Tory cut killing UK’s only centre to stop Female Genital Mutilation is in line with Priti Patel’s behaviour
Irony: the posters behind Priti Patel in this image extol the virtues of ‘UK aid’ – but her idea of helping foreigners is sending them away to suffer genital torture, and her party’s is to cut funding to organisations working to stop it happening here.
Remember when This Site told you Priti Patel wanted to deport a girl so that she could be subjected to the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation (FGM)?
Maybe you thought I must be wrong. Maybe you thought that a UK government would never allow a human being to be put in danger of suffering torture to their private parts. I mean, we’re a civilised country, right?
Think again.
You may also have missed the announcement that the Conservative government has withdrawn its funding for the UK’s only centre dedicated to ensuring that FGM doesn’t happen in this country.
Oh yes – it does happen here.
The Tories are just making sure that there’s no support for any group dedicated to stopping it.
“Ending FGM will not happen if the centre closes down just five years after being set up by the government,” protested Leethen Bartholomew, who leads the National FGM Centre.
“We will not be there to protect the girls who need us. We know that FGM is still being practised in communities across England.
“There are still girls who are being cut and so will face a lifetime of physical and emotional pain. It is a hidden form of child abuse.”
Tories seem to love causing physical and emotional pain. Priti Patel more than most.
And now maybe you think that comment is uncalled-for. If you do, think again – and start judging these Tories by their actions.
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Fascist tories will hand the pittance they ‘saved” by refusing to fund an independent women’s organisation, over to their male cronies and claim ‘this money is being put to much better usage!
Fascist tories have never cared about women’s and girls’ fundamental human rights which is why the fascist tory boys have decided they will no longer even call for an end to the male instigated barbaric practice of FGM. Ask yourselves who will benefit? Not women and girls but certainly all the male cronies and countries which support FGM!