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UPDATE

Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.

Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.

This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.

The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.

Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.

As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.

Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.

But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.

Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.

And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.

Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.

Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.


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  • MerkinScot

    Louise : “Assange is on trial for rape.”
    .
    No, he is not. Any evidence that he is?
    No, because there is none.
    Louise, Porkie pies do not a logical point make.
    Try again.

  • MerkinScot

    Herbie, brilliant!
    .
    “But, as I’ve said, she is rather dim:

    “Louise Mensch adds yet another Twitter gaffe to her list”

    “Louise Mensch has once again become the subject of much ridicule online over something she has tweeted. The incident occurred last night after the former Tory MP claimed Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters — who have recently been accused of being anti-semitic — were insulting Corbyn’s Labour leadership rival Liz Kendall.”

    “Alas there was a catch. As each suggestion appeared next to an ‘x’, this means that the words were her own search history rather than the work of an evil Corbynista.”

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/louise-mensch-adds-yet-another-twitter-gaffe-to-her-list/

    So she could use the “just stoopid” defence.”
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    Would she pass The Turing test? I think not.

  • Clark

    Node, 4:58 pm:

    At 3.15, Louise Mensch’s comment appeared on this blog.
    At 3.36 Louise Mensch complained on Twitter :
    Therefore she lasted 21 minutes before talking bollocks

    Node, you’re being too generous because her original comment was also bollocks. In addition to the flaws already highlighted, there is this blooper which I initially missed:

    “If a woman consents to sex only a with a condom, raping her without one is rape”

    Well, yes. I think she meant penetration.

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    His past is catching up with him.

    “Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has been interviewed in connection with a rape allegation dating from 2006.

    Lancashire Police said a 49-year-old old man had “voluntarily” attended a station by prior appointment.”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35297262

  • Republicofscotland

    “What utter guff. Assange is on trial for rape. What he is accused of is rape. He’s a misogynist little turd. And a racist. If a woman consents to sex only a with a condom, raping her without one is rape in both English and Swedish law. Can’t wait to see him on trial.

    Your article is the purest bullshit.

    I hope this helps. Louise”

    ___________________

    I’m afraid Louise it’s not very helpful at all.

    Mr Assange cannot in all honesty at the moment clear his name. His human rights may be violated if he’s extradited. The Swedish prosecutors have already dropped two charges against Mr Assange, one of coercion and the other of, sexual molestation.

    So for you to call him a “misogynist, and a little turd” without proving your allegations is at best foolish.

    Mr Assange says,( and quite rightly in my opinion) he still fears being sent to the US for releasing secret documents on the Wikileaks website.

    It’s not that long ago, that renditioned flight were outed in Britain, flying from Scottish and English airports.

  • Republicofscotland

    Anyway Louise I’d have thought you’d have learned your lesson after the Peirs Morgan debacle, you no longer have “Parliamentary Privilege” to hide behind.

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Now we are going back over the ruse by which Assange escaped from Sweden, Britain allowed him in, and allowed him to find political sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy after the murder of leaker of the Afghan File to The Guardian for unredacted publication, putting him in a no man’s land which all the players found most convenient.

    Heaven forbid that there is any trial of Assange for anything!

  • John Goss

    In fairness to Louise Mensch she is a creative writer and novelist. Perhaps she has reached a stage in her life when she cannot separate fact from fiction. And what a mouth she’s got on ‘er. Blimey what a mouth she’s got.

    “He’s a misogynist little turd. And a racist.”

    “Your article is the purest bullshit.”

    “The sewer that is Jeremy Corbyn’s support.”

    Anybody can make a mistake. Anybody can make an enemy. To be able to make mistakes and enemies at the rate Ms Mensch makes them, especially regarding the consensual sex between Julian Assange and Sofia Wilen – she clearly hasn’t grasped yet it is the Yanks behind the framing – wants some beating.

    Anybody read any of her novels? I bet they’re funny. 😀

  • John Goss

    Ms Mensch is clearly a product of privilege. One of her novels is called When she was bad . . .

    “Bagshawe has the knack of making you love her heroines however badly they behave. . . ” Express

    No wonder she is in support of (CIA asset?) Anna Ardin.

  • Doug Scorgie

    Republicofscotland
    12 Jan, 2016 – 2:48 pm

    “Mr Murdoch has been around the block a few times this will be his fourth marriage, maybe he likes wedding cake. Still a shrewd and calculating man of Mr Murdoch’s stature, must know what he’s doing.”
    …………………………………………………………………………………………

    He wasn’t shrewd enough to stop Tony Blair (allegedly) shagging his last wife.

  • exexpat

    Gold meets digger? Can you imagine Rupert on the job? Prob needs team of 12 staff to carefully position the lovely couple. I think I have made myself wretch.

  • Becky Cohen

    Hmmm…I’m a bit confused over why so many people on this forum feel that it would be a travesty if Julian Assange were to go to trial. Surely he needs to go to trial to prove either his innocence or guilt – just like many of you pointed out with regards to Greville Janner?

  • exexpat

    Yes Doug it’s very convenient that 8 Germans were killed… gives synergy to the zeitgeist no?

  • Clark

    Becky Cohen, 8:36 pm, I for one would have no objection to Assange facing a fair tried, though we here nothing of Ardin’s submission of false evidence or of giving the story to the Swedish press, neither of which bode well for a fair trial. So far as I know, Assange wants the chance to clear his name.

    Considering how much adverse press coverage Assange has received, there’s probably no chance of a fair trial any more and the charges should be dropped for that reason.

    But until there are cast iron assurances that Assange would not be incarcerated for his publishing, he would be a fool to surrender himself to custody.

  • Macky

    RobG; “Has Habba returned in drag as Louise Mensch?”

    I was going to say that Mensch makes our trolls here look intelligent, but you could be right as there isn’t much in it ! 😀

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