It is undeniable: the murder of a young women is tragic, as is the fate of any woman who has suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of a violent predator. But you would be forgiven for thinking the political reaction has been a tad overkill. Though there were 207 femicides in Britain last year, none were deserving of royal patronage. Nor were national movements cobbled together to do the unofficial bidding for the Labour Party. Nor was it common practice for 6pm curfews to be called for all men, by politicians on the left, occupying a moral high ground so remote, it is accessible only by a real stretch of the imagination.
But all of this did happen. In keeping with the tradition of risk, established by the public’s cheer for COVID regulations, politicians would have you believe that one social group is in grave danger from another social group, who stalk by night in the long grass of suburbia. Recollecting the identity politics of Black Lives Matter and the protection of certain minority groups over the vilification of others.
This fomenting of public hysteria around personal tragedy also reveals a political establishment committed to making someone else’s misfortune their own consolation. Take for example, Jess Philips, MP, standing at the political pulpits last week reading out the names of British women murdered by men, as a macabre battlecry to British feminism. Inspiring Baroness Jones to call for a 6pm curfew for all men, in spectacular ignorance of the fact that most women killed by men in this country die at the hands of a partner or ex, and very often inside their own homes.
The next risk-manager to this male-oriented witch hunt, the First Minister of Wales, suggested that the temporary local curfew of men could be the solution to making women feel safer at night. Though he later retracted his statement, Mark Drayford’s tribute to womankind is not without irony. His son is serving an eight year prison sentence for a violent and prolonged sexual attack...<<Read The Full Article Here>>>....