering conclusion, Men are subject to massive gender discrimination in the criminal justice system. If male offenders were treated in the same way as female offenders there would be only one-sixth of the number of men in prison.
  20. ↑ Staff writer (13 April 2015). "Election 2015: HS2 divides Broxtowe candidates". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  21. ↑ Witherden, Grace (28 September 2016). "'Men's rights' campaigner announces bid to oust Theresa May from Maidenhead seat". Maidenhead Advertiser. Baylis Media Ltd. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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