Conservative Woman Platforms No Women

Back in 2017, a tedious and humourless being called Laura Perrins was briefly present in broadcast media, featured in papers like the Mail, and scored some notoriety for The Conservative Woman, the group blog which she had co-founded with Kathy Gyngell. But, as I predicted at the time, her fifteen minutes “will, thankfully, come to an end”. And so it came to pass.

Er, hang on a minute, there's a problem here ...

But The Conservative Woman, now simply TCW, continues to score a few clicks now and then, perhaps because it is heavily featured by the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog in their “Seen Elsewhere” section. Perhaps emboldened by the attention, TCW hosted an event last week in central London, with a suitably pretentious title.

“A Celebration of Dissent with TCW Defending Freedom, hosted by Mark Dolan” was promised at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham Street. Who would be in attendance? “With special guests Right Said Fred, James Delingpole, Sir Christoper Chope, Clare Craig, Calvin Robinson, Bob Moran, Professor Angus Dalgleish and Andrew Bridgen MP, the evening will shine a light on Covid 19 vaccine injuries, the government failings and the organised censorship behind them”. TCW would platform eight men and one woman.

And note the inability of any of those on that platform to interest media outlets that are not on the wacko fringe reinvented as “organised censorship”. But do go on. “It will celebrate the bravery of those dissenting scientists, doctors, vaccine injured, citizens and celebrities who've put their heads over the parapet, regardless of risk, to keep the public informed”. Yeah, right.

So it was a celebration of Anti-Vax wibblers and Covid denialists, which figures: Ms Perrins went full hatstand as the prospect of lockdown loomed large in March 2020. “Join these heroes and meet fellow dissenters, brought together by TCW for this morale-building evening of resistance. Doors open from 5 pm. There will be a cash bar open from 5 pm”. So was it popular?

“This is now a sold out event and we will be at theatre capacity. Please do not arrive without a ticket hoping to be allowed in”. Sounds impressive: the main auditorium at the Emmanuel Centre can seat “up to 1,000”. But when the photos came out, there was a problem. A woman problem.

... a no women problem, that is

Or perhaps that should have read “A no women problem”. Because there on stage were the Freds, disgraced and dishonest MP Andrew Bridgen, “Father” Calvin Robinson, Dolan, and, still wacko after all these years, James “saviour of Western civilisation” Delingpole. And not a woman in sight.

No Clare Craig, no comment. But we were treated to fringe padre Robinson telling anyone who would listen “The Conservative Woman event last night was full of hope … Turning the suffering that came out of Covid - vaccine injuries, lockdowns etc. - into joy … It was a full house, so many wonderful people telling their stories”. So many wackos trying to redefine reality.

Byline Times political editor Adam Bienkov tried to break it to the blokes gently. “Feels like there might be something missing from this ‘Conservative Woman’ event”. To which “Father” Calvin Robinson shot back “Not you making assumptions so you can virtue signal”. Robinson, an immodest being with much to be modest about, was, by doing that, virtue signalling.

He was telling the world that some women had been present, only not in the group photo he chose to lead with, and not, it seems, when he was on the platform. But, as Russell England noted, there was “Christopher Chope who blocked a bill to outlaw upskirting and blocked the use of parliament to celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage”. Very woman friendly. Or not.

The libertarian right all at sea once again. I’ll just leave that one there.

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