Misogyny plan's a sick joke

FUN, FEISTY AND FEARLESS

- Carole Malone

THIS government must think Britain’s women are as thick as they are. Shabana Mahmood this week declared violence against women a “national emergency” and launched a new scheme to tackle misogyny and sexual violence which she says will halve it in a decade.

And for that gargantuan task, Mahmood allocated the piddling sum of £20million.

Let’s put that into context — ministers are splashing out £570million resurrecting the Erasmus scheme which pays for thousands of British students to study abroad for a year and thousands more to come here with little or no benefit to the British people.

But when it comes to the rape and abuse of women, there’s just £20million in the pot, which says how serious the government is about the problem - ie not at all.

Part of this new scheme will train up teachers to lecture schoolboys on the perils of misogyny which is a total waste of time and money because it isn’t 11-year-old boys doing the raping and assaulting.