Godfrey Bloom

I protest the indignity of International Women’s Day. Instituted by the Socialist Party Of America in 1909, when even the West was not impermeable to revolutionary fervour, this Valentine’s day for the unloved and Mothers’ day for the childless has no place in our society of 2012. Of course, it comes as no surprise to me that the desperately arcane institutions of the European Union are adhering to this deeply offensive ritual - like some isolated Contemplative Community devoted to the rites of long discredited ideology. Why should people be singled out as if their sex made them vulnerable and worthy of some kind of encouragement? The Con-Dem coalition, with their proposed misconception of marriage, are only deepening my concearns that our elected and imposed leaders think the basic human condition is a new frontier for politicisation. As a member of the Womens’ Rights Committee and a true Liberal Conservative, I am torn between criticising the expense of the Parliament’s associated activities (see video below), and countering the misplaced sentimentality by calling for an ‘International Mens’ day.