The Ukip treasurer, Stuart Wheeler, has been accused of being 'sexist' for having made certain remarks during a debate about the European Union's proposals to impose gender quotas in company boardrooms.
Mr Wheeler has been reported to have said that women are no where as good as men at games like chess, bridge and poker, while explaining his objections to the proposals. Another participant in the debate, Dr Claire Gerada, of the Royal College of General Practitioners promptly took exception and called Mr Wheeler a 'sexist'.
Dr Gerada is a typical high profile and political woman who sees any suggestion that women are not equal to men as objectionable. Given that she is a doctor, one would have thought that she'd fully appreciate that women are actually quite different from men, both physically and emotionally; sadly she does not. Mr Wheeler is perfectly correct in his statement as is proven by the fact that very few women are able to compete effectively with men in the games mentioned; one assumes that he used these as an indicator that women are not generally as effective as men in other areas, such as business management and politics. Why making a statement of "the bleedin' obvious" should be met with accusations of 'sexism' is a question that has yet to be answered. It is, perhaps, a simple case of repeating a mantra until it just becomes accepted as truth, regardless of its actual veracity.
Women such as Dr Gerada tend to be so blinkered and bigoted that arguing with them is worse than useless. They simply refuse to accept that men and women are, on average, different and have different interests and abilities. This is not to say that some women are not able to perform at the very highest levels in politics or business, but it is to say that far fewer women than men have the desire or skills necessary to do so. The imposition of quotas for the number of women in boardrooms would fly in the face of this simple truth.
Mr Wheeler is not a sexist, he is a realist but is being pilloried for disagreeing with the ludicrous left wing policies that some wish to foist upon us. If the lunatic proposals of the EU are adopted, it will spell the beginning of the end for European industry; they must be made to see the light.
