Radical Feminist BBC Radio Nottingham Thinks Men Are Irrelevant - Has An All-Women Audience At The Ashfield Hustings

On Friday 17 April 2015 Mike Buchanan received a call from Ray Barry, the J4MB candidate in the Broxtowe constituency. He was understandably angry, having just learned that not only had he not been invited onto the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Broxtowe, the programme had been recorded the previous evening, and broadcast live Ray then informed Mike Buchanan that he'd been told the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Ashfield, due to be held six days later, was to have as one of its themes what more political parties could do to attract women's votes.
And the presenter was to be female, Sarah Julian.

Mike Buchanan then contacted the (male) producer of the show to be informed that what Ray Barry had said was correct, but in addition the audience members for the Ashfield programme would all be women. Incensed by this, he made his thoughts on the matter known at the start of the programme, and also took the opportunity to criticise Gloria De Piero, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, who was sat next to him (on the other side was Helen Harrison, the Conservative candidate). There were 15 women in the audience.

At times Mike took opportunities to raise men's issues including genital mutilation, unemployment, preferencing of women for medical school places over the past 40 years (and the disastrous impact that's had on the NHS), suicide...

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