Thursday, 2 July 2015

The Lanchester Review: How the Struggle of British Fathers Was Born in the Labour Party

Matt O'Connor explains.
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  1. Anonymous4 July 2015 at 15:01

    O'Connor is right-UKIP did indeed include a presumption of equal parenting in their 2015 manifesto as did the Tories in 2010. But in his withering critique of Labour's appalling record, he doesn't include many of the other anti father things Labour did.

    Labour legalised lesbian adoption, thus implicitly saying fathers don't matter.

    Labour abolished the childs "right to a father" from the criteria for adoption or IVF. Labour's Equality Act effectively outlawed Christianity-by outlawing any discrimination on the basis of marital status, sexual orientation or gender and imposing a duty to actively promote Equality and Diversity on all public bodies and businesses, even if they don't believe in it.

    Thus we get Evangelical foster parents forced to tell children homosexuality is good or lose their foster children and Christian bakeries forced to write promotional material for homosexual partnerships or face financial penalties.

    Like the Conmunists forced even dissenting people to hang red flags from their flats on Mayday Parades.

    That's what it's like to live in a leftwing dictatorship, Mr O'Connor.

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    1. David Lindsay4 July 2015 at 15:29

      Calm down, dear. I know it's hot, but even so. Open a window. And then tread the article, since you clearly haven't.

      Matt's, and Fathers 4 Justice's, closest political ally is George Galloway. 104 MPs signed Galloway's EDM in support of shared parenting, but neither of the then UKIP MPs were among those 104.

      Four of Galloway's five co-sponsors were Labour, and the fifth was from the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

      49 of the signatories were Labour, one was Plaid Cymru, one was SDLP, one was Green (the only Green MP), and one was Sylvia Hermon. With Galloway, that gave the Left a clear overall majority of the signatories.

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  2. Anonymous4 July 2015 at 20:38

    I read it very carefully. And the facts I laid out are the facts. UKIP (and the Tories) are the only parties to have included F4J's campaign aims in their manifestos.

    He wrote all the terrible things Labour did as if New Labour had betrayed him-when it was in fact never on his side. It legalised lesbian adoption, abolished the "childs right to a father" from the criteria for IVF, passed the anti-Christian Equality Act and wiped all mention of marriage from 3,000 official documents.

    And if he thinks this is a "human rights" issue, he should stop to think why the Human Rights Act hasn't done one scintilla for the cause of fatherhood.

    It was however used by Leftwing activist judges to legalise homosexual activity at 16 (a ruling enthusiastically enscted by Labour) and grant foreign criminals the right to stay here, though.

    Think on that, Mr Connor. Human Rights are plainly not your friend.

    As for George "God knows who is a Muslim" Galloway, it's not respectful to mention him in polite society.

    He's an embarassment even to his own side now.

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    1. David Lindsay4 July 2015 at 20:41

      Then you certainly haven't read the article. Or today's additional post on this.

      I contacted Matt (this time, anyway) specifically because I had seen him on Galloway's unmissable Sputnik programme.

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  3. Anonymous4 July 2015 at 20:45

    He was the one who made that point about UKIP and the Tories. I'll just quote the articles description of Labour below.

    Matt O'Connor writes;

    ""One Labour MP railed on BBC Radio 5 Live that we were the worst campaign group he had ever heard of. But he had heard of us.

    Another Labour MP berated our methodology. I told him that without people like us, people who fought for basic human rights, the Labour Party would never have existed.

    So why have the Labour Party abandoned Britain’s fathers when the party and the trade unions were set up by poor, working class men? In one word, feminism.

    Feminism was once a noble cause, fearlessly trailblazed by the Suffragettes who demonstrated immense courage in the face of a hostile public.

    Yet the cause has been hijacked by extremists. A party that was once committed to equality and justice for all, is in the ideological grip of a pernicious, fraudulent creed that makes victims of women and demonises men.

    Led by Harriet Harman, feminism in the Labour Party peddles a malevolent falsehood to women.

    Where instead of achieving equality and improved working rights, women have been herded into poverty pay, plantation labour and fatherless families.

    It has turned women against men and driven fathers from families with catastrophic consequences for our children. It has left women either hooked on state benefits, shackled to a till, or worse, a lap dancers pole.

    That 1 in 3 children now lives without a father is living proof of this chilling act of social engineering. Yes, we have a Minister for Women and Equalities, but where is the Minister for Men and Boys?""

    Want me to quote any more?

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    1. David Lindsay4 July 2015 at 20:52

      Well, all of 13 Tories signed Galloway's EDM (F4J is very, very much part of the Galloway Coalition, like the London cabbies; look out for them both as the mayoral election gets going), which was Matt's main point. And neither of the Kippers then in Parliament did.

      The majority of those who did sign it were from the Left, and almost half were Labour. Banging the drum for UKIP just sounds silly now, anyway.

      You really should watch Sputnik. This week's is on for the last time at 11:30 tonight.

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