FILIBUSTER. An unusual term, but once which keeps coming up, thanks to Philip Davies, the MP for Shipley.

His webpage says: “Your interests, not self-interest”, but actions speak louder than words, and all that.

At the end of last month, this mini Trump attempted to block a ten-minute rule bill in the House of Commons which was to protect victims of honour violence.

Tory MP Nusrat Gani was trying to highlight the plight of British Asian women being murdered in Pakistan and India by family members. She called for the term “honour-based violence” to be banned from official publications, as she said women in the UK were suffering because police were often reluctant to intervene in domestic violence cases involving Asian women for fear of being called racist.

But Philip Davies, famous for “filibustering”, or blocking a bill three years ago to counteract rogue landlords by speaking for hours, meaning Parliamentary time ran out, decided to oppose the bill.

More than 4,000 women were killed as a result of domestic violence worldwide last year. 900 have died in the UK in the last six years at the hands of men, the Femicide Census of December 2016 showed.

And honour violence and murder is a growing problem, which affects almost exclusively women.

However, Davies took issue with this. While saying “for the benefit of the morons on Twitter”, he opposed women suffering from honour-based violence, he took issue with the bill in that it didn’t refer to men too.

He got short shrift from his Commons colleagues as he attempted to filibuster the bill, on the grounds it didn’t specifically refer to the small number of male victims of honour violence, and his attempt failed, as the Bill goes on to a Second Reading in the Spring.

Davies, who for some reason unknown to anyone but himself, sits on the Women and Equalities Committee, and recently argued for the term “women” to be dropped from the title, as it’s apparently unfair to gay people.

The Pink News ridiculed him for that one, especially as he’s not got the best track record on gay rights, voting against gay marriage, for example, like several other Tory MPs who opposed single-sex marriage but are actually hiding away in the closet.

Davies is one of those very special misogynists who counters every argument for women’s rights by crying “what about men?” He’s not alone in this either, as comments on this column sometimes show.

Don’t hide your rampant hatred of women under the cloak of the “feminism has gone too far” brigade, Davies. Campaign for men’s rights, all you like, but I’ve got news for you. Men have enjoyed superior rights for millennia. Women only got the vote in this country 99 years ago this week, in fact. There’s an awful lot of catching up to do. Misogynists, while on the surface pretending they believe in equality and all that, have made feminism a dirty word, indicated that we’re all hysterical women – probably menstruating, or menopausal, or something – but the truth is, that they’re scared.

A “real man” is one who isn’t threatened by women trying to establish equal rights.