By Robin Jenkins: Swayne O’Pie has been rebuffed once in his bid to get Gloucestershire people on board with his campaign to improve the lot of men in Britain.
Last year he had a meeting in a Cheltenham pub lined up but, following complaints from women, it refused to let him stage the event there.
But that has not put the 68-year-old, who lives in Wotton-under-Edge and is the founder of The Society to Establish a Minister for Men, off.
He is keen to spread his message, that there should be a minister for men as well as for women, across the country and is targeting his home county.
If he can find a venue that will hold 50 to 60 people, he will give an initial talk he hopes would lead on to the formation of a Gloucestershire branch of his campaign.
It would meet regularly, supporting his bid to get the Government to make the ministerial appointment.
The retired lecturer says he has nothing against women but feels the balance to protect their needs has tipped too far. Men, he argues, are being discriminated against.
Being a father of three grown-up men, who has been divorced from his wife for many years, he says he knows a thing or two about what men need.
Last year he had a meeting in a Cheltenham pub lined up but, following complaints from women, it refused to let him stage the event there.But that has not put the 68-year-old, who lives in Wotton-under-Edge and is the founder of The Society to Establish a Minister for Men, off.
He is keen to spread his message, that there should be a minister for men as well as for women, across the country and is targeting his home county.
If he can find a venue that will hold 50 to 60 people, he will give an initial talk he hopes would lead on to the formation of a Gloucestershire branch of his campaign.
It would meet regularly, supporting his bid to get the Government to make the ministerial appointment.
The retired lecturer says he has nothing against women but feels the balance to protect their needs has tipped too far. Men, he argues, are being discriminated against.
Being a father of three grown-up men, who has been divorced from his wife for many years, he says he knows a thing or two about what men need.



