UK Feminista Challenge Ken Livingstone

@ken4london

Live in London? Want to hear your candidates for mayor speak about issues that affect women? Then you need to get on board with UK Feminista’s contact Ken challenge. UKFeminista have invited the London Mayoral candidates to their pre-election hustings at FEM11. So far both the Lib Dem and Green Party candidates have agreed to come down, but UK Feminista are holding out for the so far silent Ken and Boris.

Here are some of the statistics UK Feminista are hoping the candidates will address-

• Women in London are paid 22.4% less than men.
  
• Compared to the rest of the country, London has the lowest percentage of successful outcomes for violence against women offences: only 58 percent of cases are successful.
• Female MPs are outnumbered 4:1 in Parliament.
•  Approximately 100,000 women are raped each year, and just 6% of reported rapes end in a conviction.

So if you want to hear what Ken Livingstone has to say on these matters (a separate Boris challenge is to follow) send Ken this Tweet @ken4london Please take part in @UK_Feminista pre-election hustings at #fem11 on 12 Nov and tell us what you’ll do for women in London.

I am slightly disappointed they haven’t gone down the Kardashian route (I really cannot explain why I know about these people, osmosis maybe) and named the challenge Kontact Ken. I think it’s catchy. 

Kate

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