UK: Philip Davies MP: 'Political correctness is damaging men'

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'Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, found himself at the centre of a raging gender storm last week, when he suggested that men’s issues should be discussed in Parliament on International Men’s Day, November 19th.

Despite making an impassioned plea to the Backbench Business Committee last Tuesday – underscored by troubling new data on Thursday that showed a 40 per cent spike in male suicides for men in their 40s and record low educational achievement for white, working-class boys – his comments were met with unbridled ridicule from Labour’s Jess Philips.

Despite claims on the Labour website that Ms Philips, MP for Birmingham Yardley, “helps the poorest and most vulnerable in society,” she openly laughed and petulantly pulled faces while Davies spoke, then scoffed: “You’ll have to excuse me for laughing. As the only woman on this committee, it seems like every day to me is International Men’s Day.”

For many, Ms Philips’ sneering contempt of these serious – and increasingly fatal – men’s issues left a sour taste in the mouth.

Over centuries, working men built Britain and millions died in its wars, yet in 2015 men’s issues are laughed out of the House.'