UK prime minister Teresa May to visit Africa to boost post-Brexit fortunes. So, when she's in Nigeria, will she be asking about The 10,000 Boys Kidnapped by Boko Haram, or just the Girls?

2018-08-27T18:03:57+00:00

What makes you think she'll ask about anything?

TheImpossible1 · 2018-08-27T18:22:19+00:00

I don't trust May and I never will. She's an evil woman.

thrway_1000 · 2018-08-27T19:18:16+00:00

azazelcrowley · 2018-08-27T17:00:47+00:00

She might ask about them, but will do nothing. Her advisors, if they are good (Which they aren't, not just on this issue, but electioneering in general, they seem a bit incompetent), will point out this is an uncontroversial opportunity to solidify the Conservative Party's claim to men issues, building on their previous actions of hosting the first international mens day in parliament, tolerating openly MRA MPs and candidates and defending them from witch hunts in wishy washy ways like "controversial" "starting a debate" "We don't necessarily agree with" and so on, and mentioning the boys crisis in education with some frequency (Albeit, being opposed to funding anything to actually deal with it, because tax cuts.).

I'd say that's a positive either way. If the Tories begin to push this thing more often to solidify their claim over voters swung by that issue, even if they do nothing about it, it gets the information into the mainstream.

I suspect they're aware of that. They're offering us the minimum they have to to gain our support. If/When Labour wises up and starts courting those voters too, it'll be an arms race between the two, but currently Labour is anti-male in a number of ways and hostile to reform, meaning the Tories have to do relatively little to flip this voting bloc to their side.

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